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Tenacious Challenges In As Simple As Snow And Paper Towns
As Simple as Snow and Paper Towns draft What would you do if the person you loved just packed up and left? How would you feel? Would you go after them? To what extent would you go to get them back? Gregory and Quentin had to face some pretty tenacious challenges in both Paper Towns and As Simple As Snow. There are important characters in both As Simple As Snow and Paper Towns. They each have many similarities like their relationships and their fascination with dead people. Gregory was just an average boy. He wasn't popular and only really had one friend named Carl, but other than him he was alone. Until he met Anna. Quentin as well as G was also an outsider. He had two friends Ben, and Radar, but other than them, nobody knew him either but …show more content…

When Anna went missing G left his hometown to go find her himself. Carl didn't even consider asking him if he should come, however in Paper Towns, whenever Margo went missing, Q was going out to find her and then Ben and Radar offered to go with him even with prom on the line they still risked their time to help out there best friend. Anna took G on a wild goosechase. Before she went missing, Anna played a lot of games. She was mysterious and she made G do things just for the fun of it and keeping secrets from him that could've hurt her like the night in the car with Bryce Druitt and there were two different stories between the both of them each of them blaming the accident on eachother. On the other hand, Margo only left behind clues because she wanted people to know that she was okay and she didn't want to be found.Margo needed to figure out who she was somewhere else around people that she didn't already know. Anna and G had created a secret code, “as simple as snow”. If they ever got seperated than they could use the secret code to find eachother even whenever they werent together bu twhenever Margo went missing, she didnt need a code becaus she ddnt think that people were ever going to look for her. Anna wanted to be found and nobody will ever know if she was found but then Margo didnt even want to be found and she was

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