In this movie there are a lot of quotes which I love, but when Augustus said with an unlit cigarette hanging from his lips, “It’s a metaphor, see: You put the killing thing right between your teeth, but you don’t give it the power to do its killing.” Augustus shows that when his health is surely not the best, he associates the unlit cigarette with taking control over his health, which often feels out of his control. This novel, one of the many things it taught me is that everyone dies. Well that is command sense, but never really thought about it because of the fear of dying. There is nothing we can do to stop the process of dying, or all the side-effects of dying. Cancer and depression are just side-effects of dying.
The book The Fault in Our Stars by John Green is a book about a dying girl who falls in love with a dying boy. The main characters are Hazel Grace and Augustus Waters. Hazel Grace is a girl who has all types of cancer and has difficulty breathing. She is a very negative person, yet still is a very happy girl, knowing she has cancer and she won’t make it very long in life. Augustus Waters is a boy who previously has had cancer and got his leg amputated when suddenly the cancer returns.
The Fault in Our Stars book report In this book, John Green takes us to into a world of a sixteen year old girl’s life battling cancer and falling in love despite her views on love. The main character’s name is Hazel, who is fighting thyroid cancer. Her cancer is terminal, meaning she will die at some point in time. She says her best friends are her parents and a book called Imperial Infliction, which she claims is almost as perfect as the Bible. Her parents believe she is depressed, so they send her to a Support Group where many other cancer patients gather.
John Green’s The Fault in Our Stars is a hilarious and heartbreaking love story about teenagers Hazel Grace and Augustus Waters and their battles with cancer and ultimately death. It would be the typical girl-meets-boy love at first sight type of story if it hadn’t been the fact that they meet at a support group for young adults struggling with cancer. Despite uncertain futures and complicated medical statuses, Hazel and Augustus fall in love with all the exhilaration and excitement and promises of forever that makes this novel all the more devastating. The underlying themes and messages, I would argue, is what made this book an incredible read in the sense that all of the characters contributed to a few common and simple ideas, making the story of the duo’s adventures fly by. To begin, one of the most evident themes in The Fault in Our Stars is coming in terms with your mortality.
From the moment in which she is diagnosed breast cancer, her anger is shown at all times: “The X ray is successful but apparently alarming to the invisible radiologist, off in some remote office, who calls the shots and never has the courtesy to show her face with an apology or an explanation.” In addition, when explaining how people share in Internet their experience with breast cancer and express their feelings, she agree’s with the negative messages such as Geri’s: “IT IS NOT O.K!”. However, after reading her essay I have realized that at some point I agree with Ehrenreich. Are you supposed to be happy when you are diagnosed with a disease that threatens your life? Is this really a situation that makes you “rethink your life” and become more positive? One of the testimonies Barbara mentions in her essay, seems a bit
"Every one of them turned out to have some cancerous characteristics," she said. Surgeries to remove the growths have left the 23-year-old with 35 scars so far. With no family history of melanoma, she is convinced that her time in tanning beds caused her cancer. Now you would never want this to ever happen to a loved one. I began to worry and I believe this can happen to the best of us.
2) Augustus’ ongoing reminder of his first battle of cancer through his prosthetic leg as well as the struggle of his second, and last battle of Osteosarcoma, the cancer that has overtaken him. In addition, he struggles to keep the fact that his cancer has returned from Hazel, the girl he loves, as he doesn’t want to be selfish and leave her wounded. 3) Hazel struggles to be a normal teenager for she has to carry
While reading the novel My Sister’s Keeper it took me back to the year my mom died, just like Kate she too needed a kidney but wasn’t as fortunate to live long enough for it to happen. More depth into the book I began to put myself in all of the characters shoes, Kate and Anna were both brave. Anna was brave because she kept undergoing surgery for her sister donating stem cells, bone marrow, and blood which were all not easily done. Kate is also brave because she never once complained; she loved her sister more than herself and she already knew her fate was decided. ”My sister’s the one who’s always had to imagine life without me”.
Attorney Campbell Alexander (Alec Baldwin) agrees to work for Anna pro bono. The film is interlaced with flashbacks that detail the strong relationship between Kate and Anna, as well as how Kate's illness has affected her siblings' lives. Before the result of the case is known, it is revealed that Kate had asked Anna to file for medical emancipation. Believing that she would not survive the surgery, Kate wants to die. Anna wins the case, and due to her sister's wishes does not donate her kidney.
Lucky seems happy to be working for Dove as well as living with him and there seem to be a light ahead for him. Yet after a couple of deals gone wrong, and the breaking of a rule Dove had made, Lucky is shot in the head. Firstly I want to discuss if his lifestyle was chosen by himself or if it just was a path he was set upon. Lucky is only fifteen years old. He’s living at home in the beginning, but gets kicked out by his parents because of his drug addiction.