Paper Towns
By: John Green
Theme
Characterization/ Setting
"My heart is really pounding," I said.
"That's how you know your really having fun." Margo said.
"YOU WILL GO TO THE PAPER TOWNS AND YOU WILL NEVER COME BACK."
Quentin- tall, scrawny, smart, reclusive
"What a treacherous thing to believe that a person is more than a person."
"At some point you gotta stop looking up at the sky, or one of these days you'll look back down and see that you floated away, too."
Present time
Orlando, Florida
First Person Point of View
"It was all here-my whole world, and I could see just by walking around a building."
Simile
Simile
"These kids, they're like tied-down helium balloons." said the detective.This explains how the detective feels about Margo's disappearance.
"Talking to a drunk person was like talking to an extremely happy, severely brain-damaged three year old."
Metaphor
"The town was paper, but the memories were not."