Paper Towns
By: Kymberly Coolidge
Summary
Exposition
- Margo Roth Spiegelman
- Quentin
- Ben (friend)
- Radar (friend)
- Lexi (friend)
- Quentin's Parents
Margo- Margo is adventurous and mysterious. She doesn't think about her actions or take other peoples feelings into perspective. She is a good planner, and provider for herself
Quentin- He is shy and nervous. He is a nice boy who is kind to others. His character becomes very brave as the plot develops.
Settings
- Miami
- Agloe
Theme
Agloe
Agloe's Story
Otto G. Lindberg and Ernest Alpers decided to put a paper town on their map for their company General Drafting in the 1930s. The pair combined their initials O. G. L. A. and E. to create a fictional town called Agloe. According to Snejana Farbero they placed the town on a map of upstate New York, near Roscoe. A few years later a company called Rand McNally printed their own upstate New York map, and included Agloe on it. When the Rand McNally company was questioned for copyright they told officials that there was a building in that location called the Agloe General Store that they figured to be named after the location. The general store happened to be inspired by the fake town, which the store's owner had seen on a map at an Esso gas station (Farbero 2014). The creation of this building sucessfully turned a "paper town" into a real town.
Direct Quote
-John Green {Paper Towns}
Sources Cited
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- "John Green New York Times Bestselling Author." John Green New York Times Bestselling Author. vlogbrothers events, n.d. Web. 12 Jan. 2015. <http://johngreenbooks.com/paper-towns/>.
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Farberov, Snejana. "Mystery of a town wiped off the map by Google: How the fake Agloe, New York, conceived as a 'copyright trap' by cartographers turned into a real hamlet before vanishing forever Read more: http://ww." Daily Mail. Daily Mail, n.d. Web. 24 Mar. 2014. <http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2592500/Mystery-town-wiped-map-Google-How-fake-Agloe-New-York-conceived-copyright-trap-cartographers-turned-real-hamlet-vanishing-forever.html>.