Friday, April 9, 2010

Paper Towns

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9 comments:

  1. In Paper Towns they talk normal I feel like. Normal meaning they don't tend to use slag hardly at all, or barley to the point I don't notice it. They often talk about crazy and weird things but not too much slag. Paper Towns is set in Orlando, Florida. Where it takes place really represents Paper Towns very good! When Q and Margo break into Sea World, The tower that looks over the whole town, the “paper houses and towns”. Also they wouldn’t have gone on any of those adventures if the setting was not in Orlando.

    -D.H

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  2. The jargon in Paper Towns is nothing special, or really all that different than how teenagers talk today. Nobody has any special slang talk or anything, everyone pretty much talks like normal people, well, besides Quentin's parents. I'd say they're the most different in the book when they're talking, because they always use huge 'smart' words. Since they're psychiatrists, they are always looking into things way too deeply than needed, usually, according to Q.

    The story is set in Orlando, Florida. I think the setting is represented extremely good. It describes their surroundings really well, as when Margo and Q are in Sea World, you can actually imagine being there in real life, even if you've never seen it before. It even describes them being able to see all of the attractions and sights such as Disney World, when they look out of a window in a very large building at the top floor.

    J.O.

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  3. Examples of jargon used in the novel, Paper Towns, are abbreviations and acronyms such as RHAPAW for Ben's car. RHAPAW stands for "Rode Hard And Put Away Wet". The novel is set in Orlando, Florida. I think that the author represented the region where the story takes place very well. In the very beginning, Margo and Q are driving around Orlando on their little mission and the author mentions attractions such as SeaWorld, the SunTrust Building, local highways, and of course, Disney World. The author, John Green, also mentions streets and neighborhoods that actually exist in Orlando. The dialect is also familiar to Orlando. This novel has been wonderful so far. It's very suspenseful, and I find it hard to set down.

    -KLS

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  4. There are select few jargon uses in Paper Towns, like honeybunny, which is used by Ben to describe attractive women. Paper towns is also a jargon word, describing a town with only one side to it, with no real flavor. Its just your basic town. I find it odd that the setting is Orlando, where I would picture myself as anything but a paper town. But Margo makes it feel like it really is a ordinary town, with not much going on. The region is represented fairly well, with mention of warmer weather. They also go to Disney Land and Sea World. Overall, the region is represented just as I would imagine it, but I think I imagine it a lot less... normal.

    A.K.

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  5. Yes I was very satisfied with the ending of Paper Towns! The end defiantly changed my mind on the book. Now I come to think of it was written different, not like your normal book you read. Also I feel like the story line and plot was a very odd topic to write about so I think that’s what makes this book so good. Is that it’s very different and well written and has many different meanings to things. For example paper towns I wouldn’t think that’s what a paper town really was. The last few pages 301 and 302 were amazing!! I felt like everything that was said was pretty inspiration. It talks about how Q views life as grass and Margo views life like strings. I thought that was awesome and really cool to think about. I would believe it if Paper Towns got a gateway award because it was written extremely well, kept you on your toes, and theatric.

    -D.H

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  6. I was satisfied with the ending. I just wish it would've been more Disney-like. I think this book was chosen as a recipient of the Gateway Award for many reasons. It was full of suspense and things you would never expect. Not only was "Paper Towns" a good read, but it also thought me things, such as not to judge people and to be careful about what you say to some people because they may take it differently than what you actually mean.

    KLS

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  7. The ending of Paper towns was just short of satisfactory. I find that I did not like the way the book ended, but that may be because I might have misunderstood how it end though too. The thing that I find most that could have made this a Gateway book, is because it really does get a point across about the similarities of different places, creating the whole sensation of a Paper town.

    A.K.

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  8. Paper Towns by John Green was published on October 16th, 2008. I could give this mystery novel 3 stars. A pro about this novel is it’s written differently, the plot and hole idea of the book is pretty interesting. It gets you think about how you judge people, look at towns differently and about life in general. A con on the other hand would have to be that its whole conflict I thought was just kind of boring. Paper Towns is about a boy Q who loves this girl Margo. She runs away from these “paper towns” so Q goes after her with his two best friends and Margo’s best friend too. The structure of Paper Towns is told from one point of view which is first person. The theme for this novel would be “Don’t judge a book by it’s over”. Just because someone looks like they would be one way doesn’t necessarily mean there anything like that. My all time favorite quote in Paper Towns is “Nothing happens like you imagine it will.”

    -D.H !

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  9. I feel that Paper Towns was a fairly excellent book overall. I felt that it gave both sides of most thoughts in the book, like showing one character who loves prom, vs the other character who absolutely despises the idea. I feel as if the whole book had most ideas put like this, where it showed both sides of things. It really shows its climax too when Q starts to realize what the difference is between his image of Margo and what she really is. As I said before though, the book was a good read, and I definitely would give it a 4/5 stars. I give a 4 because it just seemed to drag on at certain parts, like the whole road trip.

    A.K.

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