Book Review
John Green, The Fault In Our Stars, Young Adult fiction, romance Hospital, support group, Indiana Hazel Lancaster Grace: She is diagnosed with Stage 4 Thyroid cancer with metastasis forming in her lungs, but has managed to live with her disease owing to doses of an experimental drug called Phalanxifor 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
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Late in the book, however, Hazel and the reader find that for the past year Frannie has been pursuing a Masters in Social Work online.
Michael Lancaster, Hazel's father: Michael Lancaster is incredibly emotionally invested in Hazel's survival, though he must continue working to support the family and so appears less in the novel and knows less about Hazel's illness and treatment. Hazel's father cries often, leading to more guilt on Hazel's part that she is going to leave her family devastated when she dies.
Peter van Houten: Peter van Houten is the American author of a fictional novel within The Fault in Our Stars, An Imperial Affliction. He is an witty, mean older man and an alcoholic, nothing like Hazel had imagined when reading the book so many times. van Houten keeps up a correspondence with Gus that leads to Gus and Hazel visiting him in Amsterdam, though the visit is largely unsuccessful. However, van Houten attends Gus's funeral in America and attempts to apologize to Hazel, whereupon she realizes that he had a young daughter who died of
The film Friday Night Lights, directed by Peter Berg explains a story about a small town in Odessa, Texas that is obsessed to their high school football team (Permian Panthers) to the point where it’s strange. Boobie Miles (Derek Luke) is an cocky, star tailback who tore his ACL in the first game of the season and everyone in the town just became hopeless cause their star isn’t playing for a long time. The townspeople have to now rely on the new coach Gary Gaines (Billy Bob Thornton), to motivate the other team members to be able to respect, step up their game, and improve quickly. During this process, racism has made it harder to have a success and be happy and the team has to overcome them as a family.
At this stage of the story we are compelled to feel a little bit sorry for Charlie who has been separated from his father.
At the end of the book when Augustus dies, Hazel has to realize that life must go on. She feels like she was robbed of her one true love. Even though what she feels is incredibly painful, she is there to support Augustus’s family. She realizes that she is not the only one hurting, even though she lost the love of her life.
Throughout life individuals face many challenges testing their values and personality one situation at a time. In the evocative novel The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton themes of growing up and innocence are shown. Ponyboy is not your average 14 year old he is part of a gang known to many as the Greasers. He encounters many situations testing his values and beliefs. Having lost both his parents recently he and his brothers stick together like a true family but this relationship is tested when Darry hits Ponyboy. He also experiences the loss several close friends in a very short period of time. Throughout this novel, Ponyboy encounters many life changing experiences that prove he is a dynamic character.
The Silver linings playbook is a movie that showcases the life of a family obsessed with the Eagles. The wife of Pat Salatino Sr allows their son to get out of a mental institution without the knowledge of the doctors or his father after being in the institution for eight months. Pat Salatano Jr had been institutionalized because he had physically abused a man, who was alleged to be Nikki’s lover. The court had ordered him to be put in the Maryland mental institution after being diagnosed with a bipolar disorder. He moves in with his parents after the discharge and refuses to take his medications because they make him feel unwell. However, he has mandatory therapy sessions to help him improve his condition. The case conceptualization of this paper is a character from the movie, the Silver Linings Playbook. Pat’s mother thinks that Pat has not fully recovered from his mental condition after being released prematurely from the mental institution.
Silver Linings Playbook is a great film based on a novel by Matthew Quick that was released in 2012. This movie is about a man name Pat Solatano who trys to find his silver lining in life, but things get a little difficult for him as he tries to patch up everything from his past. The director of this movie is the well-known American film director David O. Russell. The main characters of the film are Pat Solatano, Pat Solatano Sr. Pat's father, Dolores Solatano Pat's mother, Nikki Pat's ex-wife, Dr. Cliff Patel Pat's doctor, Tiffany Pat’s secret lover, and Danny Pat’s best friend. After losing his job, his wife, and being sent to a mental institution for bipolar disorder, Pat wants to beat the odds and become a better person. After being sent
The reader sees how detached Hazel appears to be from other women in this story. She can’t understand why they are allowed to be sad but when she appears sad she’s told to smile and how nobody wants to hear about other’s troubles. In fact there are only three women who Hazel holds conversations with at all in the story. The first is her neighbor who lives across the hall while she is married to Herbie. In Mrs. Martin she finds herself an escape from her trapped and unfulfilling life. They drink and play cards with a group of men referred to as “the boys.” This appears to be the only real friend she has through the entire story although they have a falling out based on the men in their life. The next woman is Mrs. Miller whom upon an exchange in the bathroom leads Hazel to the pills she will use in her suicide attempt. The final character is Nettie the colored maid who nurses Hazel back to life after she tries to take her own life. This appears to be a way for the author to explain the tension among women at this time. All the women in Parker’s story are trying to maintain the appearance that society has allotted them. Were some might think this would draw women together in fact made them further separated because they were all afraid of showing the crack in their own “good sport” personalities.
