Hazel Grace Lancaster was a shy and depressed girl who knows she’s going to die soon, she met, Augustus Waters, (Gus) a smooth talking boy who knows what he wants. Gus changed Hazel’s whole life by just meeting at a cancer meeting. After the meeting they were outside and he asked her out to go see a movie, and right after that he pulls out a cigarette and puts it in his mouth. Hazel asked why are you doing that! That is Disgusting! Gus says to her it’s a metaphor. Hazel says, A Metaphor? Yep, you see you put the thing that does the killing between your teeth, but you don’t give it the power to do the killing. So there for it’s a metaphor. With Augustus’s smooth moves and Hazel charmingness, they slowly fall in love with each other. Hazel gets …show more content…
That is why Gus’s driving skills put Hazel in a risk. He’s all over the road. Hazel reacts to carrying an oxygen tanks around all the time, by not being able to walk up and own that many steps unless she tries, but it doesn’t kill her. Augustus since he lost his leg knee down he can’t drive great and has a limp in his walk. Hazel’s oxygen tank is visible to the naked eye. Gus’s robotic leg as he likes to call it is not visible unless he wears shorts. On the contrary they both have lost something to cancer. Hazel lost her freedom to go up and down …show more content…
Van Houten, I’m a good person but a bad writer. You’re a bad person,but a good writer. I think we’d make a good team. I don’t want to ask you for any favors,but, if you have the time(and from what I saw you have plenty please fix this for me. It’s a eulogy for Hazel. She asked me to write one but I’m trying,I-Ijust… I could use a little flair. See, the thing is, weall want to be remembered. But Hazel is different. Hazel knows the truth. She did ‘nt want a milllion admirers all she wanted was one.Maybe she wasn’t loved widely,but she was loved deeply. And isn’t that more than most of us get? When Hazel was sick, I knew I was dying, but I did not want to say so.She was in the ICU when Isnck in for 10 minutes before I got caught. Her eyes were closed, her skin pale, but her hands were still her hands.Stilll warm and her nails were painted a dark black-blue color and I just held them.And I willed myself to imagine a world without us,and what a worthless world that would be.What else ? She is so beautiful.You don’t get tried of looking at her.You never think she’s smarter than you because you know she is.She is funny without ever being mean. I love her. I am so lucky to love her, Van Houten.You don’t get to choose if you get hurt in this world, old man, but you do have some say in who hurts you.I like my choices.I hope she likes hers. Okay Hazel Grace?” Hazel says
Contrast. Tone. Metaphors. These literary elements are all used in Ken Kesey’s One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s in relation to a larger theme in the novel – confidence. In the book, a man named McMurphy is put into a mental ward run by Nurse Ratched, who has complete power and control over the men. They all fear her and submit to her due to fear, suppressing their confidence and manhood. When McMurphy came, he was like a spark that ignites a roaring fire in the men; they gain back the confidence that they lost and become free. In one passage, McMurphy takes the men on a fishing trip where he helps them stray away from the Nurse’s power and learn to believe in themselves. Throughout the passage, the use of contrast, positive tone, and metaphors of
In society it is a person’s duty to teach others what they do not know. People do not need to tell others of their knowledge, but in order for society to function together people must all be taught the basics of reality. In the parable “Allegory of the Cave” the author and philosopher, Plato, uses hypothetical situation, rhetorical questions, and diction to tell his audience that a person’s reality depends on the environment they are raised in, and how it is the responsibility of the ones knowledgeable to teach others so society can thrive with most of the same beliefs.
Ken Kesey incorporates figurative language into his novel, One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest, to illustrate the struggle to overcome the comfort of inaction, that ultimately results in the great benefit of standing up for one’s self. When McMurphy decides to stand up to Nurse Ratched, there is “no fog” (130). Kesey’s metaphor of the fog represents the haze of inaction that hovers over the patients of the ward. With the oppressive Nurse Ratched in charge, the patients are not able to stand up for themselves and are forced to be “sly” to avoid her vicious punishments (166). When the patients avoid confrontation with the Nurse, they are guaranteed safety by hiding in the fog, complaisant with their standing. The fog obscures the patient’s view of the ward and the farther they slip into it, the farther away they drift from reality.
Mark Twain best described courage when he said that, “Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear” (Twain). Both in The One Who Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey and Watership Down by Richard Adams, the authors deal with the topic of courage and each share a similar view on it as this quote. Indeed, both authors suggest that courage is not accumulated simply by acts of heroism, but rather by overcoming fears and speaking one’s mind as well. These books are very similar in the way that bravery is displayed through the characters in an uncommon way. Firstly, an example of bravery
Hazel Grace, is a teenage girl who unfortunately suffers several of the cruelties of life, yet she is shining symbol of hope. Even though since she got diagnosed she quit school, her friends don’t exactly treat her like the girl she used to be she is as smart as can be, and kind at the same time. She has stayed alive lo...
In The Glass Menagerie, by Tennessee Williams, the glass menagerie is a clear and powerful metaphor for each of the four characters, Tom, Laura, Amanda, and the Gentleman Caller. It represents their lives, personality, emotions, and other important characteristics.
