Papertowns Character Study
Paper Towns Character Essay
Just like every other normal seventeen year old. Quentin Jacobson lives an uneventful life. Quentin or “Q” is the main character of Paper Towns by John Green. Quentin is an old friend of Margo Spiegelman, although their lives have gone separate ways. His best friends Ben and Radar, stick by him through the difficult times of his life. Q is level-headed, he plans carefully for the future despite his lack of punctuality. Quentin can be absorbed and obsessive but in general he is seen as a fundamentally good and confident person. Quentin is level-headed and obsessive at times. He imagines Margo in every situation he comes across. “It must have been like this for Margo, too. With all the planning she’d done, she must have known she was leaving, and even she couldn’t have been totally immune to the feeling. She’d had good days here. And on the last day, the bad days become so hard to recall, because one way or another she had made a life here, just as I had.”(227) This scene says a lot about both Quentin’s and Margo’s character. Q can’t help but imagine himself in Margo’s shoes. This trait of his, may be considered slightly obsessive, but he only does this to figure out what goes on in Margo’s head. Quentin is undeniably infatuated with Margo and that fact is never doubted through his journey to find her. Quentin is level-headed yet obsessive. He kept going and searching for Margo until he found her. “She was alive for one more day at least, she was alive. I had focused on her whereabouts for so long in an attempt to keep me from obsessively wondering whether she was alive that I had no idea how terrified I’d been until now, but oh, my God. She was alive.”(236) Quentin knows what he’s looking for and his motivation to find her never faltered. He let Margo Spiegelman’s absence control his life. This did however heighten his desire to find Margo, and he succeeded. Throughout the journey of finding Margo, Q’s feelings towards Margo is
Just like every other normal seventeen year old. Quentin Jacobson lives an uneventful life. Quentin or “Q” is the main character of Paper Towns by John Green. Quentin is an old friend of Margo Spiegelman, although their lives have gone separate ways. His best friends Ben and Radar, stick by him through the difficult times of his life. Q is level-headed, he plans carefully for the future despite his lack of punctuality. Quentin can be absorbed and obsessive but in general he is seen as a fundamentally good and confident person. Quentin is level-headed and obsessive at times. He imagines Margo in every situation he comes across. “It must have been like this for Margo, too. With all the planning she’d done, she must have known she was leaving, and even she couldn’t have been totally immune to the feeling. She’d had good days here. And on the last day, the bad days become so hard to recall, because one way or another she had made a life here, just as I had.”(227) This scene says a lot about both Quentin’s and Margo’s character. Q can’t help but imagine himself in Margo’s shoes. This trait of his, may be considered slightly obsessive, but he only does this to figure out what goes on in Margo’s head. Quentin is undeniably infatuated with Margo and that fact is never doubted through his journey to find her. Quentin is level-headed yet obsessive. He kept going and searching for Margo until he found her. “She was alive for one more day at least, she was alive. I had focused on her whereabouts for so long in an attempt to keep me from obsessively wondering whether she was alive that I had no idea how terrified I’d been until now, but oh, my God. She was alive.”(236) Quentin knows what he’s looking for and his motivation to find her never faltered. He let Margo Spiegelman’s absence control his life. This did however heighten his desire to find Margo, and he succeeded. Throughout the journey of finding Margo, Q’s feelings towards Margo is