MARGO ROTH SPIEGELMAN’S
SELF-DISCLOSURE IN JOHN GREEN’S
PAPER TOWNS
THESIS
Submitted as Partial of the Requirements for Sarjana Degree of English Department Faculty of Letters and Humanities UIN Sunan Ampel
By
Ratna Vivi Rahayu NIM: A03212013
ENGLISH LETTERS DEPARTMENT FACULTY OF LETTERS AND HUMANITIES
ABSTRACT
Rahayu, Ratna Vivi. Margo Roth Spiegelman’s Self-Disclosure in John Green’s Paper Towns.Thesis. English Department. Faculty of Letters and Humanities. State Islamic University of Sunan Ampel Surabaya.
This thesis entitle Margo Roth Spiegelman’s Self-Disclosure in John Green’s Paper Towns because Paper Towns is one of the new and popular novel, and the researcher has difficulties to find previous studies which have analyzed this novel. This novel interesting because the main woman character, Margo Roth Spiegelman, shows self-disclosure with the clues and great affection. This study which the researcher conducts is using descriptive method. Firstly, the researcher chooses the topic of this study. Secondly, collecting the data on Margo Roth Spiegelman which is related to this study. Thirdly, analyzing the data by using New Criticism as main theory and Psychological Approach: Self-Disclosure as supporting theory and the researcher is concluding and getting the result of the study. After analyzing the data, it is clear that Margo Roth Spiegelman shows self-disclosure. Therefore, the researcher finds some Margo’s self-disclosure shows how the real she is. She has many characteristics that never know by other people before. She is adorable, intelligent, independent, mysterious, compassionate and ambitious.
Key Words:
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ABSTRACT
Rahayu, Ratna Vivi. Margo Roth Spiegelman’s Self-Disclosure in John Green’s Paper Towns. Skripsi. Sastra Inggris. Fakultas Adab dan Humaniora. Universitas Negeri Sunan Ampel Surabaya.
Skripsi yang berjudul Margo Roth Spiegelman’s Self-Disclosure in John Green’s Paper Towns dibuat oleh peneliti karena Paper Towns adalah novel yang baru dan terkenal, dan peneliti mengalami kesulitan untuk menemukan penelitian sebelumnya yang membahas novel Paper Towns. Novel ini sangat menarik karena karakter utama wanita yang menunjukan penyingkapan diri. Skripsi yang disusun oleh peneliti menggunakan metode deskriptif. Langkah pertama, menentukan topic penelitian. Langkah kedua adalah dengan mengumpulkan data Margo Roth Spiegelman yang berhubungan dengan topic penelitian. Langkah ketiga adalah menganalisis data menggunakan teori sebagai teori utama New Criticism dan Pendekatan Psikologi: Self-Disclosure sebagai teori tambahan. Terakhir menyimpulkan dan mendapatkan hasil dari penelitian ini. Setelah menganalisis data, terbukti bahwa pengungkapan diri Margo menunjukan siapa dirinya sebenarnya. Dia memiliki banyak sifat yang tidak diketahui oleh orang lain. Dia dapat menjadi apapun yang dia mau. Dia menawan, cerdas, independen, misterius, penyayang dan ambisius
Key Words:
Thesis Examiners’s Approval Sheet ... v
Motto ... vi
Dedication ... vii
Acknowledgment ... viii
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2.2 Review of Related Study ... 16
CHAPTER III ANALYSIS ... 18
3.1 Margo Roth Spiegelman ... 18
3.1.1 Margo Roth Spiegelman as adorable girl ... 19
3.1.2 Margo Roth Spiegelman as intelligent girl ... 20
3.1.3 Margo Roth Spiegelman as independent girl ... 23
3.1.4 Margo Roth Spiegelman as Mysterious girl ... 26
3.1.5 Margo Roth Spiegelman as Ambitious Girl ... 38
3.1.6 Margo Roth Spiegelman’s Great Affection ... 45
CHAPTER IV CONCLUSION ... 50
4.1 Conclusion ... 50
4.2 Suggestion ... 51
BIBLIOGRAPHY ... 52
APPENDIX ... 54
CHAPTER I
INTRODUCTION
1.1 Background of The Study
There are many definitions to describe what literature is, one of which is that literature as a work of imaginative and creative writing (Breassler 7). The works of imagination turn up from an experience of life. It can be a process of building creative idea. Therefore, literature is closed with imagination and creative idea. On one hand, The Hutchinson Encyclopaedia of Literature defines literature as words set apart in some way from ordinary everyday communication. Literary works came to be preserved in writing, and, eventually, printed, their role became more private, serving as a vehicle for the exploration and expression of emotion and the human situation (746). On the other hand, Boulton explains literature from perspective function that literature is imaginative works which offer reaction, recognition, revelation and redemption; reaction means literature as entertainment, recognition means literature as knowledge, revelation means literature as act of expressing, and redemption means literature as freedom (in Ade and Okunoye 2)
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The statement distinguishes fiction and non-fiction. Fiction refers to something not real, it can be imagination or fantasy. An example of fiction is a novel and short story such as J.K Rowling’s Harry Potter. Nonfiction is literature based on the real events and facts. It can be information about something or response of event. Common non-fictions are biography, essay, scientific paper and etc.
Imaginative literature usually refers to fictional written works such as a novel, poetry, short stories and drama. Knapp defines imaginative literature as poems, stories, plays-constructs of words which present virtual, or made up life situation. The primary appeal of imaginative literature is the emotion (Par.2). In the other words, imaginative literature creates from emotions of the author. The author must make readers visualize moment to moment action with his words in the novel. Right words can take the reader get the picture of the author’s fantasy. The author writes in a way that makes reader unaware of the words on the novel, a way that makes reader visualize the story as if it were taking place on a stage or a screen in his mind.
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Paper Towns is an intriguing mystery. When Margo Roth Spiegelman
disappears, she leaves behind a trail of clues that leads Quentin to her
whereabouts, and makes him ask a few questions: Where is Margo Roth
Spiegelman? Why did Margo Roth Spiegelman disappear? Is Margo Roth
Spiegelman still alive? Who is the real Margo Roth Spiegelman? And why do we
always use all three of her names?
Paper Towns is the third young adult novel written by John Green. It was
published on October 16, 2008 by Dutton Books. The novel explores the coming of age and search of the protagonist, Quentin Jacobsen, for Margo Roth
Spiegelman, his neighbor and childhood love interest. Along his search, Quentin and his friends, Ben, Radar, and Lacey, discover more about the "real" Margo.
