The To List

Quentin was driving the minivan, both sneak out of their homes and Quentin was doing things he didn’t understand until they got to Publix. Margo gives him a list of things to buy there as cat food, Vaseline, Veet, blue spray paint, and others. Also they go to Walmart to get The Club, an object that blocks car wheels. Quentin didn’t knew what was going on he was just buying things for these eleven thing plan Margo was talking about. And the first task is to prove his ex-boyfriend was cheating on her. She proves it by going to Becca’s house and call his dad making this the second mission the third and fourth task were to put The Club on Jason’s car and hide his clothes left in Becca’s basement. After achieving her first goal, proving she was right, and takes a picture of Jason running half-naked all over the street. The fifth mission was leaving the cat food on Becca’s. The six missions was to leave the dozen of tulips on Karin’s door, another Margo’s friend and the seventh to leave cat food for Mr. Worthington and the eight mission of the night leaving cat food on Lacey’s car that the next morning will stink.

“…life has become the future. Every moment of your life is lived for the future you go to high school so you can go to college so you can get a good job so you can get a nice house so you can afford to send your kids to college so they can get a good job so they can get a nice house so they can afford to send their kids to college.” (pg. 34)

I believe here the author; John Green is trying to tell everybody is that your parents have your future planned. For being a civilized person you have to go to school, graduate then to collage and have a job and maintain a house or a family this is cycle and then your kids. He wants to show that school and being an educated person is the goal of society and to have a nice life you have to graduate and have a job.

“That’s always seemed so ridiculous to me, that people would want to be around someone because they’re pretty. It’s like picking your breakfast cereals based on color instead of taste.”

My personal reaction to this text is that I agree with it, because you don’t have to choose people because of their face or how they look because their personality is the one that counts.

On the next chapters I believe that Margo will get caught on one of their next missions a she will need to re-create a new strategy for it. Quentin because of that he will stop helping her and he will go home leaving Margo Alone.