#184 paper towns (part 2)

so i finished the book today

and i loved it.

(do not read on, if you want to read the book. which you should, because it was a good book. and should totally be made into a movie.)

i loved how in the beginning it was lighter and easy to get into

but then i got into

more deeper issues.

i love how he discusses how we cannot truly become other people

and truly know them

that we more or less see our own reflections of people.

rather than the person themselves.

john green not only brings this to light with Margo

and how everyone has their own versions of Margo

but even with Q, how he wants his friends to care about what he cares about (which is Margo)

but Radar tells him that people are their own people.

i also love how he named the main, i guess, object of this book

(because i think she is more of an object in this book than subject, because of the fact that she is a mystery to others. and the fact that characters in the book, like Q, do things because of her though she is not necessarily there. and people do not really know her, but have their own 'Margo' view/idea for themselves. does that make her an object? i don't know, but it just doesn't feel right for her to be a subject.)

Margo Roth Spiegelman

because Spiegelman is a German word for mirror maker

"and Margo is the Spiegelman of Paper Towns, because when people look at her they don't see anything that is essentially true about Margo, what they see is some fun house mirror reflection of themselves." John Green

i thought that was really interesting.

i also love how their are many different covers of Paper Towns

with many different 'Margo'-s

representing the point above

that people all see their own reflections of Margo

but none of which is the true Margo

(the copy I have is the one not of her face, because that's the Australian version)

though the ending did leave me hanging a little bit

because of the fact that Margo did not definitively leave

but Q and Margo both turned back to each other

so immediately after I'd finished I thought perhaps

Q decided to go with Margo

or that they stayed together in the paper town

but after reading into it more

it is definite that Margo did go own her own afterwards

because Q valued the future

but Margo valued the future as being a series of nows.

i want to go buy and read his other books now :D

♥