Immediately Quentin’s friend Radar identifies the poster as one of Woody Guthrie, a folksinger. It’s an image of a man with a guitar in his hand, a cigarette in his mouth and a tagline: This Machine Kills Fascists. Quentin takes a glance out his bedroom window soon after and spots a poster that appears only when Margo’s window blind is pulled down.

But you can never follow them anywhere, trust me.” – Margo’s mother. She never turns up to high school the next day and while her parents are upset – Quentin is even more worried. The night ends with Quentin believing things will change between himself and Margo the next day at school. There’s catfish, blue graffiti, flowers, vaseline involved in the plan as they set out to cause mischief. One night Margo appears at Quentin’s window asking for help in enacting her revenge plan on people she thinks have acted in a fake manner towards her. Margo and Quentin have known each other since childhood and are next door neighbors yet they ignore each other at high school. It’s also the name that belongs to John Green’s book – Paper Towns – that has an upcoming film being released next month. When two people disputed over a map – the cartographer could usually prove they had created the map by pointing out the fake towns they had designed into the map. In the early 1900s cartographers wanted to protect the hard work that went into creating maps and so placed fictional towns and even fake streets within the maps they created. Paper Towns is a term used to describe places and locations that only exist on paper maps.

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