Paper Towns by John Green

Summary:

Quentin Jaobsen is a normal teenage boy who fate just happens to place as a neighbor to Margo Roth Spiegelmen. She is a popular, rebellious, crazy, and famed for her genious pranks and dissapearences and Quentin is totally in love with her. After she shows up one night at his window and they go on a crazy all-night journey for revenge on some of Margo's ex-friends she suddenly dissapears again. But this time Quentin thinks something bad might have happened. He follows the clues she left behind for him and ends up tracking her down in some made-up city (also known as a paper town) Agloe. She left a note saying she would leave Agloe at noon the next day and the drive is approximately 24 hours so Quentin must skip graduation and ride across the country to try to make it to Agloe before she leaves. With the help of his three best friends he makes it just in time and finds her in a forgotten barn. In the end, although she won't return home with them she agrees to keep in touch and they part ways, her fixing things with her family, and him realizing things will never happen between them.

What was your personal reaction to this reading selection?

I thought this book was pretty fun and very interesting. The whole idea of this girl getting this guy to be some dangerous, rule breaking, rebel is pretty cool. Also just the plot was very different  in the way it portrayed teens although I'm not so sure that it is realistic but maybe thats just because I don't hang out with those type of people or because I'm not old enough to have experienced that yet, being only fifteen.

What do you believe the author’s intent was, and what patterns of organization did you observe?

I think the authors intent was just to give people an entertaining story to read, something that would peak their interest in the beginning and give them feelings of suspense for what would happen to one of the main characters. The pattern of organization I observed was chronological as it told the story as a timeline of events, as things happened.