Quentin Jacobsen is the main character in John Green’s Paper Towns. He has had a crush on his neighbor, Margo since they were kids. Throughout their childhood and adolescent years, his crush on Margo develops. Quentin realizes his love for Margo, particularly after her disappearance. He tracks clues that he thinks Margo has left behind for him to help him find her. Quentin becomes obsessed with finding these clues and recruits his friends to help him find Margo.
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usual kept secret told to others. The information is new and never hears by other people (447)
It means that self-disclosure is a type of secret communication about a person and kept from the other people. The person tries to give information about himself to other people. It can be new events or facts which are never known by other people.
Paper Towns is about self-disclosure in the sense that the character wants
to be herself; she wants to do what she likes to do even though other people disagree with her. The main character, Margo is not just an idea, she is a real person and that is a much more complex person.
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1.2 Statement of the Problems
It is the essence of the research because research finding depends on this question:
1. How is Margo Roth Spiegelman’s characterize in John Green’s Paper Towns? 2. What is the effect of Margo Roth Spiegelman’s character to her life?
1.3 Objective of the Study
The objective of this research is to answer the question revealed in the research question.
1. To find out Margo Roth Spiegelman’s characterize in John Green’s Paper
Towns.
2. To find and analyze the effect of Margo Roth Spiegelman’s character to her life?
1.4 Scope and Limitation
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1.5 Significance of the Study
There are many benefits of research in Paper Towns novel. The research useful for additional materials as resources for research on the literature in the novel, which new criticism approach, especially for the students of English Letter Department, Adab Faculty and Humanities of State Islamic University Sunan Ampel.
1.6 Method of the Study
In this research the researcher uses the qualitative descriptive as method of the study. The researcher discusses what the researcher wants to do in this part. It is divided into four main sub chapters. They are research design, source of the data, procedure of data collection, and procedure of data analysis.
1. Research design. The researcher uses a library research and uses New Criticism Theory, Psychoanalysis, and Self-disclosure theory.
2. Source of data. The source of the data in this research is come, from the text of the novel with the title Paper Towns written by John Green. The data will be taken by quoting the important sentences in the novel and also related the problem of the study.
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4. Procedure of data analysis. After collecting the data, the researcher will produce the data and divide into some steps. First, the researcher chooses some sentences which show to the problem in the short story. The researcher chooses the theory which is agreed with the problem of the data. The last, the researcher analyze the data based on the theory.
1.7 Definition of Key Terms
In order to avoid misunderstanding and misinterpretation about the basic concepts used in this research, the research would like to give some definition of the key terms as follow:
Self-disclosure : The process of communication by which one person reveals information about himself or herself to another (Devito 254).
Clues : A sign or some information which helps you to find the answer to a problem, question or mystery. (Merriam-Webster, An Encyclopedia Britannica Company)
CHAPTER II
REVIEW OF RELATED STUDY
2.1. Theoretical Framework
In this chapter the researcher tries to develop the theory that has relation to
the problem in the story. The researcher uses John Crowe Ransom's New criticism
as the main theory in analyzing a major character in the story. New criticism
emphasizes explanation or close reading of the work itself. The researcher uses
Psychological approach: Self-disclosure to analyze the actions and motivations of
characters in a work as supporting theory to analysis the novel. Besides, the
researcher discusses the previous study.
2.1.1. New Criticism
New criticism clearly focuses predominantly on work this term, set current
by the publication of John Crowe Ransom's The New Criticism in 1941, came to
be applied to a theory and practice that was prominent in American literary
criticism until late in the 1960s. New criticism believes that all information
essential to the interpretation of a work must be found within the work
itself (Abrams 180). There is no need to bring in outside information about
the history, politics, or society of the time, or about the author's life.
New criticism is a method that provides the reader with a formula for
arriving at the correct interpretation of a text using only in the text itself. Holman
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only frequently with genre, with image or with character (295). This method gives
the reader an objective approach to discovering a text’s meaning regardless of his
level. It focuses on intrinsic (form and text) rather than extrinsic (history and
biography) criticism.
Character and Characterization
Some expert told about the meaning of character. There are some
definitions of character as follow:
1) Abrams said characters are the persons represented in a dramatic or narrative
work, who are interpreted by the reader as being endowed with particular
moral, intellectual, and emotional qualities by inferences from what the
persons say and their distinctive ways of saying it—the dialogue— and from
what they do—the action (32). Character is the person in the story and refers
to the people, which has authoritarian through the utterance and the action.
2) Wellek and Warren said character in a novel is a historical figure or a figure in
real life. He is made only of the sentences describing him or put into his
mouth by the author. He has no past, no future, and sometimes no continuity
of life (15). Character is a delineation of real life created by the author which
could potentially change overtime.
3) Childs and Fowler said The fictional representation of a person, which is
likely to change, both as a presence in literature and as an object of critical
attention, much as it changes in society (23). Character is object of literary
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Based on the definitions above, the researcher concludes that the character
is a fictional human who represent in work supporting with morality and emotion
by their action and dialogues. Characters always change overtime. A character
makes the work rise-up with various delineations. With different portraying
characters, it makes the work interesting even some characters make it loving or
dislike of public.
Through the language and action of the character, readers will learn
whether the personages are multidimensional characters, which simply developed
character, or perhaps merely foil whose main purposes are to shed light on more
important characters. The readers will also learn about emotions, attitudes and
values of characters such as their hopes and fears, and their strengths and
weakness in the story (Laurie and Stephen 1146).
The Kinds of Characters:
a. Flat character and round character. Flat character has only one outstanding
trait of the feature or at most a few distinguishing marks, whilst, round
character presents with more facts and we can see the character from more
than one side. (Kennedy 74). Round character is anyone who has a complex
personality, he or she is often portrayed as a conflicted and contradictory
person. A flat character is the opposite of a round character.
b. Protagonist character and antagonist character. Protagonist character or hero
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play, story or film (Holman. 355). The protagonist is the central person in a
story, and is often referred to as the story's main character. He or she (or they)
is faced with a conflict that must be resolved. The antagonist, the second most
important character. The antagonist or antihero is the character in fiction who
stands directly opposed to the protagonist. (Holman 25). The antagonist is the
character that represents the opposition against which the protagonist must
contend. In other words, the antagonist is an obstacle that the protagonist must
overcome.