The story in 1 Kings 19:1-21 is the conclusion of Elijah’s ministry. Because of this, the author introduced the characters in previous chapters. In order to gain an understanding of the characters in the context of the narrative, prior chapters must be consulted. The main characters of the story are Elijah and Yahweh, surrounded by other lesser characters in this specific narrative.
While strengthening his argument of changing segregation laws, King utilizes metaphors that appeal to the audience’s emotional views. To begin with, King states “the disease of segregation,” (207) which immediately places segregation in a negative perspective. A disease is something that harms someone, and segregation does harm people in many ways. For example, segregation creates the barrier between blacks and whites and creates injustice in the daily lives of African Americans, which leads to police brutality, lynching, etc. Nevertheless, just as most diseases can be cured, King implies that segregation can also be cured. However, just like there is a battle to find a cure, there is also a battle to change segregation laws before it spreads any further to newer generations. Another metaphor King writes is the “air tight cage of poverty” (207) while referring to the life African Americans live in. Through this metaphor, King argues how segregation ultimately places black people into a cage of poverty. Because segregation denies blacks of more successful opportunities, there is an airtight cage that African Americans cannot leave. The cage is
The author, Ken Kessey, in his novel, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, depicts how cruel and dehumanizing oppression can be. Kessey’s purpose is to reveal that there are better ways to live than to let others control every aspect of a person’s life. He adopts a reflective tone and by using the techniques of imagery and symbolism, he encourages readers, especially those who may see or face oppression on a regular basis, to realize how atrocious it can be and even take action against it.
In the short story, “Hills like White Elephants”, by Ernest Hemingway, is based on determination to abort a child. Hemingway introduced the readers to Jig a naïve girl, who lacks self-confidence and an American man who is self-indulgence. Jig and her partner made an adult decision to conceive a child, but are not capable of keeping the unborn infant. Jig is in a position of contemplation, where she has to decide her own seed over infatuated love because she does not want her decision to affect their relationship. The man she has unconditionally love for does not condone to her pregnancy. The American man specifies the abortion as a “simple operation”. He tries to persuade Jig into the operation, but does not realize life will not remain the same after the surgery is complete. Hemingway helps readers visualize the situation of abortion by comparing Jig pregnancy to the scenery and fictitious objects.
There will always be coflict in this world, the peace we ever acheive is only euphemeral. Humans are social organisms. They are able to communicate and process ideas to form the greater thought. Like, what is harmony? The key idea to realize is that it is attainable. However, on the flip side of such facade, there is discord and anarchy in the natural instincts of those individuals who only strive to survive. In the novel, "The Tortilla Curtain" by T.C Boyle, Cándido Rincon, the Mexican lead, is observed as unrighteously restricted by his drean if an easy life in America. However, his plan goes severely off-track. Boyle uses spiteful tones, serious irony, and delinquent symbolism to delineate Cándido as isolated by his promising but incompetent personality to render the American Dream as unattainable to Mexicans.
...that Christ Jesus had redeemed him” (112), and also, as he tells his landlady, Mrs. Flood, “if there’s no bottom in your eyes, they hold more” (222). Mrs. Flood’s residence is where Hazel spends his final days. In an act of possible repentance, Hazel invests in his passionate belief in suffering as he binds himself, puts stones and glass in his shoes, and sleeps with barbed wire around his chest. Wanting to make some quick money, Mrs. Flood plans on asking Hazel to marry her, but ends up developing strong feelings towards him. After informing Hazel of her plans for them to get married, Hazel wanders off for three days until the cops find him on the side of the road barely conscious. Hazel dies while being driven back to Mrs. Flood’s place, where his body is taken back to. It is then that Mrs. Flood decides that Hazel can stay as long as he wants, and for free.
Author James Joyce has written many short stories which were composed to explain Dublin’s way of life. The book is known to his readers as Dubliners. His short stories have been written to help readers understand the many different feelings that were established in Dublin during a time of crisis. During this time in Dublin many changes were occurring and the city was rebuilding from the tragic potato famine and certainly rebuilding as a country. In three certain stories, “The Sisters”, “An Encounter”, and “The Dead,” the literary symbols of escape and journey appear within individuals which are always trying to run from the problems of society. These actions taken help understand why the characters have feelings of escape and run from the society of Dublin in this era. Certainly, in all three stories the major theme expressed can be determined when individuals try to escape society and the reality of Dublin.
This book actually impacted my view on life a bit. Life is a fragile gift and this book made me wonder if I am using my time in all the wrong ways. We should all work to be using our days as best we can and try to be happy regardless of our sadness. As we all know that’s not as simple as it sounds, which makes the strength of Hazel and Augustus extremely inspiring and even eye-opening. When I compare myself to these two characters I hope I can be more like them.
Hate, a passionate dislike for something or someone, has taken part of every war in the world, whether it is a political or civil one. Macklemore, the rapper of the song “Same Love”, uses powerful lyrics and imagery in many of his songs. It is in “Same Love” that he raps about a social issue that the world has been dealing with since, some could argue, the beginning of time. In the song “Same Love” he uses his rap to speak to everyone who can make a change in this world. “Same Love” by Macklemore & Ryan Lewis bring awareness to the unjust issue of homophobia by giving people the information they need to obtain a voice and stand up for humans who have had their rights stolen.