Thyroid cancer is one of the main conflicts in John Green’s novel, The Fault in Our Stars. Hazel Grace, the protagonist, has papillary thyroid cancer that has metastasized to the lungs. Her disease precludes her from carrying a healthy relationship with her love interest, Augustus Waters, and the reader sees how difficult it is to live a normal life with such a life-threatening disease as cancer. There are many different causes as to why people contract thyroid cancer even though it only accounts for 1% of all cancer in the United States (Sarge 1). Furthermore, there are four subtypes of thyroid cancer with different intensities: papillary, follicular, medullary, and anaplastic. Each type of thyroid cancer comes with a different type of treatment care such as chemotherapy, thyroidectomies, and hormone therapy (Sarge 2).
Hazel should be dead, she was an willing daughter, even if her mother was consumed by greed. She used her powers to put the
Now, both of their parents had passed away when they died in a tragic accident. Ivy cried for months and so did Hazel, but inside, Hazel didn’t really care about her parent’s death. Because of her parents’ lack of love for her, she refused to show any love to anyone, even her own family. For years after the death of their parents, Hazel and Ivy lived together in a small house, where Hazel was always in control of her younger sister.
The book opens with a young Hazel Grace being dropped off by her mother to a meeting for a cancer patient support group. She notices a young man who she does not recognize staring at her. As the introductions are made, she finds out that his name is Augustus Waters and that he is a friend of, Isaac, who is will be getting surgery and will go blind. The two only make introductions at the end of the meeting, and he tells her that she resembles Natalie Portman in V for Vendetta. Hazel admits that she has never seen the movie, to which Augustus invites Hazel over to his house to watch it. As they are waiting in the parking lot of the church, he pulls out a cigarette. Hazel gets upset until Augustus reveals to her that it is a metaphor. He never lights them, and thus they will not kill him.
As college professors, do you ever consider exploring the world? Christopher McCandless once stated, “The core of man's spirit comes from new experiences.” This quote resonates throughout the movie adaptation, Into the Wild. Based on a true story in the 1990’s, the film explores a man’s existence and the meaning of life. Although released in 2007, I discovered the movie three years ago through the internet. Instantly, it became my favorite movie. Into the Wild describes an eye-opening adventure, an influential message, and a story that I, and possibly others, can relate to.
“As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.” Even before she admits it to him, Hazel is totally and completely taken up by Augustus Waters. She can hardly control it, just like other people can't stop liking her. Cancer is irrelevant at this moment—and it's pretty amazing. Hazel falls in love with Augustus so quickly i think that it foreshadows carelessness and ignorance to what will happen next. I also believe it foreshadows what Green could be trying to get across to us throughout the book at the climax of the novel. This quote could also represent
Peter van Houten replies after few days informing him that although he can not answer his request and tell what have happened to the characters from the book via internet, he invites both Augustus and Hazel to come and visit him in Amsterdam. While Hazel and Gus begin to plan their trip to Europe, their excitement gets cooled down by her parents who inform them that their finances are do not allow them to cover for the trip.
The Kite Runner, written by Khaled Hosseini, depicts the life of Amir, a male from Afghanistan, and his maturation through the social and political turmoil that emerged in Afganistan. Although the story is fictitious, the plot and storyline involves political, social, and cultural problems in Afghanistan. The book also provides a small window of contrast to the contemporary problems of terrorism, cultural battles and coup d'etat in the middle east.