If you could meet one of the characters, what one question would you like to ask them and why? If I could meet and ask one of the characters a question I would pick Jamie and ask her why she stopped the treatments and also how she stayed so strong through it all. I would ask her those questions because cancer is not easy to have. How did she stay so strong for years? Jamie has been dying for a few years and has maintained to stay healthy for this long. She had faith in the Lord and belief in her mother that she has never even met. Jamie Sullivan and her father continued to keep her sickness a hidden tragedy. On Jamie’s last year of living she spends it by helping people not just worrying about her leukemia. Jamie Sullivan has a list of things that she would like to do before she passes and number one is to get married in the church that her parents had gotten married in. Also, she is one of the smartest, intelligent students in her class. Although Jamie will not attend college she still strives for the best. Jamie Sullivan has a great attitude about her life situation and still manages to stay positive. She admits to being scared every so often as she waits till her last breath. In her last year of living she meets a boy …show more content…
Once Jamie tells Landon about her cancer everything changes. Jamie Sullivan stayed strong for four years and fought against the leukemia for as long as she could. Knowing she also loved Landon as well as him loving her to she told him the truth about stopping the treatments. Her number one wish on her list was to get married in the church her father and mother had gotten married in, that wish came true. Landon Carter asked Jamie Sullivan to marry him. They got married in the church as another one of her wishes came true. The miracle Jamie wanted was Landon. She had gotten her miracle and also lived the best life that she could
Rebecca and Tom head to Omaha, when they get to the hospital, the medical staff begin tests and blood work. Rebecca says, "I'm tired of being poked and prodded"(Perl, 1995). Rebecca states that she never thought she would be the one in the hospital because her husband had a kidney transplant, her brother was diagnosed with leukemia, and she is a health reporter(Perl,1995). On December 10th, Rebecca found out that her previous chemotherapy had not made the tumor any smaller(Perl,1995). Rebecca starts a more powerful form of chemotherapy, but later she finds out that it is not shrinking the tumor either, so her stem cells are filtered out of her blood and they are saved until after her chemotherapy. Rebecca finally has her transplant and soon after she starts feeling very sick. She said, " I feel fragile, anxious, and sick"(Perl,1995). Rebecca admits to Lorraine Brazier, her friend Graham's wife, that if it was not for her son she probably would not fight as hard for her life(Perl,1995). Two days after the transplant, Rebecca is back in the hospital because her heart rate reached 190 beats per minute. Since it is unknown what may have caused her heart rate to increase the doctors decide they are not going to treat the condition. Four days after Rebecca's transplant she is diagnosed with RSV and she was isolated. She had to be on a machine and wear a mask for eighteen hours a day. Finally Rebecca receives some good news, the stem cells that were transplanted are growing and reproducing new cells(Perl,1995).
Murderer, liar, manipulator; these are only a few words that describe the enigmatic Sergeant John Wilson. In the historical book, The Secret Lives of Sgt. John Wilson: A True Story of Love & Murder, written by Lois Simmie, we get acquainted with the complex balancing act of a life John Wilson lived. We find out about his two-faced love life, the bloody solution, and the elaborate cover up. In Simmie’s thought-provoking book, John Wilson abandons his family in Scotland, for a better life in Canada on the force. John battles debilitating sickness along with the decision to double-cross his wife. His young love interest Jessie cares for him as he battles tuberculosis. While, “many young women Jessie’s age would have had second thoughts about commitment
1) Our quester(s): two seventeen-year-old, broken teenagers. Theodore Finch, a bipolar boy that thinks about his death 24/7 but doesn’t want to die, and Violet Markey, a misunderstood popular girl
Cancer affects Hazel Grace, Augustus Waters, and their families deeply, it represents the lost, hope, and surprise of cancer often, but this is not only true in books,it also affects people in real life, parents start to view their kids differently, and the children start to view themselves as nothing but disease, and the culture they once had starts to change. Augustus Waters and Hazel Grace each have their own struggles, Hazel suffers from thyroid cancer and is terminal, Augustus had been cured, but it popped back making his body full of cancer, he as well ending up with terminal cancer. Often organizations and people would give them a little bit more because they are kids who had inevitability of death to look to. They both having to deal with the fact that they never knew what was coming, or if Hazel would lose Augustus first or if Augustus will lose Hazel first, though eventually that fact became obvious. Their families treat them in a way if they were healthy, they wouldn’t be treated in such a way. In real life there are hundreds who suffer cancer, but less who are terminal. Families have to learn how to deal with this, especially when the person is an adolescent. There are point where The Fault in Our Stars shows how different society becomes for those with cancer, and this is true in real life. Augustus Waters and Hazel Grace experiences and cancer let us view the world of cancer for several.
One of the main themes of this novel is the fight against cancer. All three of the main characters struggle with cancer. Hazel struggles with her terminal lung cancer, and Isaac has to have his eyes removed because of cancer. Augustus, who has already lost a leg to Osteoscarcoma, struggles with his cancer returning. However, they all learn through this that their cancer does not control them. They still live their lives to the fullest that they can, and make the best of what they have.
