Renee Munnal pd. 5/6 The Fault In our Stars by Renee Munnal https://padlet.com/600131/fc810uruvyh2 school assignment en-us 2018-03-12 15:14:04 UTC 2025-09-30 17:10:10 UTC hello@padlet.com The Fault In Our Stars 600131 https://padlet.com/600131/fc810uruvyh2/wish/240924482 I choose this book because ]]> 2018-03-12 15:21:09 UTC https://padlet.com/600131/fc810uruvyh2/wish/240924482 Emotional Involvement 600131 https://padlet.com/600131/fc810uruvyh2/wish/240927749 What hooked me was how in the beginning Hazel Grace Lancaster (one of the main characters) had said, “Late in the winter of my seventeenth year, my mother decided I was depressed, presumably because I rarely left the house, spent quite a lot of time in bed, read the same book over and over, ate infrequently, and devoted quite a bit of my abundant free time to thinking about death. Whenever you read a cancer booklet or website or whatever, they always list depression among the side effects of cancer. But, in fact, depression is not a side effect of cancer. Depression is a side effect of dying. (Cancer is also a side effect of dying. Almost everything is, really.)” that got me thinking about what cancer really is, and how it affected a cancer patients life, so I continued reading the book (and watching the movie when I saw it first).

]]> 2018-03-12 15:25:54 UTC https://padlet.com/600131/fc810uruvyh2/wish/240927749 Characters 600131 https://padlet.com/600131/fc810uruvyh2/wish/240930188 I relate to Hazel Grace Lancaster because I know how it feels to be A. Misunderstood B. Treated like crap C. Depressed and D. Lonely. I know how much it hurts to lose someone you love dearly. I don't know what it is like to have cancer, but I do understand how it feels to lose practically everything.]]> 2018-03-12 15:29:40 UTC https://padlet.com/600131/fc810uruvyh2/wish/240930188 Style 600131 https://padlet.com/600131/fc810uruvyh2/wish/240934431 John Green's use of imagery made me feel like I was there when Hazel's lungs started filling up with water and when Hazel was at Amsterdam with Agustus Waters.]]> 2018-03-12 15:35:49 UTC https://padlet.com/600131/fc810uruvyh2/wish/240934431 Conflict 600131 https://padlet.com/600131/fc810uruvyh2/wish/240938458 When Gus died from his Osteosarcoma cancer after a long hard battle. Gus was a liked young man and you could just fall in love with him for his character and personality. He was just that type of character that is in a lot of novels and you could fall in love with him a couple paragraphs after you meet him. He is quite misunderstood for his metaphor, an unlit cigarette in his mouth which he says, “‘They don't kill you unless you light them,’. . . And I’ve never lit one. It's a metaphor see, You put the thing that does the killing right between your teeth, but you don't give it the power to kill you.” (John Green)]]> 2018-03-12 15:40:45 UTC https://padlet.com/600131/fc810uruvyh2/wish/240938458 Plot 600131 https://padlet.com/600131/fc810uruvyh2/wish/240940822 I am satisfied with the resolution because Hazel was able to accept Gus’s death after she found a letter he wrote to Peter Van Houten about how much he loved her and how he wanted her to be happy. I loved how Hazel and Gus had fallen in love, then Gus dies when you think Hazel would die before he dies. I love how the author puts a scene where Hazel goes to the hospital because water fills her lungs and makes the reader (or watcher) think she will die, but doesn't. Then puts in a scene where Gus goes to the hospital and almost dies, then three months later he does.]]> 2018-03-12 15:43:29 UTC https://padlet.com/600131/fc810uruvyh2/wish/240940822 New Perspective 600131 https://padlet.com/600131/fc810uruvyh2/wish/240942294 My new perspective is that cancer is a terrible illness, yes, but cancer patients are people too and they want to be treated as a person without cancer. Cancer patients want to find love and happiness in their lives before they die. They want to be normal and live a normal life or at least try to live a normal life. It has me see now how easy it is for cancer to kill someone so young and younger than when Hazel almost died the first time when she was 13. ]]> 2018-03-12 15:45:27 UTC https://padlet.com/600131/fc810uruvyh2/wish/240942294 Prior Knowledge of Battling Cancer 600131 https://padlet.com/600131/fc810uruvyh2/wish/241430173 Before reading this novel, I knew that battling cancer was hard on many different measures. Battling cancer is the hardest thing to do, especially for kids under teenage years]]> 2018-03-13 15:14:04 UTC https://padlet.com/600131/fc810uruvyh2/wish/241430173 New Knowledge of Battling Cancer Gained from the Novel 600131 https://padlet.com/600131/fc810uruvyh2/wish/241433113 While reading The Fault In Our Stars, I learned that when people think they are getting better, they could actually be getting worse.]]> 2018-03-13 15:18:17 UTC https://padlet.com/600131/fc810uruvyh2/wish/241433113 Research Question #1: How many teens have cancer? 600131 https://padlet.com/600131/fc810uruvyh2/wish/241434605 This year, an estimated 10,270 children younger than 15 and about 5,000 adolescents aged 15 to 19 will be diagnosed with cancer in the United States.
