“Osteosarcoma is not a common cancer. Each year, about 800 new cases of osteosarcoma are diagnosed in the United States. About 400 of these are in children and teens.” (“Key Statistics”). In the movie, The Fault in Our Stars one of the main characters is Augustus Waters. Augustus dies from Osteosarcoma in the movie. I am changing the ending where he dies in the movie to where he does not die and he fights for his life to have no more cancer. Then hazel and Augustus end up getting married and live their life to the fullest possible. The reason I am changing it is because everybody should get the chance to live a happy full life and it will show that people with cancer can overcome anything and that they are not alone. Also people don’t want …show more content…
He had cancer through most of his childhood but he was currently cancer free and also had to get his leg amputated. As he got older he met a girl named Hazel Grace Lancaster, she also had cancer. They bumped into each other at support group for cancer but Augustus was just going because his friend wanted him there. His best friend was names Isaac. Ever since that day Hazel and Augustus have been infatuated with each other. It was hard for hazel to do much because of her breathing but that didn’t stop her. But sometimes it pushed her to a point where she would have breathing problems in the middle of the night and have to go to the hospital but Augustus was always there by her side. They went on dates together to the park, played video games, and watched movies together. Then their love expands when they go to Amsterdam in search for an ending to a book they both love. As they in Amsterdam, Augustus tells Hazel that he has a recurrence of his cancer and that it has spread all over his body. Hazel was devastated because she knows how it feels to go through that pain. Each day Augustus lives each day to the fullest possible because he knows his time will be soon ending. In his final days Augustus plans a prefuneral for his friend Isaac, hazel, and himself. Augustus dies a few days later. Everybody knew it was coming. This is where I will be changing the movie by Augustus not dying but he almost gets to that point where …show more content…
I changed the ending of the movie where he dies to being about him living and survive through it which shows people that you can overcome anything. Cancer is big deal in this world and becoming almost common so to put that into a movie will make this movie more popular and that is why I chose it shows the up and downs of having cancer. Also it was the number–one bestselling novel by John Green. I personally loved the movie because I like romance and how it shows the up and downs they have with their life. The reason I choose this movie was because I could relate to it by knowing close people that died or that has cancer and seeing the pain they go through by showing it in this movie. In the movie Augusts says, "That's the thing about pain. It demands to be felt." (“The Fault in Our Stars”). The movie overall was the best movie for showing the struggles and romance of the characters which is why I choose
In “Roger Ebert: The Essential Man” by Chris Jones, Ebert displays an astonishing amount of optimism despite the many hard obstacles physically and emotionally, that he has gone through. Ebert Values life differently from the rest of us because he knows what it's like to lose someone close to you. Ebert focuses on what makes him happy like his work and the good memories of his life. Ebert writes about death saying “I know it is coming, and I don not fear it”. Ebert has comes to terms with his inevitability and chooses to look on the brightside. Ebert is the type of person to not agree with putting a price tag on life. He knows that life is unique.
...son dies, it really does not mean anything to the doctors, except a free bed. This scene plus the others which take place in the hospital show change in the way that men pull together when someone is in need. The hospital scenes also show that men are so accustomed to death, they know when someone is going to die, and can tell the degree of an injury when it happens.
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.
When was the last time you felt certain of your impending future? For cancer survivor, Hazel, the answer is never. In The Fault in Our Stars, sixteen year old Hazel lives with cancer and attends a support group where she meets Augustus, another young cancer survivor who changes her outlook on the world forever. He takes Hazel on an adventure of love, friendship, and pain, and together they yearn to have authority over their uncontrollable fates. Isaac, a blind teenager, and Hazel’s mom also play significant roles in her life. Similarly, in Of Mice and Men, George and Lennie strengthen their friendship through love and suffering, and they learn that humans have some control over their end destination. At the ranch they work at, Lennie and George have to choose how they want their lives to turn out, which directly impacts the choices they will make regarding the future. While John Green’s The Fault in Our Stars and John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men both establish motifs of friendship, games, and hands, they convey different universal ideas about humanity. In particular, Green suggests that humans cannot always manipulate every situation, while Steinbeck focuses on the ideas that men often have a choice in their destinies.
Thousands of cancer patients, or any terminally ill patients, wish for life in the end, nevertheless for Vivian, who states, “It is not my intention to give away the plot; but I think I die at the end” (Edson), she knows that may not happen for her. Wit’s conclusion has a great deal to say of peaceful death and salvation and is connected to that theme of “Salvation Anxiety” since Vivian is not afraid of her cancer, Vivian 's peaceful death, and Jason and Susie 's reaction to Vivian 's death.
...ng the underlying theme that drives the story and the movie, propels the reader and viewer to rekindle the desire to hope above all else because hope is all one has in devastating as well as dire needs. Hope overcomes despair, permits others to see your “inner light” to develop integrity which connects with honesty and trust. Hope is the inspiration to continue to live regardless of the circumstances. Red may have narrated; “Let me tell you something my friend. Hope is a dangerous thing. Hope can drive a man insane.” But, Andy Dufresne states it best: “Get busy living, or get busy dying.”
The quote suggests that unfortunate events happen not because of destiny but because of the fault in characters. The three main teenage characters in this book suffer from a fate, which has in no way been caused by their actions but rather their destiny. Unlike the other characters Augustus fights to not let his destiny impact his choices, he strives to be seen as more than his illness. Augustus goes through the same struggles as any normal teenager and also the struggles of a cancer patient. Though his fate won the battle, till his death he fought being defined by his illness.
