The Ending! (Spoilers, obviously)
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Re: The Ending! (Spoilers, obviously)
Thanks!Tanaya wrote:@dhaller I like that you pointed the theme of idealization. It's easy to paint a picture of what we want to believe about ourselves and others, but reality can be far off from our own fantasies. Despite the drastic example under which this happened, it's better to figure this out earlier in life than later, so that's one takeaway for Quentin.
So many books today, especially the most popular ones, are made by author insert or for reader insert. In other words, the main character isn't so much a character as a blank space for the reader to imagine themselves, like one of those cardboard cutouts in a fair that you put your face in and get your picture taken.
Triss from Divergent is a good example, as are Harry Potter and Bella Swan.
John Green excels in that he doesn't do this: while Paper Towns's main character is a typical teenager, he isn't an insert, and he learns over the course of the novel that love isn't making someone into an ideal, which is not a typical lesson to learn.
Such a great book.
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I do normally like books that don't have happy, clear cut endings, but I guess the whole mission to find Margo and all the characters went through made me want a more clear ending. Mostly I wanted to know how the relationships between Margo and Quentin, and Margo and Lacey ended up.
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Great. I love it when the main character learns a really important life lesson. I, also, love the real-life application of such lessons.dhaller wrote: ↑31 Jul 2015, 19:35 I felt that the ending was perfect.
The "moral" of the book, or at least the main theme I took away, was that idealizing people is a mistake. The book ends, therefore, with a very unidealized ending to a high school crush.
And the best part is that the main character learns the lesson.
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I would have liked for them to end up together maybe or at least for Margo to come back as Q and the others had put so much effort into finding her but it was nice that the ending was unpredictable.
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