https://padlet.com/4801811949/td5ac4sscdj7 4th Quarter IRB en-us 2018-05-14 01:40:40 UTC 2026-01-26 00:23:59 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/File.png 4801811949 https://padlet.com/4801811949/td5ac4sscdj7/wish/260305031 Firstly, I urgently feel the need to point out that though Shailene Woodley (pictured below) portrays Hazel Grace Lancaster, the main protagonist and narrator of the novel, she is not ugly. That sounds kind of terrible, but in the novel Hazel berates herself with self deprecation, making sure to include that she is 'ugly.' No one in this world is ugly, and if even a glimmer of Hazel's personality were to shine through outer appearance I'm sure she'd be stunning. However, citing her description from the novel, I'd say I have to say whoever matches up the best would never share that trait. However, very well depicted in the movie, Hazel has a bob haircut with green eyes and, as she describes herself, "chipmunk cheeks." She tends to dress like the main character of her favorite book, An Imperial Affliction, who also has cancer, with converse and mostly plain clothes. Outside from the directly described, I'd imagine Hazel to be rather skinnier, considering she does have terminal cancer, and paler skin. ]]> 2018-05-14 01:47:02 UTC https://padlet.com/4801811949/td5ac4sscdj7/wish/260305031 4801811949 https://padlet.com/4801811949/td5ac4sscdj7/wish/260307064 John Green, the author of The Fault in our Stars, has written 7 books, many of which have debuted on the New York Times Best Seller list including The Fault in our Stars, Paper Towns, Looking for Alaska, and An Abundance of Katherines. He also has an educational YouTube channel alongside his brother, Hank Green, called "Crash Course" which specializes in a variety of Science and History related videos.]]> 2018-05-14 02:00:30 UTC https://padlet.com/4801811949/td5ac4sscdj7/wish/260307064 4801811949 https://padlet.com/4801811949/td5ac4sscdj7/wish/260313459 When TFIOS had so many positive reviews as a book and had a well hyped up movie on the way, I knew I had to read it fast before I saw the movie. When I got to THE part, you could call it the climax, I know millions of other teenage girls cried just as hard as I did. And in the movie too. I wish I knew why putting myself through the trauma of re-reading the book for this project was a good idea. In chapter 13, Gus breaks Hazel's heart, as well as every person with a soul reading along, as he sat with Hazel in her Amsterdam hotel room and revealed that his once disappeared cancer had returned. The line on page 214 " He flashed his crooked smile, then said, 'I lit up like a Christmas tree, Hazel Grace. The lining of my chest, my left hip, my liver, everywhere.'", referring to the PET scan he got when he felt discomfort on his side, will probably sit close to my heart forever and haunt me a little bit.]]> 2018-05-14 02:16:43 UTC https://padlet.com/4801811949/td5ac4sscdj7/wish/260313459 4801811949 https://padlet.com/4801811949/td5ac4sscdj7/wish/260316357 Hazel and Gus live in Indianapolis. Though it is a big city, mind that the Indianapolis they know is one only of hospitals, support groups, and pretty much each other's houses. They're cancer is obviously pretty limiting, so they try to maintain their environment as a sterile one. When Gus gets his wish granted of meeting author Peter Van Houten with Hazel by the genies of the Make A Wish Foundation, the complications run high and Hazel's doctors were extremely reluctant to let her go, considering she was asking to go to an uncontrollable Amsterdam.]]> 2018-05-14 02:32:56 UTC https://padlet.com/4801811949/td5ac4sscdj7/wish/260316357 4801811949 https://padlet.com/4801811949/td5ac4sscdj7/wish/260317683 You get to know Hazel's sarcastic and slightly depressed pessimistic sense of humor and outlook on life in the first couple of paragraphs. Specifically, when she notes that many say that depression is a side effect of cancer, she clarifies that "depression is a side effect of dying. (Cancer is also a side effect of dying. Almost everything is, really)."  (page 1). To be fair, she is dying. Blatantly, being as directly pessimistic as she is immediately when the novel begins isn't too surprising. In the first chapter, Hazel's mom "encourages" her to attend a support group with other cancer patients, but pretty much, lovingly, makes her. The mood of the described routine she faces daily- multiple prescribed pills taken multiple times daily, doctors trips, trips to the hospital, and re-reading the same book constantly- creates a familiar and almost confining mood.]]> 2018-05-14 02:42:04 UTC https://padlet.com/4801811949/td5ac4sscdj7/wish/260317683 4801811949 https://padlet.com/4801811949/td5ac4sscdj7/wish/260320383

Metaphor- chapter 1

1. "'And how are you feeling?' asked Patrick. 'Oh, I'm grand.' Augustus Waters smiled with a corner of his mouth.                    'I'm on a roller coaster that only goes up, my friend.'"

Simile- chapter 6

1. “I’m like. Like. I’m like a grenade, Mom. I’m a grenade and at some point I’m going to blow up and I would like to minimize the casualties, okay…?”

Hyperbole- chapter 2

1. "Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book."

