Margo makes it seem so easy to just run away to a new place and just let adventurers come to you. However, you need money or a job--just to eat and sleep somewhere.
shareI could think of a few things a young hot girl could do in a small town
shareI concur, you need money for everything in this world these days.
shareComfort and security cost money. But there are still possible alternatives to being a cog. Look at the freegans for instance. Certainly not everyone but doable for certain mindsets.
"I wasn't totally sure what was happening. But I knew I wanted to stab someone."
Weren't her parents loaded? I assume she was a trust fund kid. How else would she be able to do all that traveling that she did?
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Her parents looked standard upper middle class. Upper middle class people don't have trust funds.
Are you not entertained?!
Just because your parents are loaded doesn't mean every rich kid has a trust fund. Trust funds are usually part of an estate (when someone dies). Her parents are still alive, so she would be depended on them. Unless one of her grandparents set up a trust fund for her. Usually, those are disbursed when the child has reach the age of majority or even later (like 25). Until then the trust is maintained by a trustee. It could provide for partial earlier disbursements to pay for college for example).
The story doesn't say of if she worked a part time job before she left or perhaps she got an allowance from her parents. Either way, she could have save up for the trip.
Once she got there, it would be easy for her to get a job as a cashier some where. It doesn't take a lot of imagination to get there.
There are always ways to make money and live....
shareyeah, I think her parents had money. she also mentioned she talked to her sister daily. Which sounds like she had her cell phone with her. Basically, if her parents wanted to find her they could have tracked the phone, but they were clearly very pretentious and didnt care. She could have been using a credit card they gave her.
shareI agree -- it's ridiculous. Now, some people are quoting THE BOOK, but a movie has to stand on its own. In the FILM, there is no explanation for her ability to survive in a strange city, alone, with no money or skills or even a high school diploma.
The only hint is that her family is wealthy -- everyone of course has an enormous luxury home -- but there is no indication SHE has money of her own. Few parents would keep paying on a credit card for a 17 year old who left home, never calls, and they have no idea where she is for weeks (to the point of calling the police). BTW: if you are constantly charing things in "Algoe", it will be very obvious in a few days where you are. As a minor, her parents could have had the "Algoe" police just pick her up and send her back home.
I might add: there are real paper towns (and paper streets). As the movie says, they are tricks so that nobody can simply photocopy a map and then resell it. BUT....if "Algoe" has real streets and buses and a milkshake shop -- it's NOT a paper town. It's a real, viable small town. So that completely invalidates the entire PREMISE of the story, as well as the TITLE.
Have any of you ever been to Roscoe, NY? I have, and I'm guessing that she's waiting tables at the Roscoe Diner.
shareWell in the movie, Q actually had to hitch a hike to Roscoe to find that town so that town is not "Algoe". Algoe was that dump shred they went to but couldn't find her.
shareProstitution.
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Consider the daffodil. And while you're doing that I'll be over here looking through your stuff.