Gone

In this chapters of the book, Margo and Quentin finish their crazy adventure. They go to Sea World and then they returned to their houses at 5:00 or so. Later at school, Margo doesn't show up, at first everyone thought it was the other times Margo had ran away, they thought she would come back. But, a few days later, Quentin starts to find clues he thinks Margo left for him. Ben and Radar helped him look around Margo's room for clues she might have left. They found a poetry book "Song of Myself" by Walt Whitman with lots of blue highlights and one phrase highlighted in green:

Unscrew the locks from the doors!

Unscrew the doors themselves from their jambs!

Quentin couldn't understand. Lacey will go to prom with Ben, who later figures out the phrase were instructions.

"She let go then, but kept looking at me, taking step after step backward.She raised her eyebrows finally, and smiled, and I believed the smile. I watched her climb up a tree and then lift herself onto the roof outside of her second-floor bedroom window. She jimmied her window open and crawled inside" (Green 81) 

 Poor Quentin, if only he knew that was going to be the last time he saw Margo before she disappeared. This quote shows how much Quentin cares about Margo, and how much he is in love with her. We didn't stop looking at her until she was inside her bedroom. I wish Margo realized how much Quentin loved her, maybe, if she had, she wouldn't have escaped. It would be really nice to have someone love you the way Quentin loves Margo. I think that if Quentin would have known that was the last time he would see Margo maybe he would have told her how he feels.

"It became a weekend of reading, or trying to see her in the fragments of the poem she'd left for me. I could never get anywhere with the lines, but i kept thinking about them anyway, because I didn't want to disappoint her. She wanted me to play out the string, to find the place where she had stopped and was waiting for me, to follow the bread crumb trail until it dead-ended into her" (Green 117)

Quentin must be tired! All that reading but still he doesn't know what it meant. This happened before Ben realized that the phrase was actually something Margo was telling Quentin what to do. He was really losing his mind trying to figure out what it meant, he read the whole poem like a hundred times. I wouldn't like to feel this way because you feel like you will never find a n answer to what you are questioning. If I was in his position, I think I would have had a headache.


"Now we're stressed out" is a fragment of the song "Stressed Out" by Twenty One Pilots.
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_uzF-Tdw0g That's the link to the full song.






This book is so catching! Once you start reading it, you can't stop. I was wrong in my last prediction because I thought that Quentin and his friends were going to be part of Margo's group, but that didn't happened because Margo was gone. But Lacey started spending tim with Ben since they're going to prom together. I think that in the next chapters of the book, Quentin will unscrew Margo's door from its jambs and he will find something that will lead to another clue. If thats the las clue, I think he's gonna find her, if it's not the last clue, I think he will keep looking until he finds something.
 

Agloe

Finally! Quentin (Q, as Margo used to call him) discovered where Margo is, but lets not get ahead of ourselves. Before that happened, Q, Radar, Ben and Lacey decide to go to the mini mall again, to look for more clues they think Margo left, where they run into Gus (the guard from Sun Trust building) and he was with two other guys, it turns out they had always explored places like the mini mall with Margo who always wrote something in her black notebook. On Friday Q finished looking for Margo in every pseudivision (a term Q's mom uses to describe places like paper towns) there was in Florida and there was no sign of her. Later Radar and Q went to the mini mall again and this time they found a map. They pinpointed the places that had been pinpointed before but some of the locations were ripped off so their names couldn't be read. The night before graduation Q looked the zip code near the Catskill Park in New York in Omnictionary (a website that Radar uses to look things up), he found a response that said:

Agloe, New York, is a fictitious village created by the Esso company in the early 1930s and inserted into tourist maps as a copyright trap, or paper town.

He looked up the full article and it said that there was only 1 building in Agloe and the population was zero, but in an anonymous user comment said:

fyi, whoever Edits this-the Population of agloe Will actually be One until may 29th at Noon.

That's Margo's capitalization, looks like Q has finally found her. The next day, Q's graduation gift results to be a car, so he, Radar, Ben and Lacey skip graduation to go on a 23 hours road trip to find Margo before she's gone for good. No body has clothes exept their dresses and gowns, the only things they have are half of a sneakers, 212 beers that were for graduation, printed directions to Agloe, wintergreen gum, a pencil, tissue, $35, a BP card, and more stuff from Lacey's purse. During the first 3 hours, Ben has wanted to pee but they won't stop until hour 4, so they continue their trip with just 4 stops during the whole it and Ben wanting to pee.

