All The Missing Girls

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Missing: Absent from a place, especially home, and of unknown whereabouts. Each year, there are over 500,000 reports of missing people, in which most are found, but not always alive; police record over 100,000 missing persons in canada a year. (http://missingpersonsinformation.ca/resources/reasons-why-adults-go-missing/) Women, are more commonly found missing then men, usually as their kidnapper causing them to go missing, is male. In the novel, All the Missing Girls, two large female roles of the story turn up missing. After the 2 young girls are declared missing, there missing circumstance is declared as unknown, so the main character, Nic, sets out to find out what really happened. In this article, it will include the causes, treatment, and effects of missing people using both, scenarios from the book, and real life situations.
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According to the Missing Persons website, “at least 12 family members are affected whether it is emotionally, physically, psychologically or financially. For families, not knowing what has happened to someone they love is extremely hard. For the missing person themselves it is often difficult to find the support they require to address their situation. Also, the community is often given Awareness of the issue and encouraged to give community support, and search mechanisms.” (https://www.missingpersons.gov.au/find-out-more-about-missing-persons/impacts-missing-persons) In the novel, when Nik found out her best friend has been classified as missing, she lost it and broke down, “When I went from feeling nothing to everything and couldn't stop screaming because it turned out the everything was blinding pain.” (Miranda, 153),she then left her hometown unable to live there without her. 4 years later, she returned to search for her best friend and find out where she really

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