Abrams (33-34) writes characterizing is the persons in narrative showing
and telling. Showing means the author simply presents the characters’ talking and
acting; they say and they do. Telling means the author intervenes authoritatively
in order to describe and often to evaluate the motives and dispositions qualities of
the characters. Characterization is the process by which an author creates vivid,
believable characters in a work of art (Telgen ed. 303). This may be done in a
variety of ways, including;
1. Indirect characterization
Indirect characterization is when the author shows things that reveal the
personality of the character. Indirect characterizations are like clues about the
characters. There are five different methods of indirect characterization: speech,
thoughts, effect on other characters, actions, and looks.
a. Speech; what the character says and what does the character speak.
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b. Thoughts; what is revealed through the character’s thought and
feelings. This shows us the character is not happy.
c. Effect on other character; what is revealed through the character’s
effect on other people. It is how the other characters feel or behave in
reaction to the character.
d. Actions; what the character does and the character behave.
e. Looks; what the character looks like. It is how the character is dressed.
2. Direct characterization
Direct characterization is when the author tells the audience what the
personality of the character is. There is no mystery with direct characterization
because the author tells us the information we need to know. This refers to what
the speaker or narrator directly says or thinks about a character.
According to Robert and Jacob (202) character is concealed through
actions, description, statements by other characters and statements by the author
speaking as storyteller or observer. The author tells the audience what the
personality of the character is. In other words, in a direct characterization, the
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2.1.2. Psychological Approach:
2.1.2.1. Self-Disclosure
Self-disclosure is form of verbal and nonverbal communication that
reveals something about the self, and, hence any communicative act.
Self-disclosure is seen as a useful strategy for sharing information with others (Greene,
Derlega, and Mathews 411). By sharing information, we become more intimate
with other people and our interpersonal relationships are strengthened. According
to Devito Self-disclosure is not simply providing information to another person.
Instead, scholars define self-disclosure as sharing information with others that
they would not normally know or discover Self-disclosure involves risk and
vulnerability on the part of the person sharing the information (193).
Johari Window Theory
The Johari Window model is a simple and useful tool for illustrating and
improving self-awareness, and mutual understanding between individuals within a
group. The Johari Window model can also be used to assess and improve a
group's relationship with other groups. The Johari Window model was devised by
American psychologists Joseph Luft and Harry Ingham in 1955, while researching
group dynamics at the University of California Los Angeles. The model was first
published in the Proceedings of the Western Training Laboratory in Group
Development by UCLA Extension Office in 1955, and was later expanded by
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emphasis on, and influence of, 'soft' skills, behaviour, empathy, cooperation,
inter-group development and interpersonal development (Chapman Par.1).
A useful way of viewing self-disclosure is the Johari window. The Johari
window’s theory is a way of showing how much information you know about
yourself and how much others know about you. The window contains four panes,
as shown below (Chapman Par.9);
1. Open Pane includes includes what everyone can see: your physical looks,
attitude, motivation, value, and way of live.
2. Blind Pane includes information that others can see in you, that you cannot
see: imagine to be true, shortcoming, talents, faults.
3. Hidden Pane contains information you wish to keep private; secrets,
hopes, fantasy.
4. Unknown Pane includes information that nobody yet knows: untapped
potential, undiscovered interests.
The four quadrants of panes represent the different ways information can
be seen and observed, both by oneself and by others. Through self-disclosure, we
open and close panes so that we may become more intimate with others.
Functions of Self-Disclosure
Self-disclosure performs several functions. It is a way of gaining
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person thinks and feels. Once one person engages in self-disclosure, it is implied
that the other person will also disclose personal information. You also come to
feel better about yourself and your relationship when the other person accepts
what you tell them (Greene, Derlega, and Mathews 413). This is known as the
norm of reciprocity. Mutual disclosure deepens trust in the relationships and helps
both people understand each other more.
Risks of Self-Disclosure
While there are several advantages to self-disclosure, there are also risks.
One risk is that the person will not respond favourably to the information.
Self-disclosure does not automatically lead to favourable impressions. Self-Self-disclosure
is useful, it can also be damaging to a relationship (Greene, Derlega, and Mathews
418). Self-disclosure make the other person will gain power in the relationship
because of the information they possess. In other hands, too much self-disclosure
comes too early in a relationship can damage the relationship. Too much
information is shared too much things privately known to others. It could be just
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1.2. Review of Related Study
In reviews of literature, the research finds out a previous study about Paper
Towns novel and psychological approach that research intends to have a research.
The thesis belongs to Rendila Restu Utami, a student of Universitas Pendidikan
Indonesia entitled The Portrayals of “Journey” in John Green Paper Towns Two
Novels; Looking for Alaska and Paper Town. The research has similar novel and
main character, but the researcher focuses on the similarities and differences of
how do the similarities and differences in the portrayals of journey in John
Green's two books (Looking for Alaska and Paper Towns) construct the
main characters’ identity.
In the others review of literature, the research finds out a previous study
which use psychological approach. The thesis belongs to Alies Wimiarti a
stundent of Muhammadiyah University Surakarta entitled Struggle for Normal
Life in Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight Novel (2005): an Individual Psychological
Approach. This research focus on how the major character’s struggle for normal
life reflected in Twilligt author by stephenie meyer’s with use an individual
psychological approach.
The researcher also finds a thesis by Atik Sofiyanti entitled The Ambition
of Main Character of Sarah Steel’s Daddy. She is a student of Muhammadiyah
University Semarang. She examined how the main character ambition based on
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Based on the previous study above, the researcher wants to analyze more
specific about character and characterization use psychological approach of
Margo Roth Spiegelman as the main character in John Green’s Paper Towns
according to her action, speech and a person’s opinion about her. The researcher
chooses Paper Towns entitle Margo Roth Spiegelman’s Self-Disclosure in John
CHAPTER III
ANALYSIS
In this chapter the researcher wants to analyze Margo Roth Spiegelman’s
character as the main character in John Green’s Paper Town by using
Psychoanalysis and new criticism. There are two statements of the problem:
firstly, the author wants to describe about Margo Roth Spiegelman who becomes
the main character in Paper Towns. This analysis is done to describe the
characterization of Margo Roth Spiegelman through her action, talking and
Quentin Jacobsen’s thinking as the narrator of the story. Secondly, the researcher
analyses Margo Roth Spiegelman’s self-disclosure; Margo Roth Spiegelman tries
to show who is the real her. The steps in this phase describe how Margo Roth
Spiegelman’s self-disclosure with the clues and her great affection. Therefore, by
using New criticism and Psychological approach; self-disclosure the researcher
explains Margo’s characterization and form of her self-disclosure.