"Margo was not a miracle. She was not an adventure. She was not a precious thing. She was a girl" (Green 199) 

Excuse me? Of course Margo could've never be a miracle or, even worst, a THING! She's just a girl,a person, just like everyone else in tis world, even though we don't always realize that. There are people that are so much like you, but there are others who are completely different as well. But here's the thing, different does NOT mean worst. Yes, there are people who hurt other people, but they're still people. No matter what you do, even if it's good or bad, you are a person. It was about time that Q realized that Margo was a common girl. I'm not saying Q is bad for saying she was a miracle, actually, I'm glad he finally realized she wasn't one. Maybe meeting her was a miracle, but not her. I wouldn't like for someone to think of me as a miracle, even though I would like of someone thought that meeting me was a miracle. I wish Margo knew this.

"This was the first time in my life that so many things would never happen again" (Green 228)

Applause for Q! So few words, yet so meaningful. Reading this book, I've realized that every character has something important to say, something significant and needed. This quote happened the last day of school when Quentin was leaving his school and he realized that he would never do many things that he did in high school,like waiting for Radar and Ben to finish band practice, or see what a mess his locker was. This quote showed me that you have to cherish every moment because one day, you will never get to do that again. Never. So you have to appreciate every moment and the people that lived them with you, before that moment, becomes a memory. It's like Margo said, you don't wanna look back to your life and say, I graduated from school and college and got perfect grades and live a perfect but boring life, you want to look back and find precious moments you could share, because those moments, are the ones that will always live with you.

I'm so excited to know what happens next in the going-to-Agloe-to-find-Margo road trip! It seems like this group of friends is willing to do anything for their dear Margo, from eating out of a BP card to pass all speed limits. Maybe supporting Ben wanting to pee seemed the hardest part of their trip, but who knows, maybe worst things are around the corner. Now, what do I predict will happen next? Well, since I will finish with the book soon, I predict that after the long trip to Agloe, they arrive soon enough before they loose Margo. Q speaks with her and convinces her to go back with him and maybe they'll even end together as I had already predicted in my previous blogs. Lacey will talk to her too and Margo will forget her for not telling about Jase's relationship with Becca. Well, the only way to find out, is to keep reading!

Miracles

In this chapters of the book everything starts to change. The revenge night began, Margo Roth Spiegelman and Quentin Jacobsen are reunited after many years, in the middle of a school night. Margo asks Quentin to drive her all around Orlando to do eleven things, Quentin has doubts about accepting but, after all, he agreed to help his childhood friend in this crazy adventure. Margo's Boyfriend had been cheating on her with her best friend, and Lacey didn't told Margo about it. Now, Margo will avenge with some of her punishments (which include dead fish and graffitis). Quentin will get even with Chuck by doing some hair removal. All that craziness, without getting caught. finally, they accomplish 10 things out of the 11, but Quentin gets nervous when he finds out what the last one is, going to Sea World.

" "Here's what's not beautiful about it: from here, you can't see the rust or the cracked paint or whatever, but you can tell what the place really is. You see how fake it all is. It's not even hard enough to be made out of plastic. It's a paper town. I mean look a t it, Q: look at all those cul-de-sacs, those streets that turn in on themselves, all the houses that were built to fall apart. All those paper people living in their paper houses, burning the future to stay warm." (Green 57) 

 WOW! That is so true! People nowadays just live fake lives hoping everything is perfect to fit in a perfect society. They just worry about how other people think of them but they can't realize that what really matters its outside their paper worlds. Those persons need that the strongest wind blows their paper lives away so they realize what they really have with them even when the rest is gone. Margo is one of the few people that has seen the world as it is, real. As Margo says, everything is paper-thin and paper- frail, including the people. Everybody just wants to own as much as possible to feel important, to "fit in".

 

"Margo nodded then, and I walked over to Chuck. I wrapped my hand in my T-shirt, as she'd told me to do, leaned forward, and- as softly as I could- pressed my finger against his forehead and then quickly wiped away the Veet. With it came every last hair that had been Chuck Parson's right eyebrow" (Green 66)

OUCH! Poor Chuck, that must have hurt. Well, at least now he won't make the girls refuse to dance with Quentin. And that's not all. Margo's punishments can be much worst than taking your eyebrow. She took away Becca and Jase's love by telling Becca's dad about their secret love in the basement, I don't think that went well. This quote shows that Margo is not the type of person you wanna mess with. While reading this I realized how we react to this kind of stuff. Probably we just stop being friends with that person that hurt us, but removing his/her eyebrow, that's something only Margo would do.

As the story continues, it gets more interesting. Margo's and Quentin's adventure is almost finished, but if we're talking about Margo, you never know what comes next. If the story keeps going like this, Margi being with Quentin, even though they hadn't spoke to each other in years, maybe Margo will spend more time with Quentin. I predict that when their adventure is over, everything will be different, maybe Quentin and his friends, Ben and Radar, will be part of Margo's group and they will make Jase, Becca, Lacey and Chuck regret what they did. I'm guessing, that at the end of the book, Quentin and Margo will be together as a couple. At the end, this isn't a book you can predict a lot because it has lots of twists that you would never expect.