Margo gets bit by a snake, leading Quentin to try to suck out the poison. In the book: Margo and Quentin break into Sea World, the only theme park Margo says she’s never broken into. He’s right-but now there’s just enough to make it relevant and also help find Margo.
In the movie: “There’s significantly less textual analysis of Walt Whitman in the movie,” Green said in his April video.
Despite his best efforts to discern the answer, Quentin also doesn't know why Ben is his friend at all (I loved that guy!) All he knows is that these are his friends who would support and sacrifice for him, which makes him question the terms of his relationship with Margo and her self centered attention getting.In the book: Margo’s Woody Guthrie poster on the back of her curtains leads to a song called Walt Whitman’s Niece, which leads them to highlighted text in the poem “Songs of Myself” in Whitman’s Leaves of Grass, which Ben finds wedged between two yearbooks in Margo’s room. Quentin has no idea why Dartmouth bound Radar would forgo his high school graduation ceremony and almost assuredly having sex that night to drive cross country in search of one who Quentin deems to be one of the planet's most shallow people. It's a long drive from Orlando to Agloe, New York and Radar's games to pass the time-meta physical eye spy, and the awesome 'That guy is a Gigolo'-reveal that it is not the particular object of the game that the players become educated about or endowed to as they ask questions and try to learn what is in someone else's mind, rather it is the players that learn so much about themselves through their speculation and guessing. It's on a road trip to find Margo (so much of this book takes place in a mini-van, I'm amazed at Green's creativity considering his choice of primary setting) that we discover Paper Towns isn't about Margo. She has some serious issues and serious problems that need to be dealt with and probably isn't a good idea (or person) for Quentin or anyone else to be in love with in her present condition, should she still be alive. At first I interpreted her ideas as 'spoiled-ass, rich, self-entitled suburban white kid complaining about lack of depth in her life as only a spoiled-ass, rich, self-entitled suburban white kid can.' I wasn't exactly wrong but-while the book never directly makes mention of the fact, we come to see that Margo isn't okay.
Humor is certainly the most prevalent facet of his writing but almost secretly spread through three-hundred pages is an equal amount poignancy concerning all that Margo would deem 'paper': the two-dimensional paper boys and paper girls she knows and the life she's led with no real substance other than do what you're told and follow this mold to success.
Green made an ass out of me multiple times as I loudly laughed out loud more than once on the train.
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