Hazel

Hazel Grace Lancaster is a sixteen-year-old girl who believes that we have a choice in this world on how to tell sad stories, the sugar-coated way or the truthful way. She prefers the truth, and this is the truth. In the book The Fault in Our Stars by John Green, Hazel is diagnosed with stage 4 thyroid cancer at age thirteen. She refuses to be defined by her illness and due to that, she lives an extraordinary life. Hazel changes many was from the beginning to the end of the story including…

rioting in their community. There’s no benefit after all the screaming and burning things down. They won’t receive nothing but bad news. In Elizabeth & Hazel, David Margolick, “Finally, nestled in the bottom right-hand corner, was Elizabeth with Hazel. “CATCALLS,”... Hazel was not identified, nor would she be in the next morning’s Gazette. “ Hazel tormenting Elizabeth on the protest in 1957, that did not bring her to nowhere. The only place it brought her to was, walk of shame. Her being part of…

Recurring Racial Tension In the novel “Elizabeth and Hazel,” by David Margolick, the recurring theme throughout the entire story is the racial tension and hatred that surrounded the pre-Civil Rights Era. In a world filled with hatred against people of color, Elizabeth Eckford managed to stand up for her race against all the disgusting things people were throwing at her. The reason she was being treated this way was because she went to Central High School, an all-white school. At the time,…

“Home is where the heart is” is the old famous quote that many people have said. But in some cases this is farthest from the truth. Tate’s statement suggests that “home” is a place, or even a state of mind. In the novel Wise Blood, the character Hazel Motes is far from home. A returning war veteran, Motes comes home to find his house in Tennessee abandoned and his family gone. Confused, Motes boards a train to Taulkinham and from there his journey begins, becoming farther and farther away from…

novel, The Fault in Our Stars, Hazel Lancaster is the narrator. She is a sixteen year old girl from Indiana. She was first diagnosed with thyroid cancer that spread to her lungs when she was thirteen years old. Hazel knows that she won’t be like all other teenagers and she doesn’t feel bad about that. She does not sugarcoat her cancer throughout this novel, she knows that she takes medication to keep her tumors okay. But she doesn’t feel bad for herself at all. Hazel is her own person. She’s…

While discrimination has improved from the past, we still see it indirectly in certain contexts. In David Margolick’s book, Elizabeth and Hazel, it says “Probably every newspaper in the country has published a picture of the fifteen-year-old Negro girl walking to and from school with a crowd of white students behind her, sneering, snarling, and probably even cursing” (102). In this excerpt, it’s clear to see that how white students used to discriminate and criticize Elizabeth straight away…

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…

“That’s the thing about pain, it demands to be felt”. Although these words are from the book Hazel Grace is obsessed with (almost like I am with this book)it is still pertinent. Those words slice through me like a knife and with those words I can use to not only explain The Fault in our Stars by John Green but also a lot of my experiences throughout the past four years of my life. It may sound cliche as does most everything that I say, but I believe that without the feelings of pain, sadness…

that has bought her a few years, Hazel has been struggling to determine how to live her life and to find meaning in it. I felt myself cheering for Hazel, a dynamic character, who changed from a depressing girl who was obsessed by the impact her death will have on those around her, specifically her parents. Thus, in the beginning of the novel, she deliberately keeps her distance from potential friends so that her death could not hurt them. As the novel develops, Hazel meets a positive boy named…

“”Boy!” said Hazel, "that was a doozy, wasn't it?" It was such a doozy that George was white and trembling, and tears stood on the rims of his red eyes.” This quote from Harrison Bergeron portrays one of the many flaws of the society created by author Kurt Vonnegut, which supports the idea that a truly equal society wouldn’t be beneficial or enjoyable to all. The characters in the story that are above average are forcibly handicapped by the government to be “equal” with those who are below…