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PAPER TOWNS

1. Find me! Instructions: The host will pick a random name to create a group consisting 3 members Create a group name Find all the words in the “ Paper towns ” One member at a time on finding 1 word The winner gets a prize and the loser gets a punishment.

2. Paper Towns B y John Green Lorie Helaine V. Dela Cruz Kyle C. Ibañez Presenters

3. Objectives At the end of the discussion you will be able to: Identify the author and his works, Familiarize with the novel Paper Towns, and Demonstrate understanding behind the story of Paper Towns. 3

4. Paper Towns B y John Green

5. 5 Paper Towns Genre

6. 6 Paper Towns Detective/Mystery

7. Detective/Mystery Describe the Genre and Title of the literary work, background of the author? Genre : Mystery/Detective - Mystery- the disappearance of Margo. - Detective- finding clues/ hints. 7

8. 8 Paper Towns Title

9. Paper Towns Title: Paper Towns by John Green -paper towns means are settlements that appear on maps but do not actually exist.  9

10. Paper Towns What does the title of “Paper Towns ” all about? The story centering on Quentin and his enigmatic neighbor Margo, who loved mysteries so much she became one. After taking him on an all-night adventure through their hometown, Margo suddenly disappears—leaving behind cryptic clues for Quentin to decipher. Ultimately, to track down Margo, Quentin must find a deeper understanding of true friendship—and true love. 10

11. 11 Paper Towns Background of the author

12. Background of the author John Michael Green August 24th 1977 in Indianapolis, Indiana. John Green is a New York Times best-selling author. Green’s writes young adult fiction. 12

13. Paper Towns Young adult fiction (YA) is a category of fiction written for readers from 12 to 18 years of age. While the genre is targeted at adolescents, approximately half of YA readers are adults. 13

14. Background of the author Sarah Urist Green A n American author, YouTube content creator, podcaster and co-creator of educational series Crash Course. The movie adaptation of Paper Towns was released in Summer 2015. 14

15. Background of the author He is the sole author of these books: The Fault in Our Stars, Looking for Alaska, An Abundance of Katherine’s, Paper Towns( October 16, 2008 by Dutton Books) 15

16. Background of the author Interesting Facts Due to the pressure it was putting on him, John Green took a year away from social media in 2018. Green suffers from obsessive-compulsive disorder. 16

17. 17 Paper Towns The Setting

18. Setting Main Setting: Suburban, Orlando, Florida Jefferson Park Playground High school Abandoned mall Agloe New York 18

19. 19 Paper Towns The Characters and their development

20. Characters Quentin Jacobsen- is a teenage boy who always have plans and goals in life. He is ready to graduate and go off to college at Duke. He is a genuine, normal, somewhat nerdy, but essentially well-adjusted kid. He does well in school, has good friends, and seems to be on track for a successful life. Protagonist Round 20

21. Characters Margo Roth Spiegelman - she is known as a mysterious, popular and beautiful teenage girl in their school she also love to explore her life by doing things that are exciting but also a little dangerous. Margo didn't want to be found. She needed to leave in order to live the life she wants to live and to know her self because for her, a lot of people know her but she herself does not know herself. Dynamic 21

22. Characters Ben & Marcus- is one of Quentin’s Best Friends. They are also like Quentin they never skip class and has good grades. But unlike Ben and Quentin, Marcus has a girlfriend. Static 22

23. Characters Angela –Ben’s girlfriend. They seem to have a comfortable, mature relationship with each other. Static 23

24. Characters Lacey Pemberton - is one of Margo’s best friend who didn’t knew about the affair of Jase and Becca. Static 24

25. Characters Jase & Becca- they are both close to Margo, Jase is Margo’s Boyfriend and Becca is Margo’s Friend, they lie to Margo by having a secret affair. Static 25

26. Characters Chuck Parson- is Jase best friend who new about the affair of Jase and Becca. Flat 26

27. Other Characters 27 Mr. and Mrs. Jacobsen Mr. and Mrs. Spiegelman Ruthie Spiegelman Detective Otis Warren Flat

28. 28 Paper Towns Synopsis/Plot

29. Introduction The novel begins in a subdivision called Jefferson Park where Quentin Jacobsen and Margo Roth Spiegelman, both young children, discover the rotting corpse of Robert Joyner, a divorced man who has committed suicide. The novel then flashes forward to Quentin and Margo who have grown apart since the incident. Margo then shows up at Quentin's bedroom windowsill in the middle of a random night with an offer to join her on her revenge spree. They prank every one who has done wrong from her ex boyfriend to the school bully. Quentin believes their friendship may form again until he wakes up the next morning to find Margo has disappeared, leaving behind a trail of clues. 29

