Paper Towns by John Green

I am currently reading the book Paper Towns by John Green, it is a book about a boy named Quentin who is the regular normal teenager, dealing with normal problems at that age, and just getting on with life and it’s obstacles, but once a girl named Margo Roth Spielgelman sees him one night in front of his window it changes his life. It’s because of the fact that Quentin is in love with Margo so he feels obligated to anything she does, and that night Quetin does things you would have never thought he would do, and these things are only benefitting Margo. What I’m going to be talking about is how this book is so similar to the book Looking for Alaska, possibly because it’s the same author that wrote it meaning the same style of writing.

            One reason why these books are very similar is the fact that these books both contain characters that fawn over one girl in the book in this case it’s Margo for Quentin and Alaska for Miles in “Looking for Alaska”. They fawn over them for similar reasons too, both girls in each book are very spontaneous for example Margo takes Quentin mysteriously and leads him to do a lot of things such as vandalizing and trespassing the territory of her enemies, and then the next day she disappears all of a sudden. Alaska is just spontaneous in very strange ways she just disappears near the end. She also does bad things or is rebellious to authority and I found this very similar to Margo because she is clearly going against authority if she does thing like this. They are also very random too, like one day they’ll be friendly like Margo going to Quentin’s house in the night. Also when Alaska kisses Miles fro no reason even though she has a boyfriend and then the next day she’ll disappear.

            Another reason why these books are very similar is that both main characters are put in very similar plots. They both like a girl a lot and they both go out of their way sometimes, or  do things that they never would have done just so they can please the girl. The girls in the book control their lives to much, because they take advantage of the fact that they can control Quentin and Miles. At some point in the story both girls disappear one goes to some unknown place with clues leading to them, and when leaves and then dies in car crash. The plots all have similar story lines in the end.

In conclusion these books are very similar because the main characters are in love with one specific girl and they have similar plots that fold out in the book. These two characters experience journeys and many problems led by the girls that they like. They basically control the book overall and the main character follow what’s laid out for them.