3.1 Margo Roth Spiegelman
In this case, the researcher would like to explain Margo Roth
Spiegelman’s as the main character. As the researcher knows based on data
collected, the main character in Paper Towns is Margo Roth Spiegelman. At the
beginning of the story in Paper Towns, it explains all about Margo’s character,
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3.1.1 Margo Roth Spiegelman as adorable girl
Margo Roth Spiegalman is the main character in John Green’s Paper
Towns. She is a beautiful girl. At the beginning of the story, when Margo nine
years old. She is an attractive girl. She is the prettiest girl in her subdivision. It can
be seen in this quotation below.
You can’t divorce Margo the person from Margo the body. You
can’t see one without seeing the other. You looked at Margo’s eyes
and you saw both their blueness and their Margo-ness. In the end,
you could not say that Margo Roth Spiegelman was fat, or that she
was skinny, any more than you can say that the Eiffel Tower is or
is not lonely. Margo’s beauty was a kind of sealed vessel of
perfection….(35)
The statement above according to Margo’s friend Quentin, it shows that
Margo Roth Spiegelman is a girl that is a good looking, although she is beautiful
but there is something that makes her more beautiful. Her person’s feature makes
her different than the other girl. She has blue eyes and long chestnut hair. She is
like the tower of Eiffel that made us wonder. A huge number of people visited
Eiffel Tower, but when we just watch it from the distance it is just like lonely. It is
almost the same as Margo’s sweetness, if we see her in a distance we never know
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Margo’s blue eyes are the most beautiful aspects. Her eyes are the middle
part of the point. Her eyes are the best feature. It can be seen from the quotation
bellow;
Margo’s blue blue eyes blinked and she looked impossibly
beautiful right then. (49)
Margo Roth Spiegelman is pretty cool. She is cool in various aspects. She
is a confident and awesome woman. Margo is the person with real beauty. It can
be seen from quotation bellow;
“Yeah,”I said to Ben, stil not listening, still trying to see as much
of her as I could without being too obvious. It wasn’t even that the
was so pretty. She was just so awesome, andin the literal sense.
(16)
According to the quotation above, Margo is a perfect girl based on
Quentin’s opinion. Margo was blessed with good look. She has the attitude that
makes other person feel good. She is very popular girl which has good manner.
3.1.2. Margo as intelligent girl
The main goal in life is to get pleasure. Margo strives to achieve her joy.
Her joy was to be living freely without rules and restrictions. She will do anything
to get his joy. In this novel, narrated that Margo sought her joy by trying to draw
up plans. Such a plan is a plan that is very interesting and wonderful, even some
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Margo has liked the plan since childhood. In the novel, when Margo was
nine years old, she and Quentin her neighbors cycling in Jefferson park, they
found a corpse. Margo a girl who enthusiastically eager to investigate who the
corpse killer and why the corpse killed.
As I took those two steps back, Margo took two equally small and
quiet steps forward.
“His eyes are open”, she said.
“We gotta go home,” I said.
“I thought you closed your eyes when you died,” she said.
“Margo we got ta go home and tell.”
She took another step. She was close enough now to reach out and
touch his foot.
“What do you think happened to him?” she asked. “Maybe it was
drugs or something.” (16)
Margo is very different from the other kids. Another child probably will
cry or scream because of the fear of seeing corpses lying under a tree. but instead,
she enthusiastically and approached the corpse. She was curious to what happened
to the corpse. It is where Margo became part of the mystery and clues.
As a girl, she has many specialties. She is a brilliant girl. All the plans that
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the other place, she did not need another person to help her make a good plan. She
has many brilliant ideas to fade out. It can be seen from the quotation bellow;
She‘s the mouthpiece for it all, the one crazy enough to do
everything. But who plans it? Who‘s sitting around with notebooks
full of diagrams figuring out how much toilet paper you need to
toilet paper a ton of houses?
It‘s all her, I assume. (119)
From the dialog above Margo makes some crazy plans when she goes
away from her house. She is good in everything she plans. All the big plans and
brilliant things were made by her. She has different with other people when keep
her secrets. In her books she has different way to writing with purpose keep her
secrets safe.
Margo is a good planner. She always laid her plans so neatly. She knows
what to do and to do the best. She always knows what needs to be prepared to
implement the strategy. She had a black journal and always wrote down all the
plans in the book. Some of her missions never fail it proves that Margo always has
the best plan.
“The pleasure isn't in doing the thing; the pleasure is in planning
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Margo likes to make plans. She enjoys how to make a good plan and
makes it performing well. She must think of the possibilities that could happen.
According to Margo, making a plan is the best thing than doing something.
Margo Roth Spiegelman, whose stories of epic adventures would
blow through school like a summer storm: an old guy living in a
broken-down house in Hot Coffee, Mississippi, taught Margo how
to play the guitar. Margo Roth Spiegelman, who spent three days
traveling with the circus—they thought she had potential on the
trapeze. Margo Roth Spiegelman, who drank a cup of herbal tea
with the Mallionaires backstage after a concert in St. Louis while
they drank whiskey. Margo Roth Spiegelman, who got into that
concert by telling the bouncer she was the bassist‘s girlfriend, and
didn‘t they recognize her, and come on guys seriously, my name is
Margo Roth Spiegelman and if you go back there and ask the
bassist to take one look at me, he will tell you that I either am his
girlfriend or he wishes I was, and then the bouncer did so, and then
the bassist said “yeah that‘s my girlfriend let her in the show,” and
then later the bassist wanted to hook up with her and she rejected
the bassist from the Mallionaires.(27-26)
In the novel, Margo has been making some travel plans. All the plans have
been realised perfectly. Some travel Margo, among; go visit Misissipi. She lives
in an old house with an old man, then the old man taught Margo playing guitar.
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troupe considered talented in playing Margo trapeze. The trapeze is a circus
attraction with the rope and the suppleness of the body. Margo also made it into
the back of the stage and drink along with The Mallionare, and claimed to be the
bass player boyfriend. She even went to Disney world alone. The journey has
been arranged by Margo so all of it executed with good. Margo run all his plans
alone because she felt unable to do anything on its own. She never asks others to
help or follow it. She is just unsure what she did right and not bothering anyone.
The writing is in decipherable, not because Margo‘s handwriting is
bad, but because on top of the horizontal lines of text, writing also
goes vertically down the page. “I write crosshatch,” she says.
