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Nya and Princess Gie Gie, from A Long Walk To Water by Linda Sue Park and The Water Princess by Susan Verde, go everyday to fetch water. They have their similarities and they also have their differences, they both go and get water for their families and Princess Gie Gie has one trip to the pond and Nya has two trips to the pond a day. For example there similarites are that they both go to the pond and collect water, they both have to walk a long way, but Nya walks by her self and Princess Gie Gie walks with her mom. In addition in the text it said ‘My mother wakes me. “Gie Gie, my princess, it is time to get up. We must collect the water.”’ (Verde 9). However they have there diffrences for instance Nya takes two trips to the pond and Princess
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