On the day of his graduation, he looks at the map of New York he found in the abandoned mall. Quentin spends a stretch of time looking for more clues with no success. Inside Margo left a message painted in the walls that says, вЂњYou will go to the paper towns and you will never come back.вЂќ Quentin believes that this is MargoвЂ™s way of confirming her suicide while his friends believe it means she was tired of her fake life. When they arrive, they find an abandoned mall. The next day, Quentin and his friends skip school and drive to the address left by Margo. One day, Quentin unhinges his door and finds another clue: an address. In MargoвЂ™s room, there is a copy of the poem with highlighted text. The poster leads them to a song called вЂњWalt WhitmanвЂ™s Niece.' The song leads them to a poem called вЂњSong of Myself,вЂќ by Walt Whitman. When her parents left home, Quentin bribes MargoвЂ™s sister, so they can investigate her room. He notices a poster of Woody Guthrie taped to her bedroom shades. A private investigator asks some question about where Margo could have run away. Quentin was the last person her parents saw her with when her father found her in Quentin house at night. Because Margo had already run away from home, her parents are worry-free since they expect her to come back. The next day, Margo never shows up to school or the next three days. After her eleven things are completed, Quentin is glad that he is back to being friends with Margo. Margo takes Quentin to an adventure filled with fish, vandalizing, spray-paint, breaking into SeaWorld, and waxing a bullyвЂ™s eyebrow while sleeping. Margo convinces Quentin to take his motherвЂ™s minivan, sneak out of his home on a school night, and help her seek revenge.

She especially needs Quentin's car and assistance driving. She asks Quentin to help her that night with eleven missions to get revenge on the people that have hurt her throughout her high school years. One night, Margo shows up in QuentinвЂ™s window with black paint on her face. Nine years later, Quentin and Margo grew apart from each other considering that they are neighbors.

Paper Towns starts with nine-year-olds Quentin вЂњQвЂќ Jacobsen and Margo Roth Spiegelman discover the corpse of Robert Joyner, a soon to be divorced man who committed suicide in the Jefferson Park.

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