Grenade: By Bruno Mars Easy come, easy go That's just how you live, oh Take, take, take it all But you never give Should've known you was trouble From the first kiss Had your eyes wide open Why were they open? [Pre-Chorus:] Gave you all I had And you tossed it in the trash You tossed it in the trash, you did To give me all your love is all I ever asked 'Cause what you don't understand is... [Chorus:] I'd catch a grenade for you (yeah, yeah, yeah) Throw my hand on a blade for you (yeah, yeah, yeah) I'd jump in front of a train for you (yeah, yeah, yeah) You know I'd do anything for you (yeah, yeah, yeah) Oh, I would go through all this pain Take a bullet straight through my brain Yes, I would die for you, baby But you won't do the same | Margo comes and goes in and out of Q's life. Like when she leaves him when they were little and jumps back in before graduation, then suddenly disappears the next day. Margo takes things from him, like his dignity and his pride. Q should've known Margo was trouble since they were little kids and Quentin had a crush on her. He should have seen how big of a problem she would be Quentin gave Margo all he had when they hung out, but she never appreciated it. She never appreciated him as a friend and she used him as a part of her mystery attention scheme. She doesn't understand what Quentin would do for her Quentin would travel and search for clues for weeks on end looking for you and wanting you back. He would suffer all the risks and challenges along the way just to protect and find you. He would go through a ton of pain and crisis, missing his prom and graduation just to help find you, his best friend who clearly doesn't understand what he went all through. She takes him for granted when he shows up at the barn, she doesn't appreciate all that he has done for her and all because of their friendship and their love relationship forming. |
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There are many symbols portrayed throughout the novel. Green uses these symbols in the title of the chapters to clearly state them. Strings are generally known as binding things together, holding things together, and keeping things in tact. This is symbolic to the first part of the novel because this shows the setting by creating an act of suicide. This can represent how when one commits suicide or goes missing, it can be said that their strings were all connected. "Maybe all the strings inside him broke..." The grass can be used to symbolize each piece of grass represents a different clue in finding Margo. They all serve a single purpose to interconnect an entire lawn, much like all the clues that Margo left for Q to figure out along his journey to essentially lead him into the bigger picture. One of the other symbols is the "vessel". Basically a vessel is strong and are containers that are used to protect from water. They are symbolizing the vehicle that transports Q to Margo along his quest. The water surrounding the vessel symbolizes the struggles that Q must endure and force off while pushing through his quest to find his friend. There are many hidden symbols used to represent important ideas throughout this book, that John Green incorporates to make the reader thing more carefully and dig deeper. Paper Town... The meaning goes through various meanings throughout the story. It is the most important piece of the book and so important the title refers back to the phrase stated by Margo several times throughout the novel. The first time "paper town" comes up is in the beginning of the story when Margo explains to Q how the town they live in (Orlando) is a paper town. Margo is referring to it being flimsy and all planned out. When they are on top of the SunTrust building looking down at their town, she states how the town looks like it is made out of origami. When Margo tells Q about how Orlando is a paper town, she is foreshadowing to her first clue to help Q when she goes missing. Later on, Q learns of another meaning behind the phrase. It refers to the pseudovision, subdivisions that have been abandoned but still exist on maps, but not entirely in real life. When Quentin realizes what paper towns means, it leads him further in the quest of finding Margo. Q later on learns of another meaning behind paper towns. He starts to understand of an idea that mapmakers do, where they insert fake town onto the maps to ensure copyright traps or paper towns. Someone did this with Agloe, the town that Margo is hiding in. Which leads Q to the town to help find her. Quentin soon realizes that the more he is informed on paper towns, the more his opinion on Margo changes. At the beginning of the novel, Q sees Margo as pretty one-dimensional. As the book progresses, as he learns more about paper towns, he learns more about Margos character. He thinks of her being more complex and as a human being and finally at the end of the book, he sees her for who she truly is, a regular human being. " All those paper people living in their paper houses, burning the future to stay warm... According to How To Read Lit like a Professor, every story is a quest. The Paper Towns has multiple quests within the book, however the book as a whole is one giant quest. The quest must first start out with a quester, since the story is told from Quentins perspective, he is the quester. The second element of a quest is a place to go. Throughout Quentin's quest he travels many places. From an abandoned minimall to multiple pseudovisions, Quentin travels all over the place until he finally ends up in Agloe, New York. The third element of a quest is obviously a stated reason for the quest, which in this novel is clear to see, to find Margo. The fourth element of a quest is the challenges/trials the quester must face along the way. Q goes through extreme measures and challenges in order to reach his final destination of New York. In multiple times in the book, Q finds himself absolutely stable and right back to square one. He is without any clues and is nowhere close to finding Margo which gets him frustrated at times. Causing inner conflict and challenges within his quest. He has a lot of troubles with family and friends, meanwhile getting in fights with people and misses the event he was most looking forward to, Prom. He faces extreme challenges when figuring out where the next clue is and what it means, leaving him confused and crazy. The fifth element of a quest is the real reason stated by Foster, is self-knowledge. Q finds a lot about who Margo is along his quest, however he discovers that he is strong and braver than he thought he was. |
John GreenJohn Michael Green is an author of young adult fiction, YouTube video blogger (vlogger), historian and creator of online educational videos. He won the 2006 Printz award for his debut novel, Looking For Alaska his most recent novel, The Fault in our Stars debuted at number 1 on The New York Times best seller list in January 2012.] In 2014 Green was included in Time magazine's list of the 100 most influential people in the world. |