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...