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Thursday, March 7, 2013

reader response:paper towns

  The book "Paper Towns" tells amazing tale of a computer dork and a popular exciting girl coming together on a journey. Margo is a your average popular girl. Or so we think. She goes out to parties, has a boyfriend on the football team and her popular friends. Q computer geek and his two computer friends Ben and Radar. Q has been crushing on Margo since forever but never really had the courage to talk to her even though their in classes and neighbors. Until one night Margo jumps into Q's bedroom and needs to borrow his car and go on a quest or some errands for Margo. They leave fishes at her best friends stoop breaks windows and exposes he boyfriend who is cheating  with her best friend. Next day she dissapears and this is not rare she has run away many times but this time shes 18 and schools gonna end soon and she leaves clues for Q and he's on his own trying to find her. What's Margo trying to say this time?

  Margo is a little bit attention seeking I think. When her and Q were doing "errands" she said "I couldn't taken someone else but I didn't I took you you should be happy." It's like she took pity on him cause she thought he was a loser or a geek and had no life and that was the most exciting thing that's ever happened to him, and maybe it was but you still don't say that to a person especially if you value another persons feelings. Also she has ran away so many times so it seems she wants attention from someone.

  I wonder why Margo did choose Q she could have just stayed out of trouble just comforted her boyfriend about cheating , and break up with him, told Becca she didn't wanna be friends cause she was cheating with her boyfriend. But she had to go the attention seeking way and run away. Why do people look for that way? Do they really need someone to pay attention to them every single second of the day?

  This book I think really defines what it is to be growing up and how teenagers need attention sometimes and they are complex and misunderstood. And they are going to disovbey  what they are told simply because it's like it's programmed into them.

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