He drives to all of the pseudovisions where he feels that she may be hiding, but he cannot find her. īased on a note Margo has left referring to "paper towns", Quentin realizes Margo may be hiding or buried in one of the many abandoned housing subdivisions-"pseudovisions" or "paper towns"-around Orlando. He suspects the clues are meant to lead him to her current whereabouts, though he worries she may have committed suicide. Quentin struggles to analyze all of Margo's clues and leftover materials in the mini-mall. Quentin and his friends follow these clues to find an abandoned mini-mall in Christmas, Florida, that contains evidence of Margo's recent presence.
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Quentin, Ben, and Radar soon discover a series of items that Margo has left hidden for Quentin: a picture of Woody Guthrie on Margo's bedroom window shade, Margo's highlighted copy of Walt Whitman's poem " Song of Myself", and a written address in Quentin's bedroom doorjamb. The next day, Quentin wonders hopefully if Margo will start hanging out with him, but Margo is reported missing by her parents after three days. Margo and Quentin successfully complete the tasks, share a romantically ambiguous dance, and return to their homes around dawn. Margo needs an accomplice and a car to help her, and Quentin accepts. She has devised an eleven-part plan of vengeance on a group of people she feels have hurt her during her time at high school these people include her cheating boyfriend Jase and peers Lacey and Becca. A month before their graduation, Margo suddenly reappears in Quentin's life, climbing through his bedroom window as she did during their first meeting. Nine years later, Quentin is an outcast whose best friends are Ben and Radar, while Margo is a popular student-both now seniors at Winter Park High School. As preadolescents, Quentin and Margo together discovered the corpse of a local man who committed suicide in their neighborhood park. Paper Towns mostly takes place in and around Jefferson Park, a fictional subdivision located in suburban Orlando, Florida and focuses on narrator and protagonist Quentin "Q" Jacobsen and his neighbor Margo Roth Spiegelman, with whom Quentin has always had a romantic fascination.