The world is made up of opposites and differences. In the novel paper towns by john green, the use of opposites helped me to understand the themes: appearance can be deceiving, the importance of identity and the bad affects of obsession this is shown through a variety of quotes in the text.
A quote from the book that shows appearance can be deceiving is when Q is in Margo’s room looking for clues that link to where she is, he then finds her music collection and says “But I was distracted by Margo’s music collection. She liked everything I could have never imagined her listening to all these records.” This shows how much q doesn’t actually know Margo he has built this image of her in his mind of how he wants her to be and is surprised when
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At one point in the text Margo tells q everything uglier up close” by saying this she’s trying to tell Q that she is not everything that he thinks she is. She furthers this by also saying “from here, you can’t see the rust or the cracked paint or whatever, but you can tell what the place really is.” This scene in paper towns shows us the obsession Q has for Margo. He has built the image of a perfect girl, and insists upon only seeing her, and not the way she is in reality. We see this through different scenes where he defends Margo, not allowing others to taint his image of her, and when margo says that everything is uglier up close, he says “not you”. Q’s obsession distorts his ability to see reality. This is one of the downsides to obsession. Q’s obsession distorts his ability to see reality, this is a downside to obsession, and offers a lesson to teenage readers about the importance of seeing past the perfect images of people we can make in our minds of people we care about. The novel paper towns teach us that everyone has flaws. in conclusion paper towns teaches us about fake images of people, and how important identity really is. And the importance of knowing that everyone is human and everyone has flaws. It also teaches us
The two themes are never judging people by their looks, but by their personality and everybody needs a friend. Looks deceive people everyday. The only thing that matters though is their personality. You should never judge people by their looks, but by the personality is one possible theme. A way it is shown in the book is
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This is seen even in the very beginning of the poem in the first fragment. The first few stanzas of the poem describe the amada’s reflection in the mirror that the narrator admires every morning “al despertar”. This image of the amada in the mirror is almost as if the narrator is attempting to freeze his lover in an attempt to understand her “enigmas” because, in the mirror, they become “cosas tan claras”. Bermúdezz explains that the amada in the mirror is a flat image, easy for the narrator to comprehend, and she is able to recognise that she is simply “someone else’s object of affection” (332).
Your prediction on Peter and Howard make logical sense. As a reader, we come to sense a pattern in books and stories in general. The protagonist suffers to make it out on top and the antagonists eventually falls in humiliation. The Fountainhead has yet to display any evidence that Rand is trying to break this mold. And isn't that ironic?
Some times I wish I could go on a wild wild crazy adventure make my life a lot more interesting then it already is, I’m not so sure that’s the same for 12 year old Ryan. In the book Wild River by P.J Petersen. In my theme book project I will identify a important theme in my action packed adventure book Wild River. Bum Bum Bum 2 boys on river can they beat it as Ryan and his brother Tanner go off a waterfall and every thing goes wrong. Ryan and tanner are like poler opposites Ryan likes video games and tanner likes it outside but tanner always pools Ryan along.
“The Fountainhead”, was one of Ayn Rand’s top selling novels. This novel represented the presence and use of morals. She presented Howard Roark, a struggling architect as an ordinary man who faces many obstacles but never chooses the easy way out. Roark is described to be committed to his work, for being an altruist, and for being independent. His morals are based on his inspiration to his work, and he believes, for survival, people should follow their instincts and their minds.
Tom Robinson is a mockingbird in that he doesn't do one thing wrong. All he does is provide help to the people he interacts with. That is exactly how he got in trouble. Tom Robinson was helping Mayella with some chores. He was humming a melody and when he chopped up the dresser drawers.
Margo becomes angry that they found since she did not want to be
Nick Martel Mrs. Schmit English 11 November 4, 2017 Doubt What is doubt? According to google “a feeling of uncertainty or lack of conviction.” Father Flynn is accused of a sexual relationship with a young boy named Donald, a young African american boy new to the school.
They will become infatuated with the thought of this person so much so that they forget there is nothing actually special about that person. In John Green’s novel Paper Towns, Quentin Jacobson becomes so captivated by the mystery of Margo Roth Spiegelman that he forgets that she is simply an ordinary girl. At
He sees her as perfect as she already is. He sort of symbolizes how we should view others and find perfection in people's
For example, it teaches Liesel to be selfless. “ There was a trace of a grin on her face as she and Rudy Steiner, her best friend, handed out the pieces of bread on the road.” (Zusak 440). Although times are hard for not only the Hubermann’s but Germany as a whole, Liesel demonstrates the same selflessness that Hans does. When he sees an old Jew falling down constantly and close to death.
It provide us with a shared set of rights and wrongs on which our social norm depends for existence. Also, it guides a person through the stages of life and show them the way of
After Marlowe enters into Geiger’s house where he finds Carmen drugged and posing for nude photos, he notices upon looking at her eyes “the dark slate color of the iris had devoured the pupil. They were mad eyes. She seemed to be unconscious, but she didn’t have the pose of unconsciousness”(Chandler 35). Clearly, Carmen brought this troublesome situation upon herself, since Marlowe can physically see the mischief in her eyes, despite her apparent state of unconsciousness. Marlowe, whose initial role is to save the innocent, now needs to consider how to rescue Carmen, who obviously displays corruption, which Marlowe immediately notices solely by looking at her eyes.
In this book report I will talk about the book “The outsiders” written by S.E. Hinton, I will do a review of the story, the point of view, theme, symbols and my opinion about this book I really liked to read for the English class. The story is about a boy named Ponyboy who lived in a small town in Texas with his two brothers Darry and Sodapop were a gang war was taking place between two different social class people: The Socs and the Greasers. Ponyboy will learn the consequences bad acts can bring to your life in the middle of a gang war. The greasers were a middle class and not so social kind of people who liked to get in trouble and The other gang The Socs were a most of them a high class or middle-high class group of people who where they went they will always go in groups of like three or four people.