Very hard for non-Margo readers to decode. (162)
She wrote the story with crossed style. Margo writing style is a secret that
only she knows. Writing in the journal black are codes that are very difficult to
solve. Like a mystery, Margo’s writing of course only herself could read the text,
too difficult for others to read the handwriting in Margo’s book.
3.1.3. Margo Roth Spiegelman as Independent girl
Margo makes plans for almost everything. Margo is an intelligent girl. She
always plans everything she wants. In her nine years old, she tries to investigate
the corpse that she finds with Quentin in Jeffersen Park. She tries to investigate
the case alone without Quentin. She has got a lot of information from many
people and writes down in her journal. She can find the corpse’s name and where
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Independent girl who never needs help from other people to find her curiosity. It
can be seen from the quotation bellow;
I did an investigation,‖ she said quite seriously. Even up close the
screen broke her face apart, but I could tell that she was holding a
little notebook and a pencil with teeth marks around the eraser. She
glanced down at her notes.(18)
In addition, she has a small black journal that she writes plans and stories
in. Everything that she wants to do has been written in the journal. It makes all her
plans well-structured. When she ran away, she had planned it all out in that
journal. She also wrote a story in it about her and Q when she was eight.
Margo is a strong and an independent girl. She believes that she doesn't
need anyone to tell her what to do and how to live. She wants to be able to live the
way she wants to. She did not want people to arrange her life, though when using
capital in her writing. The use of capital in random way of Margo indicates the
freedom. It can be seen from the quotation bellow;
“Interesting capitalization,” I said.
“Yeah. I‘m a big believer in random capitalization. The rules of
capitalization are so unfair to words in the middle.” (43)
Margo did not agree with the rules of the use of the capital letters. Letters
that are in the middle must be equal to the letter which is in front. It shows how
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very free attitude. She is the sort of person who believes in ‘Yolo”. She wants to
live her life while she is young and able.
Margo leaves her town alone. There are five parts of the novel that tell that
Margo is out of her town. Margo’s parents have made fourth reports about Margo
leaves. She did five times on the way; when she first visits the mississipi. The
second is when she trips to go to Disney world. The Third is when she joins the
circus and becomes a part of the appearance of the circus. She spent three days
traveling with the circus. Then Fourth time is when she drinks a cup of herbal tea
with the Mallionaires backstage after a concert in St. Louis. The last time is when
she goes away to New York and never back again.
3.1.4. Margo Roth Spiegelman as Mysterious girl
Margo is adventurous. She doesn’t like to stay in one place for a very long
time. She goes on crazy adventures you wouldn’t expect to be real.
Margo Roth Spiegelman, whose stories of epic adventures would
blow through school like a summer storm: an old guy living in a
broken-down house in Hot Coffee, Mississippi, taught Margo how
to play the guitar. Margo Roth Spiegelman, who spent three days
traveling with the circus—they thought she had potential on the
trapeze. Margo Roth Spiegelman, who drank a cup of herbal tea
with the Mallionaires backstage after a concert in St. Louis while
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concert by telling the bouncer she was the bassist‘s girlfriend, and
didn‘t they recognize her, and come on guys seriously,..(26)
Margo goes missing very often. Margo likes to go on adventures and
journeys to interesting places. She doesn’t like her hometown much. For example;
Margo drank herbal tea with The Millionaires while they drank whiskey. She
traveled three days with the circus. They thought that she had potential on the
trapeze. She learned how to play guitar from an old man living in a broken down
house, in Hot Coffee, Mississippi.
When margo is going somewhere, she leave little clues.
“Clues,”. Mr. Spiegelman said, standing up now. The detective had
placed the folder on the table, and Margo‘s dad leaned forward to
look at it with him. “Clues everywhere. The day she ran away to
Mississippi, she ate alphabet soup and left exactly four letters in
her soup bowl: An M, an I, an S, and a P. She was disappointed
when we didn‘t piece it together, although as I told her when she
finally returned: ‗How can we find you when all we know is
Mississippi? It‘s a big state, Margo!”
The detective cleared his throat. “And she left Minnie Mouse on
her bed when she spent a night inside Disney World.”
“Yes,” her mom said. “The clues. The stupid clues. But you can
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As said by Margo’s mother, when Margo goes somewhere then she will
leave instructions unfortunately these instructions were not understood by her.
The instructions look simple but difficult to guess, because of that her family
completely did not want to know the hints of it. Margo presumably disappointed
with her family.
When margo went to Mississipi, she gives instructions to the family in the
form of letters of the alphabet arranged in the soup. The four letters are: M, I, S,
and P. maybe for others it is hint is too difficult to understand, but for her it is a
guide that is easy to understand. The clue is a meaning of a notification where she
will go. In addition, when he to Disney world he left stuffed Minnie mouse in his
bed. Margo thought that Disney world famous with cartoon Mickey mouse and
Minnie mouse, but who knew that Margo went to the place where the doll icon. It
could be someone else will guess she went to the place where the doll was
purchased. This is the characteristic of Margo, when she goes she will be leaving
the form of clues, but the clues are too difficult to understand.
Margo is a mysterious person. She is not open to the people around her,
though with her best friend. She doesn't want people to care about what she does,
though what she did would be considered bad by them. She has the different way
looking at the world. The other main character in Paper Towns spends the whole
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Margo always loved mysteries. And in everything that came
afterward, I could never stop thinking that maybe she loved
mysteries so much that she became one. (20)
Margo tries not too open to anyone. She doesn't want others to know in
details. She doesn't need anything from anyone. what she did, did not need to gain
approval from others. Margo was very assertive in everything, even in arranging
her life. She very rarely shows reactions too emotionally on an event or people
around them. She is a figure of a girl that is not legible.
Margo likes to go on adventures and journeys to interesting places. She
always went to places that people would not normally visit. She doesn’t like to
stay in one place for a very long time. She does stay in one place because she
doesn’t like to stay around the same people for too long. Her dreams are too big
for her to handle.
The notebook is half full by the start of junior year, and that‘s
when I decide that I‘m going to do one more thing, one big thing,
and then leave.‖ (163)
Margo has an addiction to adventure. When she first had a long journey,
she felt that this was the life she should have lived a long time ago. She felt cool
and enjoy the ride. Several journeys have been arranged and when she realized
she would plan a new journey again and again. She is never tired of her
adventures. Until, she finally decided to do something big and gone forever from
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She has an adventure to Mississippi and follows the journey of the circus
and becomes part of the circus. Besides, she also visited a fictitious place that was
never known by others named Agloe in New York. She has visited several
continents alone.
