====== What are Margo and Quentin like? ======

===== (A) The two main characters =====
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**TASKS**

  - Read the prologue up to p. 6 „Then I took a nap.“
  - Describe (in writing), how Margo and Quentin behave in the playground. 
  - Read on until the end of the prologue. 
  - We talked about how Margo and Quentin are presented in the prologue when they are still kids. Of course, some character traits [Charaktereigenschaften] that we have as kids stay with us when we grow up, others don’t. \\ Try to develop a clearer picture of what Margo and Quentin are like as teenagers. 
    - For Q., look at p. 23 (bottom half) f., for Margo and Q., look at p. 32 (bottom quarter) f. 
    - Find at least two more passages for each of them. 
    - Characterize the two and cite things they do or say to support your opinion. 
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===== (B) Narrative technique =====

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**TASKS**

  - Read p. 6 (“Okay, yeah! … closed the door almost-all-the-way.”)
  - Can you spot [finden] what kind of narrative technique the author uses somewhere in this passage? (If you don’t find it, click on the hint below). 
  - Now that you’ve found the technique, why does John Green do this? What actually happens to the narration?
  - Who’s the narrator anyway and what’s the narrative perspective of the book?
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<hidden Show the answer to question 2>In the two paragraphs: “Both my parents … I’d be crazier than a shithouse rat.” the narrator  switches from narrating in the past tense to the present tense. </hidden>