The topic sentence or thesis statement for my paper is You don't get to choose if you get hurt in this world..but you do have some say in who hurts you . In the novel The Fault In Our Stars, John Green plotted a story of making choices and going through valuable experiences before death in predicted time. John Green builds a 16 years old teenage girl, Hazel Grace Lanchester as the main character, who battled with cancer and counting her life span. Her mother sent her to Support Group for Cancer Survivors to build her self-confidence and encouraged her to mix with the society. Until one day, she met Augustus Waters who catch her eyes on their first meeting. Augustus Waters suffered from Osteosarcoma and after he lost his leg, he uses prosthetic …show more content…
It doesn’t go as well as they had planned when they met the author face to face at the author’s house. He is a drunk man, talking nonsense and criticize Hazel and Augustus by saying that, ‘like sick children.. you say you don’t want pity, but your very existence depends upon it’. Hazel felt disappointed and upset because she still can’t know the ending from the author himself. However, Peter Van Houten’s assistant, Lidewij Vligenthart, invited Hazel and Augustus to visit Anne Frank’s house in Amsterdam. ‘Some infinities are bigger than other infinities’ is a popular quote in this novel and the quote is stated out by Peter Van Houten when Hazel and Augustus visited him. Infinities is limitless but Georg Cantor proved it, it is still can be compared. From Hazel’s perspective, from 0 to 1, there is unlimited numbers such as 0.1, 0.11, 0.112 and so on. Thus, when we are keep on moving, we will get a smaller and smaller’s distance between the boundaries.
Before they want back to Indianapolis, Augustus shocked Hazel by telling her that, his cancer has returned, had spread to whole body and his condition is much worse than his previous condition. Hazel never thinks Augustus has shorter life span than her so she felt extremely
On an early morning in July of 1942, the Van Daans and Franks meet up for the first time at the annex. All of them are covered in layers of clothing to carry as much to their new home as possible. They are all introduced to each other. Living in the secret annex is Mr. and Mrs. Van Daan, Peter Van Daan, Mr. and Mrs. Frank, Margot, and Anne Frank. Mr. Van Daan is a selfish, greedy man. Mrs. Van Daan likes the finer things, thinks pretty highly of herself and adores her husband. Peter is shy, quiet, and just truly doesn’t say much. Mr. Frank is a kind, caring, leading man. Mrs. Frank is motherly, caring, and sweet. Margo does as others say and tries to keep a low-key profile. Anne is wild and unique. She doesn’t let others push her around, and she is very independent. Everyone in the annex is very different.
Wisps of burnt-out curtains drape over shattered window frames, fluttering helplessly like a bird with injured wings. Pieces of wood collapse snapping once they hit the ground. Smoke swirls around in the wind. No sound can be heard except for the occasional sobs escaping the chapped lips of people visiting what is left of their homes. The once busy city of Amsterdam is now nothing but a city of forgotten souls. In 1942, the Franks and the Van Daans moved into a warehouse located in Amsterdam to escape the perilous world outside, where the Holocaust was taking place. Jews like the Franks and the Van Daans had their rights taken away from them. The Gestapo, the police working for the Nazis, rounded up people to be sent to concentration camps, where people worked to death. Margot Frank was one of them. Many Jews had to leave the country to escape, while the two families, and later on a man named Dussel, lived on the top floor of the warehouse called the Secret Annex. Living in such a small space and having sparse food with so many people was not easy. On weekdays, not a noise was to be made otherwise the workmen below would hear them. Food and other items had to be brought in by Miep and Mr. Kraler, who risked their lives to help the members of the Secret Annex. To keep herself company, Anne Frank wrote in her diary almost every day. Later on, her diary was published, and two authors decided that they would write a play based on the published diary, named The Diary of Anne Frank. Goodrich and Hackett created memorable characters in their play. Among these people, Otto Frank stood out, who emerged as a good leader because he put himself before others, made rough decisions when problems rose, and stayed positive and optimistic even dur...
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.
What are you going to do when you know that the person you love is dying right in front of your eyes? What is there that you can do? The Fault in Our Stars is a touching story that brings out all the possibilities of those questions. The real issue here is that is everything being done so that the person you love dies happily and peacefully? There are many instances in this story where you can tell that the main characters Hazel and Augustus really truly love each other because both make choices that will eventually end up in the others happiness. Even though there are the loving instances, there are also times where you the reader are asking yourself; ‘Is this the right thing that’s happening?’ Another factor that this book holds is that it draws you in with it’s confusion. Everything makes sense, but yet in another sense, it doesn't. This book is an emotional train wreck, and when and if you do read this I recommend you have tissues somewhere near by.
Shock, anger, numbness, denial, acceptance, and fighting for one’s life, are the general phases of grief through one’s experience with cancer (cancersurvivors.org). Although discovering about one’s cancer can be excruciating, an additional agonizing reaction to a sick person is how the others are affected and their one-on-one reaction to the person. Feeling overly pitiful to one’s illness can impair the situation for the one who is ill by emotionally making the tragedy feel additionally worse. Although the extra sympathy, empathy, and compassion Hazel Grace Lancaster is treated with in The Fault In Ours Stars are intended to comfort, these exaggerated emotions have the opposite effect, further isolating and reminding her of her limited existence, but concurrently, the reality of condolences is pivotal to Hazel’s life.