30. Rising Action Quentin and his friends, Radar and Ben, juggle the stress of graduation and final exams while collecting clues which they believe Margo has left behind for them. Margo has left behind a Walt Whitman poem containing a clue that leads Quentin to an abandoned mini mall. The mini mall contains clues to what he believes are Margo's whereabouts. Quentin also considers the possibility that Margo had killed herself and wants him to find her. Lastly, he finds a map of the United States, pin pointing New York on the map. 30

31. Climax Quentin discovers that the map of New York lines up with the pin holes he found in the wall of the abandoned mini mall. One of the points lines up exactly with a "paper town" called Agloe, New York. He searches Agloe, New York on an online website named " Omnictionary ". It appears that someone posted stating the population will actually be one until May 29th at noon. Quentin is convinced it is Margo who has posted and he sets off on a journey to find her with his friends and Margo's closest friend, Lacey. 31

32. Falling Action Quentin, Ben, Lacey and Radar all skip their high school graduation to take a nineteen hour trip to find Margo in Agloe . They only have twenty four hours to travel all the way from Orlando, Florida to Agloe , New York and find Margo. They have a near death experience while on their journey and experience many other difficulties along the way. Once the friends arrive in Agloe , they discover Margo in a mysterious, abandoned barn. She seems to be a different person than who she once was. 32

33. Resolution Margo is upset that her friends have come to find her, while her friends are confused about who she truly is. It is then that they realize that not everyone is how you would imagine them to be. Now that they have all graduated and are free to live the life they have always dreamed of, Margo decides she will fulfill her dream of traveling the world and being who she was meant to be. Quentin and Margo decide that their relationship will be nothing more than friends, although they say goodbye with a kiss. 33

34. 34 Paper Towns Literary theory viewed from the story

35. Literary viewed from the story Formalism/New Criticism Involves a close reading Interested in the work’s setting, characters, symbols, and point of view.  “The clues. The stupid clues. But you can never follow them anywhere, trust me.” – Margo’s mother. “Unscrew the locks from the doors! Unscrew the doors themselves from their jambs” 35

36. 36 Paper Towns The relevance of the literary work from today’s society

37. 37 The relevance of the literary work from today’s society The relevance of the literary work to today’s society is that a lot of teenagers now are like Margo but 2.0 because Margo is a rebel girl but she always think before doing something unlike the teenagers now a days they don’t think before doing something that can harm them or their family and they do things just for fun.

38. 38 The relevance of the literary work from today’s society Quentin, they have plans and dreams that makes their family proud but some how Quentin’s mom is a supportive parent and understand what ever Quentin’s decision unlike the other parents now a days they push their kids to study harder even if their kids are doing great in school.

39. 39 Paper Towns Your viewpoint about the story

40. 40 View point about the story How did it affect you as a reader/viewer? “I didn’t really look down and think about how everything was made of paper. I looked down and thought about how I was made of paper. I was the flimsy-foldable person, not everyone else. People love the idea of a paper girl. They always have. And the worst thing is that I loved it, too. I cultivated it; you know?” – M argo

41. View point about the story What were the relatable lines or scenes you could relate to? My favorite passage is, "The way I figure it, everyone gets a miracle. Like, I will probably never be struck by lightning, or win a Nobel Prize or become the dictator of a small nation in the Pacific Islands, or contract terminal ear cancer, or spontaneously combust. But if you consider all the unlikely things together, at least one of them will probably happen to each of us. I could have seen it rain frogs. I could have stepped foot on Mars. I could have been eaten by a whale. I could have married the queen of England or survived months at sea. But my miracle was different. My miracle was this: out of all the houses in all the subdivisions in all of Florida, I ended up living next door to Margo Roth Spiegelman." (Green, Prologue) 41

42. 42 Paper Towns Your major takeaway from the literary work

43. M a jor takeaway from the literary work Being your own person and not living up to expectations Get out of your comfort zone True friendship is irreplaceable 43

44. Quote of the day “When did we see each other face-to-face? Not until you saw into my cracks and I saw into yours. Before that, we were just looking at ideas of each other, like looking at your window shade but never seeing inside. But once the vessel cracks, the light can get in. The light can get out.” ― John Green, Paper Towns 44

45. 45 Paper Towns Reference https://myflixer.to/watch-movie/paper-towns-17270.5301739 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Green?fbclid=IwAR2IiTGglAw7IxKl0F1rJAFw5SWGToaAmOkbwgVYD2OMI7WUpDhq6BGpZcg https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1981261/?fbclid=IwAR0sHXrM78F7_Q7rqHCDbdmPyhX47qGlQ_LKEfkN4DXqy58DU9_DVZkdyH0

46. Thank you for listening Lorie Helaine V. Dela Cruz Kyle C. Ibañez