https://www.cancer.net/cancer-types/childhood-cancer/statistics 
 
]]> 2018-03-13 15:20:28 UTC https://padlet.com/600131/fc810uruvyh2/wish/241434605 Research Question #2: Which type of cancer do most teens have? 600131 https://padlet.com/600131/fc810uruvyh2/wish/241434693  Leukemia, lymphoma, testicular cancer, and thyroid cancer are the most common cancers among 15-24-year-olds.
https://www.cancer.gov/types/aya]]> 2018-03-13 15:20:35 UTC https://padlet.com/600131/fc810uruvyh2/wish/241434693 Research Question #3: How likely is it for a teen to die from cancer? 600131 https://padlet.com/600131/fc810uruvyh2/wish/241434763 It is estimated that 1,190 deaths from cancer will occur this year in children in this age group and 600 deaths from cancer in teens aged 15 to 19.
https://www.cancer.net/cancer-types/childhood-cancer/statistics]]> 2018-03-13 15:20:41 UTC https://padlet.com/600131/fc810uruvyh2/wish/241434763 Facts about Teens with Cancer 600131 https://padlet.com/600131/fc810uruvyh2/wish/241442756 Childhood cancer is the number one disease killer of children in the U.S.  It’s the second leading cause of death (following accidents) in children ages 5-14. Every two minutes a child is diagnosed with cancer. That’s 300,000 kids around the world every year. The average age of a child diagnosed with cancer is 6. But you don’t have to be a child to be diagnosed with childhood cancer. Childhood cancer is diagnosed in all ages, from newborn infants to children and young adults.
https://www.stbaldricks.org/blog/post/childhood-cancer-facts-10-things-you-should-know]]> 2018-03-13 15:32:13 UTC https://padlet.com/600131/fc810uruvyh2/wish/241442756 Teen Cancer Statistics 600131 https://padlet.com/600131/fc810uruvyh2/wish/241445275 https://www.cancer.org/cancer/cancer-in-adolescents/key-statistics.html]]> 2018-03-13 15:35:47 UTC https://padlet.com/600131/fc810uruvyh2/wish/241445275 Expert Opinion of Teen Cancer 600131 https://padlet.com/600131/fc810uruvyh2/wish/241446124 "There were two things that really stick in my mind: the first was as a medical student in the 1980s. I walked into a pediatric ward and there was a dark corner where a family was gathered around a child in a bed. We were told that we weren’t allowed to go in because the child was dying of a brain tumor. And that just really angered me. How can the only option be to let a child die in peace?"
http://scienceblog.cancerresearchuk.org/2015/11/26/expert-opinion-professor-richard-gilbertson-talks-childrens-cancers/]]> 2018-03-13 15:36:57 UTC https://padlet.com/600131/fc810uruvyh2/wish/241446124 Anecdote of Teen Cancer 600131 https://padlet.com/600131/fc810uruvyh2/wish/241447100 2018-03-13 15:38:10 UTC https://padlet.com/600131/fc810uruvyh2/wish/241447100 Overall Evaluation of Teen Cancer in My Novel 600131 https://padlet.com/600131/fc810uruvyh2/wish/241450781 John Green represented the issue of Teen cancer by having Hazel's lungs fill up with water from her thyroid cancer.]]> 2018-03-13 15:42:34 UTC https://padlet.com/600131/fc810uruvyh2/wish/241450781 Overall Evaluation of The Fault In Our Stars 600131 https://padlet.com/600131/fc810uruvyh2/wish/241452549 I recommend this book because it shows the trouble of cancer and adds a little love to it. I really recommend this book to people who love, love novels. Warning, this novel contains strong language and sexual themes and actions.]]> 2018-03-13 15:45:02 UTC https://padlet.com/600131/fc810uruvyh2/wish/241452549