Ellen got lucky, and she was able to stay with her best friend's parents fathers brother-in-law named Henrik. After a few days at Henrik’s place, one night there is a funeral, and Ellen reunites during that funeral, with her parents, which was disturbed by the Nazi soldiers. Annemarie, her best friend, and her relatives along with Ellen’s family and relatives managed to trick the Nazi from opening the coffin. This happened because what was inside of the coffin could cost their life if caught by the Germans. With the help of Annemarie's mother, Ellen and her family were to be taken to the docks to be potentially shipped away to safety. As one family geso one by one to leave it became Ellens turn to go and leave the household. Annemarie as sad as she is about letting her best friend go she gives up and allows ...
People with cancer often begin to define themselves based on their experience with their illness, this self-definition through one’s cancer is one that the characters fear in John Green’s The Fault in Our Stars. The novel shows how the characters strive to discover their identities, but despite that are still identified by their illness. The novel also makes the argument that young people with cancer are not any more virtuous or different than other kids rather, they are just normal kids living with an illness. Augustus wants to be remembered and also be more than just a boy who battled cancer, but despite his efforts is still identified by his illness.
. . “. Then, Mrs. Frank asks, “What is it?” Finally, Anne answers, “Presents!”. When everyone thinks that they are done with Hanukkah, because of the fact that they can’t do all of the celebrations, Anne comes with presents for everyone. No one else had thought about the presents because they can’t go out and buy things, but Anne had made or found special presents for everyone, to show that she cares and that they can still celebrate a special night if Hanukkah, despite it being during the times of the Holocaust. This scene also helps add to the purpose of a time skip from scene four to scene five, making it the first night of Hanukkah, and the scene is relevant because Hanukkah is celebrated by Jews, as the Franks, Van Daans, and Dussel are. Next, when we are nearing the end of the scene five, the Franks, Van Daans, and Dussel are almost done with the celebration of the first night of Hanukkah when Peter accidentally falls and knocks over a lamp. Quickly after, all in the apartment also hear the sound of footsteps below, so, they all grow worried that someone may have found them. Mr. Frank claims, “Have we lost all faith? All courage? A moment ago we thought that they’d come for
The characters of the book reside in present day Indiana. The main characters Hazel and Augustus are two teenagers who both live in Indianapolis in average homes with their families. Hazel spends a lot of time in the hospital and her house due to her cancer. She meets Augustus at a support group in her church and they start spending a lot of time together. Hazel shared her favorite book with Augustus and this book stops mid-sentence with no ending. They both love the book and contacted the author who lives in Amsterdam for answers about how the story ends. The author of this book, Peter Van Houten denies giving them any information because he does not trust that Hazel and Augustus wouldn’t just share it on the internet or record the telephone call. Peter Van Houten says he would only tell them in person. It becomes Hazel’s dream to go Amsterdam which is where Van Houten lives. Augustus uses his one “wish”, from the Genie foundation (which grants wishes to kids with cancer) for him and Hazel to go to Amsterdam. On the plane to Amsterdam, Augustus tells Hazel that he is in love with her. Amsterdam is described as being picture perfect and the opposite of their hometown. I think that the characters felt confined and limited in Indiana but were set free in Amsterdam. In Amsterdam they finally speak to Van Houten, who was an extreme disappointment to them, visit tourist sites and have dinner by the canal. The major climax occurs in Amsterdam when Augustus reveals to Hazel that his cancer has returned and is going to kill him.
Life is a purpose, waiting to be fulfilled. The paper intends to take into account the lives of the protagonists of the fault in our stars to infer the meaning and true purpose of life.
“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
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
I hear that you are trying to decide which novel you are going to teach next year in order to let your students deeply understand the central idea of the control of one’s life. (Introduction) I suggest that you should teach both Romeo and Juliet and The Fault In Our Stars if you have enough time, however if you can only pick one of them, I appreciate to use Romeo and Juliet. (Claim) Even though The Fault in Our Stars deals with the concept of illness, such as the thyroid cancer totally messed up Hazel's life, Romeo and Juliet is the superior text because their tragedy ends is result of the fate.
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.
I would like to recommend The Fault In Our Stars to persons who enjoy reading about tragical love stories. People who are interested in exploring human lives with a distant angle than they normally would engage in. Additional persons who understand the context and plot. Jodi Picoult said the novel is, “Electric, filled with staccato bursts of humor and tragedy”. After reading it I could not agree more. Today The Fault In Our Stars is one of my favorite books which I can read countless times over again. Each time it opens up a new door of thoughts. The philosophical questions wonder through my mind, but I know that I will never get concrete answers. This is the reason for why The Fault In Our Stars is a success and bestseller.