Will Grayson, Will Grayson

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The novel “Will Grayson, Will Grayson” by John Green and David Levithan is about two teenagers of the same namesake whose lives intersect through an unlikely coincidence. The two main characters are both named Will Grayson and live in the Chicago suburbs Evanston and Naperville. Will Grayson I is a quiet, intelligent guy whose theory in life is that if you shut up and don’t care, nothing can hurt you. He is constantly overshadowed by his larger-than-life best friend Tiny Cooper, who tirelessly attempts to set him up with their friend Jane. Will Grayson II suffers from depression and has a negative outlook on the world. He has few friends, including Maura, a gothic girl with feelings for him, which he does not have in return. These two characters meet by chance one windy evening in a magazine store in Chicago. Will Grayson I is upset, because Jane persuaded him to get a fake ID so they could see a concert at a 21+ bar, but the man who made the ID marked his age as 20 years old, and he was left outside the bar, ditched by his friends. Will Grayson II was supposed to meet up with his online friend Isaac. He had been instant messaging Issac every day for an entire year, and he had begun to fall in love with him. Upon arriving at their designated meeting place, Will Grayson II soon realizes Isaac is not there. He then gets a call from Maura, telling him that she had been pretending to be Isaac all along as a cruel joke, and that he didn’t really exist. The two Will Graysons sit outside on a bench, Will Grayson II in complete devastated shock. Tiny and Jane come find them, and Tiny ends up comforting Will Grayson II. As the story goes on, they fall in love with each other, but ultimately break up and remain friends. Will Grayson I gets together with Jane, and she leaves her old boyfriend for him. Tiny works vigorously throughout the book to put on the play he is

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