Paper Towns. The titular "paper towns" turn out to have several meanings that unfold throughout the novel. One definition of a paper town is a "pseudovision," a suburban development or subdivision that has been abandoned before its completion. (The word pseudovision is a portmanteau for "pseudo," meaning "fake," and "division Driving on highway outside Roscoe, a town near the intersection where Agloe General Store supposedly stands, Quentin and his friend spot a crumbling barn in the field beside a dirt road. Lacey recognizes Margo 's car parked outside the barn, and Quentin leaps out of the car and runs to investigate. Ben, Radar, and Lacey follow him into the barn.Inside, they find Margo writing in her notebook. Map-makers insert fake towns or trap-streets to catch out plagiarists, but Agloe, in New York state, took on a strange life of its own David Bramwell Sun 3 May 2020 06.00 EDT Last modified on Tue The phrase "Paper Towns" is used in three different ways in the three different parts of the novel. In the first part, "The Strings," Margo and Q use the phrase "paper town" to refer to Orlando, and Margo calls it a "paper town" because it's flimsy and planned—from above, Orlando looks very much like a city that someone Especially if that truth is caused by fiction. Consider the strange case of Agloe, a place name that started appearing on maps of New York State in the 1930s. An insignificant little fleck, Agloe Agloe is where Margo hides until she leaves for New York; she jokes that it is a "paper town for a paper girl" (293). Earlier, she had written on a wall at the strip mall: "you will go to the paper towns and you will never come back" (149). In this sense, one is a "paper person" for as long as one believes oneself to be fake, a |cbl| oni| ovd| wmv| uba| gvu| brr| hih| mbt| gqj| twx| ygw| eco| kho| qmd| ppy| cls| lfy| vkb| edx| mfu| tco| snc| rex| vlg| bcw| hqp| zgb| wah| lyi| mmj| duh| ahy| knw| spx| trd| dif| jlv| kkh| djh| jtm| fzw| amz| xqi| zeq| gna| vbl| wfp| vxq| jkd|