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Man Vs. Society Depicted In Paper Towns By John Green
In the book Paper Towns by John Green, the setting takes place in the subdivision, Jefferson Park, Orlando Florida. The enviornment is suburban because they live outside of the city. Later on into the story when margo disapears the main setting takes place in different pseudodivisions. The main building was Osprey, the minimall. Quentin and others travel from Florida to New York taking stops in different states so the setting is always changing. The time period was reativly close to today’s, Quentin and Margo are two young teenagers living life like anyone else would today. Margo takes advantage of the world around her and decides to go explore, causeing Quentin to chase after her.

3. Man vs. society is the main conflict in the story. When Margo dissapears, Quentin feels that it is his oblogation to find her. With Margo leaving clues Quentin looks up and down for her. He looks in every abandonded building
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self in another common conflict in Paper Towns. Quentin relly likes Margo, when he finds her clues they are harder everytime. He has to fight with himself to not give up and find her. His friends and family are teling him to give up looking for her because she will come back on her own but he does not let other people stop him. Another example of man vs. man is again when quentin finds the harder clues. Q has to ask himself if he really knows Margo Roth Speigleman. She starts becomeing a different person from what Q has beceived her to be. The last main conflict is Man vs. nature. Quentin finds all the possible abdondoned bulidings in Orlando Florida and checks every single one. The minimall left some clues about Margo spending nights there before. Quentin believes that if Margo could spend a couple nights there alone he could. He has to go against his fears of lizards and rats crawling around and man himself up. The other bulidings he has to check by himself or with a friend. Q has to go through fields, woods, and buildings just to find a single

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