When she is away from Florida she has set his plan from the beginning to
the end. The plan consists of how she had to revenge to friends and her boyfriend
that have an affair, where she had to ask for help and what is needed and where
she should go after it, all neatly structured.
I finished this story in fifth grade. A few years later, I decide I‘m
going to run away to Mississippi. And then I write all my plans for
this epic event into this notebook on top of the old story, and then I
finally do it (162)
Margo already plans more adventure. Initially she only compiled a
detective story with Quentin in her black journal, but then she is interested in
making some adventurous plans. Margo is very brave. She then put her plan. The
plans are to visit Mississippi, then follow the circus trip until in New York. When
she is gone after revenge mission she has left some clues for Quentin.
“Interesting,” I said. Margo‘s mom had said that Margo‘s clues
never led anywhere, but I knew now that Margo had created a
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immediately thought of her in the SunTrust Building, telling me I
was better when I showed confidence.(130)
Margo has devised a plan to travel forever. She has made some hints for
the left as a message. Quentin is a man who is believed to receive the Margo’s
clues. When the Mission of revenge carried out together, there is trust built up
between Margo and Quentin. In this case, Quentin and non verbal communication
will look intense. In all factors that affect interpersonal communication, this is the
most important factor. When someone believe in someone, it would be easier to
open up or do self disclosure. It is this belief that determines the effectiveness of
communication.
Margo thought that the only people who can guess the instructions is
Quentin. The Margo’s clues left behind when she is gone are; Poster of the singer
Woody Gotrie, a poem entitled song of myself by Walt Whitman, a subdivision,
map and the town called agloe. These instructions indirectly is the delivery of
information about Margo. some of these instruction is the self disclosure Margo to
Quentin.
The first Margo’s clues when she has gone are Woody Gotrie’s poster.
The poster affixed to room window blinds at Margo. in the Gotrie poster looked
ahead with holding a cigarette in his hand. the expression in her eyes seeming to
expect others to regard it.
I happened to glance out my window, and I saw immediately
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in Margo‘s room. But I wasn‘t seeing the shade. Instead, I was
seeing a black-and-white poster, taped to the back of the shade. In
the photograph, a man stands, his shoulders slightly slumped,
staring ahead. A cigarette dangles out of his mouth. A guitar
is slung over his shoulder, and the guitar is painted with the
words THIS MACHINE KILLS FASCISTS. (123)
Radar already had his handheld out; he was searching
Omnictionary for the phrase. ―The picture‘s of Woody Guthrie,‖
he said. ―A folksinger, 1912 to 1967. Sang about the working
class. ‗This Land Is Your Land.‘ Bit of a Communist. (123)
In the poster Margo conveys multiple messages, she wants to show
Quentin that she is fans of Woody Gotrie. In addition in Margo’s bed also found
several of his albums. The most gotrie song is about Communism and not many
people liked the band's songs. Furthermore, in the poster there is a message "Pay
Attention" from Margo.
In the novel Margo snubbed by her parents, perhaps because she always
left home. Margo hope there are others who care about her other than her parents.
and the only thing that would matter to her is Quentin.
Second clue’s Margo is a poem, Walt Whitman’s Song of Myself. There
are two parts that marked these poems as Margo’s message in the poem, the one
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And there were two lines from the poem that were highlighted in
green:
Unscrew the locks from the doors!
Unscrew the doors themselves from their jambs! (143)
The first Margo’s message marked green color is a vice. Quentin managed
to prove that poetry is a vice. Margo intends to tell Quentin do something that is
going to a door, releasing a lock from the door and release the door from the
daring.
But I also read and reread everything high-lighted in blue:
You shall no longer take things at second or third hand . . . .
nor look through the eyes of the dead . . . .
nor feed on the spectres in books.
I tramp a perpetual journey
All goes onward and outward . . . . and nothing collapses,
And to die is different from what any one supposed,
and luckier.
If no other in the world be aware I sit content,
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I bequeath myself to the dirt to grow from the grass I love,
If you want me again look for me under your bootsoles.
You will hardly know who I am or what I
mean, But I shall be good health to you nevertheless,
And filter and fibre your blood.
Failing to fetch me at first keep encouraged,
Missing me one place search another,
I stop some where waiting for you (133-134)
The poetry is marked in blue is a poem journey. It contains poems about
the eternal journey. "I tramp a perpetual journey" is probably a message that
Margo was also a perennial adventure. She is gone for good, wading through
some long rides. "If no other in the world be aware I sit content, And if each and
all be aware I sit content." it means that Margo would feel happier if there are
people who care about her by looking for where she was going, but she would still
happy about it if no one else cares and hope she returns. "I bequeath myself to the
dirt to grow from the grass I love" the meaning of the rhyme is Margo find places
where other people didn't like the place, but that place was where Margo during
the search, the place where she will stay forever. "If you want me again look for
me under your bootsoles" this poem means if someone looking for her, they must
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fetch me at first keep encouraged, Missing me one place search another, I stop
some where waiting for you" the lyrics are meaningful when someone looking for
her and did not find her, Margo expect people it remains enthusiastic to find her,
if she is not found elsewhere so follow the instructions then she will be found
somewhere a place where Margo awaits for.
The Margo second clue is a pseudovision. Pseudovision is a subdivision
abandoned before it could be completed. She likes these places because she is all
alone and it is somewhere different that she can go.
And if Margo had gone to the pseudovisions never to come back,
she knew about a place I hadn‘t uncovered in all my research. (7)
According to the quotation below, Margo is sensitive. She does not want
to hang out with anyone other than those who are really familiar with her. She is
avoiding of social contact. She tends not to show her attitude. She tried to find a
place where she could do to match what she wanted.
The next clue left by Margo is a map. Map identical to a travel experience.
The map is directions of location, in additionally map also has function to find out
the distance of one place to another. Margo left a map containing the route of her
journey.
We were getting near the bottom of the box when Radar pulled out
a black-and-white brochure entitled FIVE THOUSAND
AMERICAN CITIES. It was copyrighted 1972 by the Esso
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creases, I saw a pinhole in a corner. “This is it,” I said, my voice
rising. There was a small rip around the pinhole, like it‘d been torn
off the wall. It was a yel-lowing, brittle, classroom-size map of the
United States printed thick with potential destinations. The rips in
the map told me that she had not intended this as a clue—
Margo was too precise and assured with her clues to muddy the
waters. (87)
Margo’s map is a map entitled Five Thousand American Cities. The map
is information that is submitted to Quentin that Margo went from Orlando and still
in America. She still has not ventured further in. Maybe Margo hopes Quentin can
find it with the Map. Unfortunately, the map is too general to be investigated and
need another clue.
