Hazel

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 notion that pain can’t be avoided. As Augustus puts it in the letter to Van Houten that Hazel reads at the end of the novel, we…

while Hazel acknowledges that death is inescapable. Both the film and the novel exhibit the color, blue. Blue can be defined as any of “faith, spirituality, contentment, and, depression” (Fusco,” The Psychology of Color in Film”). On the film and novel, blue is displayed as sadness since both the protagonists face the harsh truth of reality. On (500) Days of Summer Tom shows depression when Summer break-ups with him, while In The Fault in Our Stars the whole novel displays it because Hazel has…

ex-girlfriend, Caroline Mathers, to Hazel. He tells her that she died of brain cancer and had a tumor that changed her personality and turned her into a mean, nasty person. In life when people die of a horrible disease or even just by accident, we tend to forget all of their flaws and bad traits and just talk about the amazing person they were and all the things they did for others. Augustus is realistic about his relationship with Caroline, and he tells Hazel how she truly was instead of…

Gaea. While making his escape, Percy runs into an old woman named June, who gives him a choice: do her a favor or live safely under the sea while everybody and everything is destroyed. He meets two friends Frank and Hazel. Hazel and Frank are guarding Camp Jupiter, but let Percy in, as Hazel believes it could be a test from the gods. As the favor, Percy carries June across the Little Tiber. In the process, he loses his invincibility from the River Styx. When he reaches his…

Kurt Vonnegut, wrote “Harrison Bergeron” wrote a story in 1961, but about the story place in 2081 predicting about how future could turn out to be during in that time, and how he felt worried about what was going with the conflict with America and Russia going against each other. This story is based on the events of the cold war and the civil rights movement to have a great idea to write Harrison Bergeron and its future theme. The Author is explaining about equality and how people don’t work…

every individual was equal. Vonnegut uses indirect characterization to create sympathy for George and Hazel by…

the main character, Hazel. When Hazel watches the movie "Gorilla, My Love", she realizes that the movie is not about gorillas which frustrate her. That moment in the story it represents her anger when a situation does not live up to its word or when someone does not accomplish what they say. "If you say Gorilla, My Love, you suppose to mean it." Bambara clearly states Hazel, a young girl, mentality by illustrating her thoughts about betrayal, poverty, and family. Would Hazel reactions would be…

unfolded in front of them, probably were fuzzy in their thought—if they even managed to remember it. Throughout Hazel and George’s ordeal, of being controlled by the handicap government, they show us how the handicap government dehumanizes the people and the idea of being equal. When Hazel and George appear in the story, they seem like an average couple watching television. “George and Hazel were watching television.…

has to feel pain, but at the same time also realizes the importance of pain. Without pain and suffering we wouldn’t know what joy is. She believes that, it’s not how we die that matters but rather how we live; and that’s exactly what Hazel and Gus feel. Although Hazel and Gus know death is a possible outcome, since they have cancer in their bodies, they still get anxious, just like we do. “And yet still I worried. I liked being a person. I wanted to keep at it. Worry is yet another side effect…

to be like everyone else. While Hazel, on the other hand, has a perfectly average intelligence which means that she cannot think about anything except in short quick bursts. Hazel and George’s handicaps interfere with their emotions and logical thinking, which causes them to be completely oblivious when “HG men took [their] fourteen-year-old son, Harrison, ...but [they] could [not] think hard about it” (Vonnegut 1). The dystopian societal pressures have caused Hazel and George to be less…