Paper Towns 9/29- 10/3

Pages: 158 out of 305
Prompt: Analyze the writing techniques used by the author. Explain the affect the technique has on the writing. Style and Mood

                           Green's Writing Style in Paper Towns 

    In this particular book the author John Green seems to develop a kind of romance/comedy throughout his writing. He seems to have the habit of including a lot of high level vocabulary that connects to the certain character that is in the book. For example in Paper Towns the character Quentin Jacobson talks like a normal teenager but he seems to use high school level vocabulary. It seems that in the middle of his paragraphs or in some pages he transitions genres. During the beginning of the book the reader would feel like this would be a romance/comedy but after the disappearance of another character Margo he starts to make the genre mysterious. The genre mystery is seen in his writing because he plucks out certain pieces of famous literature in order for it to connect to the disappearance of Margo. During this transition period he references a lot of books in the middle of the plot by using poetry from Walt Whitman and including some quotes from The Great Gatsby.

                                       Writing Style Continued.....

     Since I'm not very familiar with John Green's style I would imagine that he tries to make a character personality that readers could relate to. The first few chapters show that the other main character Margo is very adventurous and that she likes to create mysteries even though she is a mystery herself. I for an instance can relate to the other character Quentin who has the urge of staying out of trouble but will always tune in for an adventurous depending on how much a person persuades him. I liked how Green includes sentences or even quotes that makes the reader think or sometimes it foreshadows events that will eventually happen later in the book. When Margo says "the town was paper but the memories were not" and this statement makes the character Quentin infer that he is the one who needs to find her. He has a flashback of when Margo says "I picked you and then you picked me back." I didn't realize until later that this was foreshadowing how Quentin will be the one who finds her in the end.

                                      The Mood of the Reader

  In the section where I am right now completely changed my mood towards the book because Green transitions his use of word choice. I just recently finished the part where Quentin goes to random pseudo divisions in the city of Orlando, Florida and he believes that Margo is buried beneath one of the trees. The idea of going to these pseudo divisions comes from the highlighted parts of one of Walt Whitman's poems. Quentin believes that it is a suicide note which made me feel a bit scared now that there is a possibility of Margo being dead. His technique of transitions not only changed the genre of the book but also the feelings of the reader. The technique he uses had a huge affect on the writing because it creates a darker tone and a scarier atmosphere for the reader. I myself felt that this book would be one of those happily ever after stories where two souls meet and they eventually live a happy life. The author's use of connecting death with famous pieces of literature created a suspenseful feeling and made me infer that this book will not end happily.

This week I included a picture of the book that included the poem which is frequently mentioned in the story line. I mentioned before that Margo seems to have left a sort of like suicide note in Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman. The found poem that she made has let to chaos in the plot now that it has changed the tone, the mood of the reader, and even the genre. After reading Margo's found poem it had changed my mood from humor to suspense.

This week I will comment on Jenna, Steven, and Stanley's Blogs.