There were two unripped dots: one looked like Los Angeles,
although there were a bunch of towns clustered so close together in
Southern California that the type overlapped. The other unripped
hole was over Chicago. There was a ripped one in New York that,
judging from the location of the hole in the wall, was one of the
five boroughs of New York City. (87)
On the map, Margo has given Quentin instructions with a few marks on
the map. These alerts in the form of the former pin. There are three pins that
Margo’s mark, Chicago, Los Angeles and New York City. Indirectly, Margo
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go. She will go to one of the city as of the end of his journey. The adventures will
stop within a point, in the Chicago, Los Angeles or New York.
One of these could be attributed to the previous instructions. Woody
Gothrie and Walt Whitman ever been lived in New York. The city is the most
likely final Margo’s destination. "I bequeath myself to the dirt to grow from the
grass I love" is Margo is New York. It is the most populous metropolitan area in
the world. New York is identical to the splendor. Maybe Margo will seek another
atmosphere in this city.
The last Margo’s clue is a city name Agloe. She came to Algoe, New
York, which was originally a paper town created on a map. She loved the idea that
the fake location eventually became a real place, and thought that it was the
perfect place for her to start over since she thought of herself as being a “paper
girl” someone who people create an image without actually getting to know the
real person.
And Agloe is a place where a paper creation became real. A
dot on the map became a real place, more real than the people
who created the dot could ever have imagined. I thought maybe the
paper cutout of a girl could start becoming real here also. And it
seemed like a way to tell that paper girl who cared about popularity
and clothes and everything else: ‗You are going to the paper
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Margo did not want to live in paper town. She always thought that she is a
paper girl and live in Paper towns. She also considers that Florida the town where
she lives is a Paper town. Paper Towns mean that no one in her town cares about
anything, they're just paper girls and boys living in their paper houses, in their
paper towns.
I looked down and thought about how I was made of paper.
I was the flimsy-foldable person, not everyone else. And here‘s the
thing about it. People love the idea of a paper girl. They always
have. And the worst thing is that I loved it, too. (Page:166)
She felt as a paper girl who lives in the paper towns, paper girl who lives
in the same regularity and routine. She did not want to learn in school or college,
get a job with a big salary, to get married in order to afford children so that
children can learn in school and go to college and get a job with a larger salary,
and so on and so forth. Margo wants to change her life. She did not want to be the
person who is like it. She wants to be a free person, to be herself. She is not
limited by other people's ideas about her.
3.1.5 Margo Roth Spiegelman as Ambitious Girl
Margo is someone who makes a decision based on her best interest and
doesn’t let others interfere with her choices. She originally plans a road trip
and ultimately makes it happen, and she knows that she never goes back to her
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“I couldn‘t figure out any other way that I could leave without
getting dragged back.”(158)
Margo is away from home and did not want to go back again. She was
bored with her life which was disappointing. She has dumped her friends and
boyfriend. She felt the best way for her is to go from a previous life and never
comes back.
The novel, told Margo has planned several things to revenge. Margo’s
eleven plans have been drawn up before she asks Quentin for helping her mission.
“So like I said, I need a car. Also, I need you to drive it, because I
have to do eleven things tonight, and at least five of them involve
a getaway man.” (Page:36)
The plans are well structured. It proves how smart and creative she is. She
led the plan and directed how Quentin should act. She should take advantage of its
ability to something better and not just for fun. The eleven plans are;
The first round is looking for Jase car parked around the house Becca, and
put The Club (steering wheel lock) on the steering wheel Jase. It can be seen from
the quotation below;
“Just drive,” she said, and so I just did. We found Jase‘s Lexus two
blocks down from Becca‘s street, parked in a cul-de-sac. Before I‘d
even come to a complete stop, Margo jumped out of the minivan
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door, sat down in the seat, and proceeded to attach The Club to
Jase‘s steering wheel. Then she softly closed the door to the Lexus.
(50)
The second half is called Becca to inform parents about their daughter who
was having sex with Jase in the basement of his home. It can be seen from the
quotation below;
“Sir, I think you should know that your daughter is currently
having sex with Jason Worthington in your basement.” And then I
hung up. Part Two: accompli. (50)
The third round is photographed Jase fleeing from the Becca basement
wearing only underwear. It can be seen from the quotation below;
“Here he comes,” Margo whispered, and I didn‘t know what she
meant until, out of the corner of my eye, I noticed a shirtless
Jason Worthington wiggling out of the basement window. He
took off sprinting across the lawn, naked but for his boxer shorts,
and as he approached I jumped up and took a picture of him,
completing Part Three.
The fourth round was to get into the basement of the house and took all the
clothes Becca and Jase left. And the fifth round was left dead catfish wrapped in
paper with the message "Your friendship with him now lying along the fish" in
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“Part Four. Get his clothes in case he tries to sneak back into her
house. Part Five. Leave fish for Becca.” (53)
The sixth round was leaving a wreath to Karin as an apology, she who told
Margo that her boyfriend was having an affair but instead condemned Margo
disbelief. It can be seen from the quotation below;
“Part Six,” Margo said once we were driving again. She was
waving her fingernails through the air, almost like she was playing
piano. “Leave flowers on Karin‘s doorstep with apologetic note.”
(Page;58)
The seventh round was going to the house Jase, toss catfish died with the
words "Love MS for you now lie with the fish" to one of its windows smashed
and sprayed paint to form the letter M on the window was broken. It can be seen
from the quotation below;
“Part Seven,” she said as soon as I was back in the minivan.
“Leave a fish for the lovely Mr. Worthington.” (58)
The eighth rounds is putting a dead fish with the words "Your friendship
with MS now lying along the fish" under the car seat Lacey and write the letter M
on the roof of his car. At that time it was past 2:49 am. It can be seen from the
quotation below;
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“Don‘t worry. Part Eight is child‘s play. We‘re going back to
Jefferson Park. Lacey‘s house. (61)
The nine rounds. Margo invited Q to enter the building SunTrust Bank to
relax and check the progress of their work from the top of the building. From the
top of the building, they could see the whole city of Orlando. Margo refers to their
city as "paper town", describing it as "fake" and "do not even loud enough to be
made of plastic". At 3:51 they left the building SunTrust. It can be seen from the
quotation below;
And then after a long time, she said, “Part Nine— downtown.”It
was 2:49 in the morning. I had never, in my entire life, felt less
tired. (64)
The ten rounds, Margo asks Q choosing victims. Q finally chose Chuck
Parson, a bully in high school. Margo and Q Chuck sneaks into the house, remove
one eyebrow Chuck with a hair removal cream, and spread Vaseline on all the
doors in his house to make it difficult to open. It can be seen from the quotation
below;
“I know, but I saved the most laborious one for last. Anyway,
we‘ll get it all done. Part Ten—Q‘s turn to pick a victim.”
