False Perceptions In Paper Towns By John Green
The theme of the book “Paper Towns” is False Perceptions, false perceptions are people who aren’t always who they appear to be or who you expect them to be.
Intro:
Almost everyone is trying to satisfy society’s standards of excellence but they lose themselves on the way. Following and maintaining a perfect status or wanting to have a faultless outfit every day or dating the captain of the football team for popularity is all categorized under a false perception that is shown to people to judge upon. Happiness doesn’t come from all the compliments that are given to someone; to be truly in a state of happiness, one must find themselves aside from people’s criteria’s. In the book Paper Towns, by John Green, the main characters judge each other based on what they expected the other to be. Margo Roth Speignleman and Quintin Jacobsen (Q) were both judged based on what people see or have heard about them.
Argument 1:
Context:
Margo was known to be a very adventurous girl; in the beginning of the book, Margo was planning an adventure and Q joined in. Margo and Q stopped at a local Wal-Mart to gather …show more content…
She assumed that he was a boring two-dimensional static individual. She thought he was flat; this was an assumption that she made based on what she had expected him to be like. Margo was surprised by the end of the night where he proved her wrong and went on the adventure and did bold things. He did all the daring things and he “turned out to be real.” That night, she realized that Q wasn’t a paperboy, he wasn’t a thin piece of materials packed together, he had a soul and he had his own place in life. This quote correlates to the theme because Margo had judged him based on what she saw not what she knew. Our world is full of false perceptions about everyone and everything and an always individual believes what him or her may see or want to see until they are shown the actual
Intro:
Almost everyone is trying to satisfy society’s standards of excellence but they lose themselves on the way. Following and maintaining a perfect status or wanting to have a faultless outfit every day or dating the captain of the football team for popularity is all categorized under a false perception that is shown to people to judge upon. Happiness doesn’t come from all the compliments that are given to someone; to be truly in a state of happiness, one must find themselves aside from people’s criteria’s. In the book Paper Towns, by John Green, the main characters judge each other based on what they expected the other to be. Margo Roth Speignleman and Quintin Jacobsen (Q) were both judged based on what people see or have heard about them.
Argument 1:
Context:
Margo was known to be a very adventurous girl; in the beginning of the book, Margo was planning an adventure and Q joined in. Margo and Q stopped at a local Wal-Mart to gather …show more content…
She assumed that he was a boring two-dimensional static individual. She thought he was flat; this was an assumption that she made based on what she had expected him to be like. Margo was surprised by the end of the night where he proved her wrong and went on the adventure and did bold things. He did all the daring things and he “turned out to be real.” That night, she realized that Q wasn’t a paperboy, he wasn’t a thin piece of materials packed together, he had a soul and he had his own place in life. This quote correlates to the theme because Margo had judged him based on what she saw not what she knew. Our world is full of false perceptions about everyone and everything and an always individual believes what him or her may see or want to see until they are shown the actual