The book the fault in our star was set in contemporary times somewhere in the north America. The book follows the life of hazel grace, 16-year-old girl with terminal cancer. To appease her mother, hazel frequently attend a cancer support group where she meets augustus waters, a 17-year-old handsome cancer survival . augustus and hazel’s relationship grows quickly through a shared and understanding of living with cancer and things turn around when augustus died. The book basically expanciate on love triumphs over struggle and hardship among teenagers with health problem. To begin with, the two teenagers in the novel were struggling with a cancer problem. Hazel grace suffer from stage 4 thyroid cancer with metastasis forming in her lung which affect her breathing. “when you read a cancer booklet or website,you always think about it if you are one of …show more content…
the victim”(p.158). hazel grace was unable to breath properly without the help of a breathing tool called planxifor that generate air into her lungs for a proper breathing. Augustus waters on the other hand also suffer from a cancer called osteosarcoma which result into amputating on of his leg. He uses an artificial leg in replacement of his amputated leg,inorder for him to walk properly. similarly, augustus and hazel are both have a cancer that damages part of their body. Nevertheless, hazel is relatively isolated due to her cancer and she always talks about dying, but augustus is extroverted and socializes with friends.
Hazel does not spend time to socialize or hangout with friends. She prfer been friends with her novel. “I rarely left the house,spent quite a lot of time in bed, read books over”(p.3). hazel always reread novel and keeps herself indoor everytime. Hazel’s mother complain a lot about her having friends to spend quality times with,instead of sitting back at home all day. Unlike hazel, augustus spend a lot of his time with friends. He does not thinks too much on his cancer problem. Augustus was that kind of human being who does not bothered with whatever situation they might be going through. Although, both hazel and augustus were cancer victim ,but there way of life is different from one
another. Furthermore, hazel’s parent care much about her health wellness,but augustus parent doesn’t pay much attention to him. Hazel’s parent were always concern about hazel’s survival by showing her a lot of love and care. “mom drove me directly from school to bookstore and to the mall to get me new stuff” (p.44). her father cries everytime, because of hazel health situation. Her mother also stop working just to have much time to look after hazel’s well being, compared to augustus parent who does not really care much on his health wellness. Augustus parent doesn’t showed him much love, probably because they had other children. In comparison, it can be easily understood that hazel was loved and been cared for by her parent ,because she was the only child they have and they don’t want to loose her,compared to augustus parent who still have hope in some other children they had. In conclusion, the novel moral lesson generally based on love triumphs over struggle and hardship teens goes through. It elaborate on the life of two teenagers that were a victim of cancer,but at the same time, they share quite similarities and differences among one another.
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.
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Life is a complicated process. It’s filled with many things that keep it interesting but at the same time, very dull. Life’s what you make it and for many, it’s something we all strive for. In the story, The Space Between, the author takes full advantage of the premise as there’s rarely a dull moment- as in life. The book is filled with many literary devices that work nicely with the plot and dialogue. These include; metaphors, similes, irony, personification, and many more. We follow a young man who is finding his way in the world. He has only a week to change his life for the better. But he will face many obstacles on the way that brings the readers into a startling and fun journey.
At the end she risks her life and becomes a pretty to become and experiment to David’s moms to test a cure to the brain lesions created when they go ... ... middle of paper ... ... o save them from going through a transformation that will change them forever. The moral of the book is you don’t have to get surgery to look a certain way.
Nancy Hazel, later to become known as Nannie Doss, was born on November 4th, 1905 in Blue Mountain, Alabama. Nannie was one of five children of Jim Hazle and Louisa Holder Hazle. She endured an abusive, despondent youth with an oppressive, unfeeling father. Nannie never learned to read well, and her education was erratic due to her father pulling her out of school during the sixth grade to help work on the farm. Nancy was a prisoner in her own home. Her mother, however, was viewed as adoring and gracious to Nannie and her three sisters. Both Nannie and her mother hated James, who was a strict, often controlling father and husband with a nasty streak (http://murderpedia.org/female.D/d/doss-nannie.htm). Her most loved diversion was understanding her mother 's romantic books and longing for a romantic eventual fate of her own. Eventually, Nannie would become obsessed in her mission for the ideal spouse and romance.
According to Psychological Today,“Psychologists find that human beings have a fundamental need for inclusion in group life and for close relationships.” Without people that others need for fundamental reasons, the effects can change them as a person. In Of Mice and Men, the two main characters, George and Lennie, are working at a new ranch. They meet new people and try not to get into trouble. However, not everyone is included in the group. Some are left out and may become lonely. George and Lennie on the other hand have each other in a compelling friendship. In The Fault in Our Stars, Hazel, a girl with cancer, has been impacted by the one and only Augustus Waters. They are both cancer victims and end up falling for each other. They go on a trip to Amsterdam and meet Peter Van Houten, who is getting a little lonely. Throughout the novel, they are at their strongest and weakest points in life and need each other to get through it. Of Mice and Men and The Fault in Our Stars are similar in how they demonstrate themes such as the negative effects of loneliness and the value of friendship.
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.
Since the protagonist leads the story as a narrator, the loneliness of the narrator is depicted through internal and external conflicts that arise by situations and the feelings of being alone. The first person point of view allows readers to be immersed in her situation easily. For instance, no one gives her love after she gets measles first which further get extended to Porphyria. The narrator’s father does
He lost his best friend, who he spends a great deal of time living alongside. It is unjustifiable to lose a friend, especially for no reason or due to an uncontrollable disease while having to watch in absolute terror not being able to help, but only wish and prey. Subsequently, simultaneous to losing a friend he is struggling to progress on in life during school and extracurricular activities, “none of the boys had ever made overtures of friendship towards him” (Selvadurai 26). Imagine not having any friends in addition to feeling a sense of isolation, only being able to rely on
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.
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Although close friends strengthen one against the troublesome events in life and provide a release for the protagonists' thoughts, they have their drawbacks. Friends need attention and support of their own. In many instances all that they can offer is their judgment and criticism. Portia, one of Zora's close friends in Disappearing Acts, explains the need for independence from advice by sa...
The novel starts off with a young 16-year-old girl named Hazel with thyroid cancer that has spread to her lungs. She serves as the witty narrator and makes death seem like nothing to be afraid of. Augustus Waters, a 17-year-old formally diagnosed with Osteosarcoma, is in remission but has lost a leg due to his cancer. From the beginning, John Green makes readers feel suspenseful as to when or if Hazel is going to die and break Augustus’s heart. But when Augustus goes back into remission, a twist is added to the story and Hazel becomes the healthier partner in their relationship. Hazel and Augustus’s love is put to the test as Augustus’s health deteriorates more and more each day. Readers are sitting on the edge of their seats, as they must wait to see what the fate of this courageous couple will be.
...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.
The Fault in Our Stars was written in January of 2010 by John Green. The story is narrated by sixteen-year-old cancer patient Hazel Gr...