The Next Day, The More Clues

The next day Quentin finds out Margo is missing.  She leaves some clues hidden and that id how Quentin has to find Margo without knowing where the hell she went! On the other hand he finds out Lacey didn’t know about Margo’s boyfriend cheating on her OMG this is something new! Lacey was also worried about her because she wasn’t going to school. Margo was still missing. Quentin tries to figure out one clue Margo leaves him and he goes to her home thinking he was correct but no, the next clue was in his own home. After finding the next clue which is an address he calls to his friends. When they arrive they looked and the place was terrible, was horrible but that was about, paper towns ae like that.

“The easiest way to solve a mystery is to decide that there is no mystery to solve.” (pg. 111)

This quote made me think a lot because at first I didn’t understand it but then I connected it to Margo. She was a girl full of mysteries and to find her maybe make this situation not a mystery but an event. Not to try so hard because when Quentin thought he knew where the clue was he was wrong, it was in another place, the clue was always near him, at his home.

“Standing before this building, I learn something about fear. I learn that it is not the idle fantasies of someone who maybe wants something important to happen to him, even if the important thing is horrible. It is not the disgust of seeing a dead stranger, and not the breathlessness of hearing a shotgun pumped outside of Becca Arrington’s house. This cannot be addressed by breathing exercises. This fear bears no analogy to any fear I knew before. This is the basest of all possible emotions, the feeling that was with us before we existed, before this building existed, before the earth existed. This is the fear that made fish crawl out onto dry land and evolve lungs, the fear that teaches us to run, the fear that makes us bury our dead.”  (pg.140)

Here we can see what Quentin thinks about the place Margo took him with his clues. Quentin is a wise thinker and how he analyses things about a terrible place, about fear and the feelings that come with it.

What I think that is going to happen in the next chapters is that the clues will lead them to another paper town place and Margo would make harder to find her. Every time this thing of searching for her will be harder but at the end after driving and following all the clues they will finally find Margo.