Comparing and Contrasting "Paper Towns"; the Book and Movie

  The Differences Between the Book and the Movie 

                                    The Book                                            The Movie    

 

                 - Radar's girlfriend, Angela, decides          - Angela joins the group as they go

                   to stay in Orlando while the group             on the road trip to find Margo.

                   goes to look for Margo.              

 

                - Radar is quite obsessed with the              - The  website, Omnictionary, is barely

                  website he made, Omnictionary.                  even mentioned in the movie.

 

                - People kept having the thought               - Everyone automatically thinks Margo

                  that Margo could possibly be                       has just went somewhere; there were

                  dead.                                                             no thoughts that she could be dead.

 

                - The group starts their big road trip          - The group starts their big road trip a

                  right before their graduation is                    few days before prom; which makes

                  about to happen.                                           them rush the trip.

 

                - When they get to Agloe, Margo is           - Margo isn't in Agloe, and the group

                  furious that the group has found out            doesn't want to wait to see if she'll

                  where she is at.                                             arrive so they leave Quentin.

                

                - Quentin and Margo break into Sea          - Quentin and Margo go to the Sun Trust

                   World as the last of the 12 things                building as the last of the 9 things

                   Margo had planned.                                     Margo had planned.

 

                - Margo needed 3 whole catfish, Veet,      - Margo needed a Red Bull, tissues, one

                  Vaseline, six-pack of Mountain Dew,        catfish, a club, a lot of saran wrap, spray

                  dozen of Tulips, bottle of water,                 paint, petroleum jelly, and an air horn.

                  tissues, and a can of blue spray paint.

 

 

 

     The Similarities of the Book and Movie



               The following are the similarities in the book and movie, "Paper Towns" :

 

• Ben, somehow, gets Lacey Pemberton to be his date to prom.
• Margo decides to stay where she is, rather than to go back to Orlando.
• Margo leaves town after her and Quentin's night of sabotaging people.
• Radar's parents have a really large collection of black Santa's.
• Quentin has been in love with Margo since they were friends as children.
• The group had to arrive in Agloe in a certain amount of time.
• The clues were Margo left for Quentin, were the same.

 

 

 Connection to Text/World:

 

The similarities and differences between the book and movie of "Paper Towns" has a connection to text and the world because when most books are made into movies, a lot of stuff is cut out. However, some parts are still the same.

 

 

 

https://youtu.be/PrVnnwoOP7s

A link to a clip of, personally, my favorite part of "Paper Towns".