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
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