In this book, there is a teenage girl named Hazel Grace Lancaster who has suffered from a type of lung thyroid cancer since age 13. Hazel’s life was filled with pain and sorrow, until she met Augustus Waters;…
The Fault In Our Stars and the Mayo Clinic web page differ in varied ways, and their point of view is just one of them. The Fault In Our Stars is being told from a first person perspective. The story is being told through the eyes of the main character, Hazel. Throughout the book Hazel feels as if cancer is pulling her back in many places. Also, it needs to be in first person because there are several points in the novel where it’s essential to know what her thoughts on the subjects are.…
Love can take a person on an unforgettable and otherwise unattainable journey. Jay Gatsby, the love-stricken protagonist in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, is pulled into this journey which brings back his past. Nick Carraway, Gatsby’s new neighbor and friend, narrates the situation he sees involving his married cousin, Daisy, who is caught between Gatsby and her husband, Tom Buchanan. Tom reveals to Nick the affair he is having with another married woman, Myrtle Wilson and relationships grow intense. With Nick’s assistance, Gatsby and Daisy reunite, followed by a rollercoaster of events, including murder and suicide.…
Everybody has a challenge in life; it just depends on the individual person. During this topic; “the challenge of growing up,” we read many short stories including; “The Kiss”, “The first Kiss” and “Metaphor”. I will be focusing on the “Metaphor” by Budge Wilson. In the story “The Metaphor” by Budge Wilson, Charlotte experiences the love and care from her teacher; Ms. Hancock.…
The Best Memoir of 2017 Falling in love is one of the greatest joys. Falling out of love is one of the hardest pains. The story is so empowering and is an amazing, awful roller coaster of emotions, that surprises you at each and every turn. With using a duel chapter tactic; jumping from past to present, giving a new and exciting way for the reader to learn new information.…
Love remains a frequent topic in literature because of the countless opportunities to explore emotions and to delve into the human psyche to ponder what truly causes someone to love another person. Furthermore, love is multifaceted, and Hawthorne focuses on a different aspect of love within a relationship in each of his two stories. Although “The Birth-Mark” and “The Minister’s Black Veil” both contain elements of Puritan society, delineate the relationship between a man and his partner, and consider how far love can drive a person, each story examines a different kind of love that a man and a woman have for each other. Georgiana unconditionally loves Aylmer in the same way that Mr. Hooper unconditionally loves Elizabeth, but both of their respective partners, Aylmer and Elizabeth, conditionally love them and fixate upon a single, minute detail, the birthmark and the veil, which they perceive…
There is not one thing that goes wrong like a cheating husband or smart daughter. Daisy thinks that if her daughter is a fool then she will be content and never have to deal with the heartbreak and loneliness that she herself deals with. But that is not true, there is not one characteristic that make people happy. There are many other variables that come into play and Daisy’s hope for her daughter to be a fool will not give her daughter the happiness that she wants her to have. Daisy’s expectations for her daughter and husband prevented her from seeing that there was so little that she could have done to fix her…
Happily Ever Never In life, there are two different kinds of love stories, ones with blissful endings, and some with wretched endings. Not all stories can end with happy endings. Throughout history people have been searching for the love of loves. In “The Lady with the Dog” there is a glimpse of that love, and in “Chrysanthemums”, we see that love torn apart.…
Marie Clements’ Burning Vision explores the idea of fear and its power to uphold the normality of grief and its surprising influence to bring together those who feel it. The Widow’s fear of forgetting her husband leads her to a naive young woman in need of guidance, the Radium Painter’s fear of the unknown leads her to romantic love, and the Fat Man’s fear of loneliness grants him an adopted family. In contrast, the Labine Brothers’ fear of competition is never cured. From this, the reader can conclude that the purpose of fear is to unite those under its influence. Therefore, the uniting powers of fear drives the psychological growth of each character, inviting the creation of personal connections and unveiling the idea that the antidote to fear is love.…
Love is often seen as the cause to many positive things, but when it is misunderstood, it can become a destructive force. In Toni Morrison’s novel, Song of Solomon, the love between characters is the powerful source of many of the deaths in the story. The book follows the maturation of a boy nicknamed Milkman Dead who is born from a loveless marriage into “a really strange bunch” (76). He is surrounded by many people driven by this powerful feeling: a friend who kills in the name of love, Hagar -- his cousin’s -- drive to murder him if he doesn’t love her, and the love his aunts feel for Hagar that prevents them from helping her. The characters’ misunderstanding of love causes them to blur the line of demarcation between love and destruction.…
The initiation story is a recurring theme within the Bluest Eyes. Not only the initiations of the children characters, such as Pecola and Frieda, are explored, but also the past initiations of complex adult characters, such as Cholly and Pauline Breedlove. With these stories, Toni Morrison explores how childhood experiences and epiphanies could make a heavy impact on a person’s life. This theme first became apparent in the prelude of the novel, when Claudia described the un-sprouting marigold seeds of that year.…
1. At school, Miss Caroline is upset that Scout has learned to read, and asks her not to have her father teach her anymore. Scout encounters an issue that only feeds to her disinterest of school. In this event, Scout’s confusion on what she has done wrong displays her innocence as a child. It was not her intention to be ahead in reading, instead it was something that she found came to her naturally.…
Penny, Wendy, Darren 11A Literature Compare and Contrast Hazel and Augustus Hazel and Augustus are two main characters from the book “the fault in our star”. Their lives are restricted by cancer, but cancer also brings them together. After reading the book, we found that Augustus and Hazel are similar in their perceptions and attitudes, and partly difference in their characteristics. Hazel and Augustus are two distinctive individuals, which can be attributed to their marked difference. Augustus is extroverted and Hazel is his(the) opposite: she is introverted.…
As humans, we’re almost all hardwired to search for love. Love is something that is said to be one of the most sought-after things in life. Love comes in the form of lovers, family, friends, and even self-love. To some, love is the saving grace by which people can find redemption. To others, love is a prison, something that creates weaknesses in people.…
Love is an intense feeling of deep affection, it can ease ones’ expedition in life as it fills up the emptiness a person has, along with giving a person support they may not already have. By analyzing the novel, The Road by Cormac McCarthy, the movie, Interstellar directed by Christopher Nolan, and the article, What Attracts People on the Outside to Fall in Love with Convicted Criminals by Sharon Murphy it is evident that love can ease one along their journey with motivation, companionship and selflessness. These three, the mains characters are motivated by love to get through hardships and obstacles they face. They have companionship between the one they love in their works, they have a special bond which cannot break. They also have selflessness…