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    The most inspiring book I have ever read is The Fault in Our Stars by John Green. Hazel Grace Lancaster is a sixteen year old girl who has stage 4 thyroid cancer. She meets Augustus Walters at a cancer support group, and they both fall in love. Hazel knows that she does not have a long time to live, but she does not let cancer interfere with her life. Hazel and Gus live their lives to the fullest, and they go on many adventures with each other. Hazel and Gus's adventures make them question…

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    The Fault in Our Bodies Cancer sucks. It either takes people away or leaves only a walking skeleton in its wake. There was a time when we ignored serious sicknesses like cancer, but with modern advancements and deeper understanding, those times are slowly coming to a halt - if only cancer could too. Cancer is acknowledged on a larger scale because it’s more likely that everyone has been affected by cancer. Pop culture is reflecting this since individuals are now creating stories about cancer or…

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    The Fault in Our Stars is a hotly debated book due to its mature themes and morbid ending. This book portrays death, explicit language and sexuality through its characters. As a result of these themes and the book’s ending, it has been banned by several school districts. Books can help introduce difficult concepts and promote intellectual and emotional growth. However, they need to be appropriate to the level of maturity of the reader. Children’s literature should be able to teach a lesson that…

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    was diagnosed with Stage Four Thyroid Cancer. Waiting for time to clock her out was all she ever looked forward to. Until a mysterious boy came into her life through support group meetings Hazel was waiting to implode. In John Green novel The Fault In Our Stars, Hazel Lancaster rebels against her society’s unfair limitation towards cancer patients by acting unusual for someone who has recurring terminal cancer, pursuing a dream that can cause a recursion of life-threatening events, and by…

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    to be felt,” he said, which was a line from An Imperial Affliction. Augustus says these words while playing video games in the basement with Isaac, who is grieving after being dumped by his girlfriend Monica. On a fundamental level, The Fault in Our Stars is a novel about coping with harsh realities, and particularly with suffering. We often watch the characters deal with intense pain, physical and emotional, and one of the more prominent ideas that comes up again and again is the…

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    The Fault In Our Stars Essay

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    I chose to do my novel project on The Fault In Our Stars. The major characters in this book are Hazel and Augustus. Hazel is a sixteen- year-old cancer patient who loves to read and is very shy but has a great sense of humor. Due to complications with her lungs she is forced to carry around an oxygen tank. Augustus is a seventeen-year-old cancer survivor who also likes to read but is very outgoing. He is about 6’4 and is described as being strikingly good looking. Augustus has a prosthetic leg…

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    Even though she thinks Augustus is beautiful and, hot and charming, his driving isnt exactly any of those. Speeder Augustus tells Hazel that getting his driver's license next fall.Hazel tells Augustus all about her disease and how everyone thought that she was going to die until she took a pill, which made her tumors smaller.Once entering Augustus's home, she notices a lot of inspiring phrases all over the wall—they're Encouragements there explains. Augustus wants to watch a movie with Hazel in…

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    The Fault in Our Stars has lots of life lessons and hidden meanings in it, but some of the most prominent and important of them are, being different, life and death, and family, in the course of this essay we will go over each one of these themes. Being different is a huge theme of the Fault in Our Stars, Hazel having a cannula and oxygen tank with her at all times really makes her stand out and is often asked about it by kids while adults avoid eye contact and walk swiftly away. Augustus has a…

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    This semester we read the book 1984 and a Bildungsroman book of our choice, mine being Catalyst. They both had a few common themes throughout, as well as another book I read (The Fault In Our Stars). Three themes these three books have in common is death, love, and friendship. The first theme of death is portrayed differently within each book.. For instance, in 1984, the theme of death is “mentally”, whereas in The Fault In Our Stars and Catalyst the death is real. 1984 is a different type of…

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    In "The Fault in Our Stars, both perceived emotional support and belongingness support are to some extend discussed. For instance, when Hazel arrives at home, she, unfortunately, gets into a fight with her mom. The only thing Hazel wants is that her parents could have…

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