Though there are several patients featured, the story centers around Cody Curtis, a woman who was diagnosed with liver cancer. At 56, she is a beautiful woman who doesn’t appear to be sick. She seems healthy and happy. However she is in constant pain and is suffering greatly. She is given a diagnosis of only six months left to live and sets a date to choose to die. She has complete control over when she will die. She can make peace with those around her and complete her life before she dies. She says that death with dignity won’t be easy, but it would be easier than the alternatives. However, she outlives her diagnosis and her quality of life continues to improve. When things take a turn for the worst, she decides to end her
Have you ever felt so much guilt and shame that you want to kill yourself? Francis Cassavant in Heroes, by Robert Cormier, is a realistic and relatable character who has suffered from this feeling ever since he was little. Even as a child, he has felt unusual and out of place compared to everyone else. Francis’s characteristics determine his actions throughout his story and motivate him to join the army, beginning his expedition as a so-called “hero”.
Before going to Alaska, Chris McCandless had failed to communicate with his family while on his journey; I believe this was Chris’s biggest mistake. Chris spent time with people in different parts of the nation while hitchhiking, most of them whom figured out that McCandless kept a part of him “hidden”. In chapter three, it was stated that Chris stayed with a man named Wayne Westerberg in South Dakota. Although Westerberg was not seen too often throughout the story, nevertheless he was an important character. Introducing himself as Alex, McCandless was in Westerberg’s company for quite some time: sometimes for a few days, other times for several weeks. Westerberg first realized the truth about Chris when he discovered his tax papers, which stated that “McCandless’s real name was Chris, not Alex.” Wayne further on claims that it was obvious that “something wasn’t right between him and his family” (Krakauer 18). Further in the book, Westerberg concluded with the fact that Chris had not spoken to his family “for all that time, treating them like dirt” (Krakauer 64). Westerberg concluded with the fact that during the time he spent with Chris, McCandless neither mentioned his
Coping with her father's death is a struggle, yet Francie begins to live life again with the love of her family and by keeping herself preoccupied with other tasks.
Christopher Johnson McCandless, a.k.a Alexander Supertramp, “Master of his Own Destiny.” He was an intelligent young man who presented himself as alone but really he was never lonely. However, he believed that life was better lived alone, with nature, so he ventured off throughout western United States before setting off into Alaska’s wild unprepared where he died. Some may say he was naive to go off on such a mission without the proper food and equipment but he was living life the way he wanted to and during his travels he came across three people: Jan Burres, Ronald Franz, and Wayne Westerberg. McCandless befriended these people, it is believed that he made such a strong impression on them that their connection left them with strange feelings after finding out about McCandless’ death.
The book is written by Pamela Tucker Burton, an ordinary person who experienced the death of four family members, she shares her experiences and how a family stay positive, when they faced a deadly disease. In Pamela’s family were no cancer survivors, there were no encouraging sentiments to alleviate their pain. For a family with strong Christian beliefs the only healing and strength for their family was to pray, don’t be afraid and be spiritually prepared for the final journey.
Although she wears no red badge of courage, she has seen no battlefields, yet her eyes have faced the grim, hellish, satanic, nightmare of war. She has felt the brutal, savage, agonizing pain as if being hit by an M16 Assault Rifle. Sinking her teeth and claws so sharp into the depths of her illness, she has held her own against the world’s most fierce, murderous disease known as cancer. It lives at the base of her brain, throbbing with the red blood of life, trying to escape into the vital parts of her being. Throughout all of this, my cousin Kayla, has shown such strength, determination, courage, lion-heartedness and tenacity. Not only is Kayla a hero, an inspiration, she became a spokesperson for The American Cancer Society and was chosen Hero of Hope class of 2015.
In the book report done by Natalie Standiford, The Tenacity of Hope she compares two novels; The Fault in our Stars and The Probability of Miracles. Her comparisons were thorough and clear. Each is about teen girls who are battling cancer. The author compares each novel and sets her opinion on the path each story takes. Though they are very similar and start by describing the harsh realities of cancer. The two stories take very different paths. I’m sure many of us have known someone who has battled cancer or known someone who has lost their life to cancer. Cancer is a tough subject, when it comes to a story about a young person having cancer in book or movie form how should “hope” of survival be portrayed and what realities, if any, should be shown or described?
The movie Wit by Mike Nichols, showed the true horror of death by chemotherapy though the life of Dr. Vivian Bearing diagnosed with stage 4 ovarian cancer. The movie followed Vivian from the time she found out about her cancer to the moment that she passed, though this time Vivian also shared memories that related back to what was going on now in her life. During her stay in the hospital there were three people who impacted her stay the most; Doctor Kelekian who was her oncologist, Doctor Posner the Medical student involved in her case, and Nurse Monahan her primary care nurse. Let’s look at all three of Vivian care takers, along with Vivian herself, and a moment that really showed the true colors of the individual.
...it as long as she could. She did not want to go through treatments. She was found dead in the nurses’ station on the fifth floor of the hospital. She hung herself with an extension cord. The note found in her pocket said, “I hope a cure is on its way for those that are still here.” She left through the chute that I now walk through. Michelle and Shirley became ill shortly after that. They tried the traditional treatments and then the experimental treatments. They were not strong enough to make it, and died while having surgery. I am one of the lucky ones. I am still here. I have seen too much death for one person. I am still glad that I took this job years ago, but as I walk down the hill I know that my life will never be the same. I get into my car and never look back. I hope someday that they make a memorial of this place in honor of lives lost.