Novel Reading blog- 11/30/08

Now I will resume with part one of Paper Towns, The Strings. In chapter 5, after they leave the flowers for Karin, they go to Jase's huge Spanish style mansion in a very rich subdivision. Margo takes a fish and writes "MS's love for you lies with the fishes" and throws it through a huge window causing it to break, while she spray painted a huge M on the Wall. They had a great security system so when she broke the window, a deafening siren sounded and the house lit up like christmas. Police sirens were in the distance so they gunned it out of there and made their way to Lacy Pemberton's house, a good friend of Margo's. Lacey's house is in a condo above a nice sushi store, so they have to park somewhere where there is no streetlight. The two of them find her black SUV and Margo has to jimmy the car lock to get the car open. After a minute they are in the car and they both lift up the drivers seat, throw the last of the 3 catfish underneath the seat, let the seat crash down only to hear the sound of exploding catfish guts while Margo closed the door. Q went on top of the car and spray painted a big M on it. Never had he been a fan of vandalism, but he felt it was justice and could not imagine how bad the car would smell the next morning. For part 9, they go to downtown Orlando. Surprisingly, downtown Orlando is not like most downtowns because it mainly consists of only a few skyscrapers owned by banks and insurance companies It's the kind of downtown that becomes absolutely deserted at night and on the weekends, except for a few nightclubs half filled with the desperate. They drive to the SunTrust Building. Margo tells Q that they are there to check on their progress, but Q is hesitant because he thinks that there are too many guards and what not. Fortunately, Margo knows the security man whose name is Gus. They race up to the top of the building to find themselves in the Conference room with the best view of the city. Q says that everything looks perfect from far away, how things get ugly up close. But, Margo goes off saying that it's fake and how it's a paper town with paper people and a mania for owning things. Sitting in the minivan, Margo lets Q decide who to take punishment on next for part ten. Q picks Chuck Parson, a jock who was a bully to everyone except the social elite. Margo asked him if he remembered the Crown School of Dance. Q goes on in his head to explain what it was. In sixth grade, a bunch of kids including Margo and Chuck were forced by their parents to take ballroom dancing lessons at the Crown School of Humiliation, Degradation, and Dance. And how it worked was the boys would stand on one side and the girls would stand on the other and then when the teacher told the boys to, they would walk over to the girls and the boy would say, "May I have his dance?" and the girl would say, "You may." Girls weren't allowed to say no. But one day Chuck convinced every single girl to say no to Q. He has been forever embarrased till this day. They snuck in through his window which was relatively low to the ground. Then, they put veet on his right eye brow and vaseline in his hand. Q proceded to slather vaseline on all doorknobs, windows, and surfaces of his room. As he softly wiped away the veet, Chuck woke up in time just to have Margo slam a comforter on his head while Chuck blindly screamed, "MAMA! DAD! ROBBERY ROBBERY!." After the flew out the window, they sprinted to the minivan. In the minivan, Margo tells Q that the last part, part 11, is breaking into SeaWorld. Q freaks out at this but Margo tells him to think of it as visiting SeaWorld in the middle of the night for free. Margo planned their entrance, they were to go across the highway, through a moat, and into SeaWorld.  As they pulled themselves out of the moat, Q noticed Margo's achilles tendon flex and then he saw the snake bite her. He wretched it free from her ankle and started sucking the blood from where the bite was. Margo yelled to stop because she saw that it was only a garter snake. They both thought of it to be an insult to their ninja like ways. When they get into SeaWorld, an old security guard catches them, but Margo sweet talks their way out of him calling the police. He leaves them alone. Margo tells Q how the pleasure isn't in doing things, its in planning things because they never turn out to be as great as you expect them to be. Then, the speakers turned to a song called "Stars fell on Alabama" and the two danced for a while before they went to a 7-eleven to buy dish towels to dry up the inside of the mini-van. When they were at home in the driveway, Margo told Q "I. Will. Miss. Hanging. Out. With. You." Q told her that she didn't have to but she gave him a smile climbed the tree to her bedroom window and went away.

This is the end of part one, The Strings.