In the final part, “The Vessel,” Q learns a third meaning of “paper towns,” this weird cartographic phenomena wherein mapmakers will insert fake places (called copyright traps or paper towns) onto their maps to make sure no one is copying their maps. These abandoned subdivisions are pretty common in Florida. In the second part, “The Grass,” Q discovers a new meaning for “paper towns.” He learns that they can refer to subdivisions that were started and then abandoned-subdivisions that exist on paper but not (entirely) in real life. She’s doing a lot of things that night that he misreads, and this is one of them. But of course what Margo’s REALLY doing by using this phrase is giving Q a clue. In the first part, “The Strings,” Margo and Q use the phrase “paper town” to refer to Orlando, and Margo calls it a “paper town” because it’s flimsy and planned-from above, Orlando looks very much like a city that someone built out of origami or something. The phrase “Paper Towns” is used in three different ways in the three different parts of the novel. Q: Which cover of Paper Towns do you prefer?
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* You could also argue that I was being fearful by not applying myself as completely as I could to my studies, for fear that my best still wouldn’t be very good.
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But the truth is a lot more complicated than that, and I wanted to explore that stuff. So you could argue that I was being bold and fearless* and that Todd was being ruled by his fear of poverty or failure or whatever. We were at McDonald’s, and I was talking about going out that night and trying to meet up with this girl I liked, and Todd was like, “I’m gonna stay home and do some work.”Īnd I told him, “Carpe diem,” and he said, “If I only think about maximizing the pleasure of today, how am I ever going to get into med school?” When I was writing the book, I kept thinking of a conversation I had with my high school best friend, who was extremely ambitious and bright and also somewhat poor. And I also wanted to think similarly about fearlessness. More generally, I was really interested in thinking about the ways that fear works-all the ways in which it can be helpful, and also all the ways in which it can be destructive.
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Well, Q is a very anxious person, and his life is circumscribed by that anxiety, but not always in unhealthy ways.