“What?”
“I already picked a punishment. Now you just pick who we‘re
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Round eleven, Margo invited Q to Seaworld, because it's just a play that
has not been cracked by Margo. It can be seen from the quotation below;
“So we‘re going to SeaWorld,” she told me. Part Eleven. (80)
“Okay,” she said. Memorize the map. By far the most terrifying
part of the half-mile-long journey Margo had plotted for us was
the moat. (86)
The quotation above is when Margo and Quentin will go broke into
SeaWorld. Their mission was breaking into SeaWorld at night. Margo has devised
a plan and makes maps. The plan was even very good and very specific. She
already knows where she should go and what the obstacles faced.
Margo always conveys something in her actions. This is a proof that she
had indirectly reveal herself. The aim always carried through the code even
though not everyone understood the meaning. The intent of the information
provided is clear enough and prove Margo’s true identity. for example, when
Margo did a mission of revenge, she always left the initials "M".
“In an elegant motion—the kind you associate with calligraphy or
Zorro—she spray-painted the letter M onto the wall above the
desk.” (54)
“And then, just because she‘s Margo Roth Spiegelman, she took a
moment to carefully spray-paint a lovely M on the part of the
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“And then Margo said, “Put an M on the roof for me.” (64)
“I damn near landed on Margo, who was spray-painting an M onto
the vinyl siding of Chuck‘s house, and then we both grabbed our
shoes and hauled ass to the minivan.( 80)
The Margo’s initial "M" try, show information about herself to the victims.
Generally, some of the smugglers will never show who he is, except there is a
specific purpose. In this case, Margo tries to prove she could disappoint others.
She tried to make her boyfriend and her friend upset her. Margo makes them
irritated so they know how annoyed Margo with them. It can be known that
Margo is a vengeful. She is going to hate people who hurt her even she also does
revenge them.
There are several layers in the individual, among others, opinions, beliefs,
prejudices, and obsession. In this case, Margo tend to open in the event of
prejudice. It can be seen from some of the Margo’s messages;
A message from Margo Roth Spiegelman: Your friendship with
her it sleeps with the fishes (54)
MS’s love For you: it Sleeps With the Fishes (60)
“your Friendship with MS Sleeps with The fishes (63)
Some of the messages above had been left after Margo do a revenge
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forever. It shows how much disappointment to friends and his girlfriend. This is a
deliberate action which created by herself. the goal was self disclosure.
3.1.6 Margo Roth Spiegelman’s Great Affection
The other Margo’s self-disclosure in the novel is about her great affection.
The first her self-disclosure about great affection is about the way of her life.
Margo is “Yolo” believer. Yolo means you only live once. Margo found that she
is alive right now, but overall it is not permanent. Every choice that she makes big
or small affects what happens in her life and sometimes others. If she makes a bad
decision, it could hurt others and her too. You only live one when you die, you
can't live that life again. Another way to look at it is that "You only live once" so
live it up. She tries to tell someone that they should try to experience all the joys
the world has to offer them and not let anything hold you back from enjoying the
life you have now. You only have one life so if you don't enjoy it, then you don't
get another opportunity.
“…but the whole allure of a life rightly lived—college and job and
husband and babies and all that bullshit“ (167)
Margo argued that a normal life is boring. A person feels happy when he
graduated from school or gets a job with a salary sufficient, but not for her. She
did not need to pass or later to work and then get married and have children and
educate their children. It does not free for adventure. Happiness for her was not
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She plans something and executes it perfectly. She always thought about
what would happen once she executes the plan. She always thinks about what will
happen after the plan expires. Margo is someone who has always received as a
result of a well.
“I leave, and the leaving is so exhilarating I know I can never go
back. But then what? Do I just keep leaving places, and leaving
them, and leaving them, tramping a perpetual journey?” (99)
When Margo had completed crazy missions, she chose to go on forever. It
is the risk that the most difficult in his life. She may meet with the place and the
new people. She must adapt to the new environment, but she is happy with it. She
can be adventurous and adventurous again. She felt free to do anything. She chose
what she thought was fun. She is comfortable with her new life.
The second Margo’s self-disclosure about great affection is about her
family. Margo never realized how people around her care her. Margo is a selfish
girl. She always does what she thinks is right and never care about others. She
thought what she did was right and she did not need to listen to others argued or
advise her.
“But God, these days, it‘s like living in a fascist dictatorship.” (40)
The quotation above proved how Margo hates her live. She disagrees rules
of the life. Her parent’s official regulation reputed as dictators of her life. This is
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“I don‘t want her under our roof.” Mrs. Spiegelman raised a tissue
to her eyes, although I heard no crying in her voice. “I know that‘s
terrible, but it‘s true.” (117)
Too often she run away from home and made her family worry. She will
never know how her family is very worried about their daughter. She will never
know that his parents wanted Margo a normal life like other young people. Until
her parents finally feel too tired with what Margo does and they do not care
anymore what she does.
“Hey, it‘s Margo. . . . I‘m in Agloe, New York, with Quentin. . . .
Uh. . . . well, no, Mom, I‘m just trying to think of a way to answer
your question honestly. . . . Mom, come on. . . . I don‘t know, Mom
. . . I decided to move to a fictitious place. That‘s what happened. .
. . Yeah, well, I don‘t think I‘m headed that way, regardless. . . .
Can I talk to Ruthie? . . . Hey, buddy. . . . Yeah, well, I loved you
first. . . . Yeah, I‘m sorry. It was a mistake. I thought—I don‘t
know what I thought, Ruthie, but anyway it was a mistake and I‘ll
call now. I may not call Mom, but I‘ll call you. . . . Wednesdays? . .
. You‘re busy on Wednesdays. Hmm. Okay. What‘s a good day for
you? . . . Tuesday it is. . . . Yeah, every Tuesday. .. . Yeah,
including this Tuesday.‖ Margo closes her eyes tight, her teeth
