Book Project one

 

Have you ever wanted to go on an adventure with a favorite character of yours? Well now you can with the characters of Paper Towns. Margo Roth Spiegelman, Q, Radar, Ben, and Lacey all go on adventures, but not the way you think. Margo is a very adventurous kind of girl. Every time she has run away she has left clues as to where she was going. For example: when she ran away to Mississippi she ate alphabet soup and left the letters m-i-s-s. She is best friends with Lacey, and Next door neighbors with Q. They are all seniors in high school. Now you can buy Margo’s notebook that has everything about her feelings to her eccentric plans.

            Wherever Margo goes, she goes with her book. She has to have it with her wherever she goes. She doesn't write normally though. “’I've been crosshatching over that story for years now…’” (pg. 299) this is the way she has been writing just so that nobody can decode it. She has been taking that book with her wherever she goes and writing stories and plans, anything you can think of. “’ this goes back a long way. When I was in, like, fourth grade…’” (pg.289). This shows just how long she has had this book and how much she loved it. If you have her notebook you will understand how she would think when she was making plans and clues for when she left or snuck into places. I think that my idea will work because Margo is one of the most essential characters in this story and without her or her notebook we would never understand the reason for her leaving and how she came up with her clues and plans for getting out.  “If you don’t imagine, nothing ever happens at all.”(pg.346) This quote to me is telling us that if she hadn't ever thought of all the things she wrote in her book, that nothing would've ever happened, like her running away to Mississippi, and New York, and leaving all of those clues to where she was and to where they could find her. This notebook shows her heart and soul and how she planned everything and how she thought of herself, Q, and her dog. Those thoughts were located in her notebook in her first short story, which she wrote when she was around 10 and then kept changing it up until now and she was still revising it when Q found her in a shack in New York. I believe that this idea will work because I think a lot of people would like to see all of Margo Roth Spiegelman’s thoughts, stories, and plan’s to get out and how she set up her clues. This Idea will make the audience have to read through the entire book in order to see just where the book comes into play and why it is so important in the book.

 

                                                                                                                           Margo Roth Spiegelman has had that book since she was just a little girl in the fourth grade who had a crush on Q and had a great imagination but felt like a paper girl that need to live in a little paper town in a little paper house, so she started planning and sketching and thinking of ideas to where she could run away and the clues that she would leave behind to let her parents and the detectives know where she was without making it very obvious. I believe that by running away to all of these different places and by breaking into some of them she was building up her courage and experience for when she decided that she needed to leave for good. And the book is proof of what she planned and how she figured out to break into some of the places that she did.

What is a Book?

  A book is something that can transport you to a certain point in time in your book. It can take you to that exact moment and can take your imagination to a whole new level. A book is something that you should always have on hand so that at any point during the day you can be transported to your own little world. Your book is like your best friend. Your book can transport you to a different world whenever you want to.

  

   I agree with Joe Meno when he says "the idea of  the book is more important than the actual form it takes..." I agree with this statement because It doesn't matter on what surface you read the book, its about what the words on the surface say. I do not agree with Tom Piazza however because he says "If everything's the same size, there's no perspective." i don't agree with this post because there still is perspective. To me it isn't about what surface the book is on, it's about what the book is saying.

   I do not think that it matters what form a book takes but i also think that there is something to having the book in person. Nancy Joe Sales explains this very well saying"There's something about the physicality of a book, the way it looks and feels and even smells--the notes written in the margin--that makes a living,breathing companion." This shows me how even though e-books are just as good as actual books, there is still something special about having the book in your hands. I also agree with what Joe Meno says in this quote "Television, film, even the stage play, have already been imagined for us, but the book, in whatever form we choose to interact with it, forces us to complete it." i agree with this quote because with a book you have to use your imagination but with a television show or a movie or even a play, you don't use your imagination at all because they have already made up there  mind on what they want us to imagine when we see there production.