Novel Paper Towns Reading blog- 11/26/08

As noted from a previous blog post, I am reading the novel Paper Towns by one of my favorite authors, John Green. 

     For a recap, the book is about a boy named Quentin Jacobsen who has lived next to Margo Roth Spiegelman in the same Orlando subdivision since they were very young. As children, they played together, until one day when they were nine. That day, Margo and Quentin found a body in a nearby park. Neither of them knew this man, Robert Joyner, who killed himself in the park that the two were playing at. This changed their relationship. Now Margo and Quentin are high school seniors. They still live next door to each other, and Quentin still adores Margo and thinks that she is amazing/gorgeous, but they don't really talk. Margo is the pretty and popular one who is very adventurous while Quentin hangs out with the bandees and has a bright future. One night, Margo climbs through his window and takes him on an adventure, consisting of pranks on the people who betrayed Margo through all her live/popularity, and takes Quentin along to have some fun. 

The book is divided into 3 sections: The Strings(chp: 1-9), The Grass(chp: 10-20), and The Vessel(is broken into hours and then when they reach their destination, Agloe).

The Strings.

This section is only about the night of pranking which consists of 11 separate pranks. First, They go to the 7-eleven and buy: 3 whole Catfish, wrapped separately, Veet, Vaseline, six-pack mountain dew, one dozen tulips, one bottle of water, tissues, one can of blue spray paint. Next, they go to walmart to buy "the club" which locks a steering wheel in place. When they are at the store, Margo blows an air horn and a manager comes up. He mistakes Q for Margo's younger brother which makes him mad, and Margo says that they are a happy couple which makes the manager stop flirting with her. When they leave, they head to Becca Arlington's house. Margo doesn't like her because Becca stole her ex-boyfriend Jase Worthington from her and he was also at her house that night. Margo proceeds to Jase's car and puts the club on the steering wheel of his Lexus. Then, Margo makes Q call their house so that Becca's dad answer's the phone and tells his dad that his daughter and jase were having sex in his basement. This got her dad to go downstairs and yell at them. They hide behind bushes next to the window of the basement for when Jase runs out. Q manages to snap a picture of him making an escape to his car. Then Margo climbs through the window to take his clothes in case he decided to return to get them. On their way out, Q puts a catfish in her closet and Margo spray paints a giant M on their wall and they take off to Karin's  house, where Margo leaves the tulips on her doorstep to apologize for how she said horrible things to her when she delivered the news to Margo about Becca and Jase.