The novel Paper Towns is written in first person point of view. When writing this novel Green uses language that young adults are familiar with, because its in point of view of a teenager. Green uses many examples of figurative language. It makes the reader very attentive because you feel as though he understands what teenagers are going through.
Metaphor - "When all the string inside him broke" (Green, 8)
The meaning is, people don't have strings inside them that snap and snap until the person can't handle it. What it means is, we have relationships with people and when these relationships break a string inside our mind snaps causing us to slowly lose the amount of mental stability we have.
Simile - “That’s always seemed so ridiculous to me, that people would want to be around someone because they’re pretty. It’s like picking your breakfast cereals based on color instead of taste." (Green, 57)
It's a simile because it's comparing the idea of wanting to be around a person because of their looks, and deciding what cereal you prefer because of the type of box that is used.
Hyperbole - “The clock was always punishing, but feel like I was closer to unraveling the knots made time seem to stop entirely on Tuesday” (Green, 200)
In this quote, Green is showing the over exaggerations teenagers use. He's showing how dramatic his characters really are, proving them to be just another normal teenager.
My favorite passage is, "The way I figure it, everyone gets a miracle. Like, I will probably never be struck by lightning, or win a Nobel Prize
or become the dictator of a small nation in the Pacific Islands, or contract terminal ear cancer, or spontaneously combust. But if you consider all the unlikely things together, at least one of them will probably happen to each of us. I could have seen it rain frogs. I could have stepped foot on Mars. I could have been eaten by a whale. I could have married the queen of England or survived months at sea. But my miracle was different. My miracle was this: out of all the houses in all the subdivisions in all of Florida, I ended up living next door to Margo Roth Spiegelman." (Green, Prologue)
The reason this is my favorite passage is because, through all the miracles Quentin could imagine happening to him, or the miracles that could happen the one he's so thankful actually happened was that he lived next door to Margo Roth Spiegelman. Quentin has been in love with the Margo he thought was who she was for as long as he could remember. But throughout the story he realizes who she actually and is really in love with the real Margo as well. I find it incredible because nobody usually loves the you that you appear, and the you, you really are.
Metaphor - "When all the string inside him broke" (Green, 8)
The meaning is, people don't have strings inside them that snap and snap until the person can't handle it. What it means is, we have relationships with people and when these relationships break a string inside our mind snaps causing us to slowly lose the amount of mental stability we have.
Simile - “That’s always seemed so ridiculous to me, that people would want to be around someone because they’re pretty. It’s like picking your breakfast cereals based on color instead of taste." (Green, 57)
It's a simile because it's comparing the idea of wanting to be around a person because of their looks, and deciding what cereal you prefer because of the type of box that is used.
Hyperbole - “The clock was always punishing, but feel like I was closer to unraveling the knots made time seem to stop entirely on Tuesday” (Green, 200)
In this quote, Green is showing the over exaggerations teenagers use. He's showing how dramatic his characters really are, proving them to be just another normal teenager.
My favorite passage is, "The way I figure it, everyone gets a miracle. Like, I will probably never be struck by lightning, or win a Nobel Prize
or become the dictator of a small nation in the Pacific Islands, or contract terminal ear cancer, or spontaneously combust. But if you consider all the unlikely things together, at least one of them will probably happen to each of us. I could have seen it rain frogs. I could have stepped foot on Mars. I could have been eaten by a whale. I could have married the queen of England or survived months at sea. But my miracle was different. My miracle was this: out of all the houses in all the subdivisions in all of Florida, I ended up living next door to Margo Roth Spiegelman." (Green, Prologue)
The reason this is my favorite passage is because, through all the miracles Quentin could imagine happening to him, or the miracles that could happen the one he's so thankful actually happened was that he lived next door to Margo Roth Spiegelman. Quentin has been in love with the Margo he thought was who she was for as long as he could remember. But throughout the story he realizes who she actually and is really in love with the real Margo as well. I find it incredible because nobody usually loves the you that you appear, and the you, you really are.