I am an avid book reader. My friends had told me to read John Green. As a result I read some his stories(Looking for Alaska, The fault in our stars), and I thought him to be not such a great writer and quite sentimental. However one book of his actually impacted me. The book Paper Towns. This is a story of a Teenager Margo, her friends Quentin. Margo is a woman who wants to live life her own way not bound by society. She wants every moment if hr life to be one she remembers all through out her life. She sees everything as made out of paper. Implying that everything is plastic and will fall. According to her every one has strings attached to something. She wants to cut off her strings and be free. Quentin, on the other hand is person who lives his life as dedicated by society. And also he is in love with Margo. This is seen when travels all over the country to look for Margo using the clues she left. In the end Quentin, asks Margo to stay with him, but she wants to explore the world and hopes that their paths cross once again.
" Here's what's not beautiful about it: from here, you can't see the rust or the cracked paint or whatever, but you can tell what the place really is. You can see how fake it all is. It's not even hard enough to be made out of plastic. It's a paper town. I mean, look at it, Q: look at all those culs-de-sac, those streets that turn in on themselves, all the houses that were built to fall apart. All those paper people living in their paper houses, burning the future to stay warm. All the paper kids drinking beer some bum bought for them at the paper convenience store. Everyone demented with the mania of owning things. All the things paper-thin and paper-frail. And all the people, too. I've lived here for eighteen years and I have never once in my life come across anyone who cares about anything that matters."
This book is a stark reminder of how many of us waste our life in pursuit of money and do not enjoy our everyday life. When we are young we do what are parents want us and what society thinks what is right and wrong. That is we live our life's as dictated by other and do not do what our heart tells us. This is a life wasted
One ought to live a life that he or she remembers and spends that time with someone he loves. It tells us the message that not to live a life as dictated by others and in pursuit of money and temporary fame. We should live every moment of her life without worries and do something so great that society remembers us for generations to come.
" Did you know that for pretty much the entire history of the human species, the average life span was less than thirty years? You could count on ten years or so of real adulthood, right? There was no planning No time for plannning. No time for a future. But then the life spans started getting longer, and people started having more and more future. And now life has become the future. Every moment of your life is lived for the future--you go to high school so you can go to college so you can get a good job so you can get a nice house so you can afford to send your kids to college so they can get a good job so they can get a nice house so they can afford to send their kids to college."
Thank you