Death has a way of changing people, whether it is the passing of someone close to you or coming to terms with your own mortality, no one remains the same after dealing with death. Some people mourn in the face or death, while others are re-born and enlightened. In the novel The Fault In Our Stars by John Green, we are introduced to two adolescents that have faced death and gained different perspectives on life after doing so. When facing death, whether you’re own or someone you love, there are two types of reactions, two types of people, the “Augustus’s” and the “Hazel Grace’s”. After losing his leg, Augustus Waters decided that he wanted to make his mark on the world before he died, he was terrified of dying and feared oblivion more than anything but it was that very fear that compelled him to live the most fulfilling life possible, “I decided long ago not to deny myself the simpler pleasures of existence”(Green 11). Instead of wallowing in misery over having cancer, Gus wanted to enjoy life; he found beauty in everything, especially Hazel Grace. He lived his life through metaphors; he revolved many of his beliefs and actions around metaphors, one of his favorites was, “you put the killing thing in your mouth, but you don’t give it the power to kill you”(Green 13). I think he liked this metaphor and having a cigarette dangle between his lips so much, because unlike his cancer, which he had no control over, he could control whether or not he lit the cigarette. It made him feel like his destiny was in his own hands and under his control. Gus’s experience with death made him a more positive person, a “better” and inspirational person; he wanted to “drink stars” and live his life questioning everything. “While...
...movie that I fell in love with. But most of all I love how the story line is a great overlap into the cinematically engaging movie. There is a great use of camera, timing, shots and story line that are portrayed in this movie without being too overwhelming. This allows the audience to relax during the movie and just take in the scenes as a story from reality. To this day, and even still doing this paper I still come to find different aspects of the movie that I missed the previous times I have watched it.
Matthew’s job of working with x-ray research had left him with skin cancer that slowly deteriorated his entire body. With an estimate of only a year left to live, Matthew Donnelly laid in bed in excruciating pain for days. When Matthew’s older brother Harold
She knows that when someone has cancer, people look at them like they are a foreign being. She does not want to be seen like that. She wants to be seen as a normal teenage girl. She has a friend from highschool that she sees once in a blue moon but feels the tension every time they get together. She knows that things will never feel the same with her. When Hazel meets Augustus, a boy she met at a Cancer support group, she feels like a normal teenager. They both have cancer but act very nonchalant about it. They both live their everyday lives like it is a normal day. Hazel has a very realistic attitude. She doesn’t like when people tiptoe around the fact she has cancer but also doesn’t like it to be the topic of conversation. This helps her cope a lot. Her dry sense of humor is a huge part of her coping. That is why Augustus is such a great fit in Hazel’s life. They are both very similar in that way. Augustus once said “I love it when you talk medical to me.” (TFIOS pp. 34). To the both of them, cancer has become a normality in their lives. A great part to the way Hazel copes is that she does not care what anyone says or thinks. She does what she likes/wants. She does not care what everyone else is doing. If she did, that would just be an added, unneeded stressor in her life. Hazel also loves to read, and she uses reading as a way of coping. She constantly rereads the book “An Imperial Affliction”. Hazel says it was the closest thing she had to a bible (TFIOS pp.13). Hazel relates this book to her own life. In a way it makes her feel as if she is not alone. She mentions that the author of that book, Peter Van Houten, was the only person she had ever come across who seemed to understand what is was like to be dying but to not have died (TFIOS pp. 13). This is what she uses as a distraction. Reading kind of takes her away from the life she is living and puts her in another role. Hazel also sees cancer
I spent a lot of time considering what movie I would watch to write this essay. I listed off the movies that I would like to watch again, and then I decided on The Notebook. I didn’t really think I could write about adolescence or children, so I thought that, maybe, I could write about the elderly. The love story that The Notebook tells is truly amazing. I love watching this movie, although I cry every time I watch it. The Notebook is about an elderly man that tells the story of his life with the one he loves the most, his wife. He is telling the story to his wife, who has Alzheimer’s Disease, which is a degenerative disease that affects a person’s memory. She has no recollection of him or their life together, or even her own children. She wrote the story of their love herself, so that when he read the story to her, she would come back to him. There are three things that I would like to discuss about this movie. First, I would like to discuss their stage of life and the theory that I believe describes their stage of life the best. Second, I would like to discuss Alzheimer’s DIsease and its affect on the main character who has it and her family. Third, I would like to discuss how at the end of the movie, they died together. I know it is a movie, but I do know that it is known that elderly people who have been together for a long time, usually die not to far apart from one another.
...ir relationship Augustus shows Hazel how to live each day to its fullest. Another theme would be the courage within the characters. Hazel and Augustus are cancer patients and they are definitely tougher people because of it. The way they approach their close deaths takes a large amount of courage in itself.
After reading an excerpt from The Fault in Our Stars by John Green Agustus believes it is important to live life and view the scenery and Hazel feels like is it more important to have a focus to achieve something that will impact society or you will not be recognized. The passage starts off with the two of them in Amsterdam to see the spring snow and enjoy a classy dinner among the canal. Sitting outside at the restaurant “The slight chill in the air” reminded Hazel of their terminal illnesses, she attempts to distract herself by mention the wonderful scenery before observing the canal. (Green 8) When observing the canal Hazel mentions how “the canal was choked with millions of the confetti seeds.” later describing the boats as near sinking.(Green
Augustus Waters: Augustus was an amazing basketball player, that is until he got cancer and an amputated leg that came with it. But Augustus doesn't let that stop him from living his life. He tries to have a regular life; going out with friends, socializing, and living life to the fullest. When Isaac drags Augustus to a cancer support group, he meets Hazel and is immediately drawn to her. He feels the need to talk to her. When