Papertowns 2

I liked how Margo described her town as a "paper town" in the novel, and I thought the term fit perfectly. The term is also the title of the book, and I feel it is very significant. In the beginning of the book, a "paper town" is known as a town where everything looks perfect from the right angle, but once you look at it from inside and up close, you see it's flimsy, two-dimensional, and falling apart. Margo uses the term to describe her hometown and says she wants to leave the paper towns. By the end of the novel, there is another definition for the word "paper town" and it is a town that appears only on a map, and is fictional, such as Agloe, New York, also known as where Margo ran away to. It's ironic how Margo went from one type of paper town to the other.