]]> 2018-05-14 02:58:39 UTC https://padlet.com/4801811949/td5ac4sscdj7/wish/260320383 4801811949 https://padlet.com/4801811949/td5ac4sscdj7/wish/260324914 Hazel identifies when her favorite book, An Imperial Affliction, ends mid-sentence, "this mid-sentence thing was supposed to reflect how life really ends or whatever," but the only problem Hazel faces is that "there are characters other than Anna (the narrator) in the story," and that "it's unfair that I'll never find out what happened to them." Much like how Hazel struggles with the sudden and unexpected timing of death, there is a tweak I would give to this book, because the book totally needs another heart-wrenching facet. Between Chapter 20, which holds Gus' 'prefuneral' and asks Isaac and Hazel to read their eulogies to him, and Chapter 21, which opens with a blunt statement saying that Gus died, there is no details of any communication or contact between Gus and Hazel. In Chapter 21 Hazel states that "the pleasure of remembering had been taken away from me, because there was no longer anyone to remember with. It felt like losing your co-rememberer meant losing the memory itself." She then calls his phone just to sit on the dead voicemail line and reminisce on how they used to talk hours on the phone and wished to revisit the "secret third post-terrestrial third space" that they reached when they spoke on the phone. One of the beauties of TFIOS and John Green's magnificent writing is the real and authentic story as well as, well, just not being a picture perfect story where they both survive and live happily ever after. But to give Hazel some, not all, closure that she deserved (she would argue with me on the word choice of 'deserve'), I would hope that right before Gus went unconscious which would onset his death, that he would maybe feel discomfort, know that his time was up, and leave a voicemail for Hazel. In my ending I wouldn't want her to answer it when he called; she wouldn't be able to handle knowing this was the last time she'd hear his voice, addressing her, or bear the thought of knowing the exact moment that she and Gus would both be alive. But after the news broke, I wish she could receive some sort of goodbye. Perhaps the closest we will get to this is the note Peter Van Houten gives Hazel at Gus's funeral. I'm sure that that would in some way take away from the cruel reality John Green put so much effort into not only depicting but creating, but my heart hurts for Hazel as she never got to hear this.]]> 2018-05-14 03:43:20 UTC https://padlet.com/4801811949/td5ac4sscdj7/wish/260324914 4801811949 https://padlet.com/4801811949/td5ac4sscdj7/wish/260330246 I can't imagine being put through the grief that the strong characters in this book face. In particular, I would like to give a shoutout to Ms. Lancaster. Being a mother is being a superhero already, and entails making a world of sacrifices in hopes that maybe one day your child will be able to build on the backs of them. Hazel knows that her treatment has financially drained her family's savings. Being a girl who considers her mom her best friend, my heart truly hurts for MS. Lancaster in particular. It's a difficult task trying to fathom the words I would write to one of the strongest literary parents I've ever come across, as well as one I'd hope to resemble in the slightest bit. In fact, I'll probably cry as I do it. So, for the sake of my emotional health, I'd like to spare myself the swollen eyelids, instead of writing to Ms. Lancaster about what she's gone through in hopes of picking her up, I'm just going to touch on the admiration aspect.

Ms. Lancaster,

I don't even know where to begin.
Part of what makes life as complex and marvelous as it is is not what can be found in big headlines or heard all over the world. It is simply found in how outrageously beautiful life can be when it's right by you. You, Ms. Lancaster, are truly an example of how beautiful life can be. 
I'm not going to say being a mother is tough, because no matter how rewarding it is, I'm sure only a mother has the credibility to define just how 'tough' it really is. But from observation of a pretty stinkin' great one I have at home, but also from reading about you, I know you have to be strong as hell. I don't really know how to put it, but naturally I admire mother's just for the work they're cut out for. I'm sure if I read through the obstacles and the perseverance individual mothers faced, I would admire them much more too. But you, Ms. Lancaster, admiration is a word too light to use in regards of my respect for you. I'm going to keep this brief to prevent myself from saying the wrong words in midst of not knowing the right ones to use. You are one of my heroes. You are so strong that just reading about what you do brings me to tears. I hope to have a shred of your strength if I get the chance to be a mother or just in adulthood. Thank you for being such a strong depiction of strength that I didn't know I needed.
Sincerely,
A daughter you've touched]]> 2018-05-14 04:24:11 UTC https://padlet.com/4801811949/td5ac4sscdj7/wish/260330246 4801811949 https://padlet.com/4801811949/td5ac4sscdj7/wish/260333942 2018-05-14 04:48:04 UTC https://padlet.com/4801811949/td5ac4sscdj7/wish/260333942 4801811949 https://padlet.com/4801811949/td5ac4sscdj7/wish/260337102 In short, I believe this book demands to be read because I'm glad that I could feel these emotions, or could at least know that these are types of ways to feel. I cried like a baby reading this, and my heart felt betrayed, but there's a liberating experience that's found in feeling those ways through literature. It's an experience that as a teen reading young adult novels is one you don't want to miss out on.]]> 2018-05-14 05:18:07 UTC https://padlet.com/4801811949/td5ac4sscdj7/wish/260337102 4801811949 https://padlet.com/4801811949/td5ac4sscdj7/wish/260338027 Questions I had while reading included the following:

• When does Hazel die?
  • no answer provided

]]> 2018-05-14 05:27:28 UTC https://padlet.com/4801811949/td5ac4sscdj7/wish/260338027 4801811949 https://padlet.com/4801811949/td5ac4sscdj7/wish/260340043 The main lesson TFIOS extensively teaches is life is short. Time on this Earth is not guaranteed to be however long, so live it. With that being said, a short life can be a good life, if lived right.]]> 2018-05-14 05:48:30 UTC https://padlet.com/4801811949/td5ac4sscdj7/wish/260340043 4801811949 https://padlet.com/4801811949/td5ac4sscdj7/wish/260340187 When you've officially immersed yourself in the story you're reading, you find yourself becoming the main character at play. It's especially easy to as a teenage girl, reading about a teenage girl. And though for some it could be hard to make a connection with a girl who's dying, it didn't seem too difficult to me. 
1) We both have illnesses.
Sure, one is terminal cancer, and mine is just Crohn's Disease, but it helps visualize for the extensively described hospital trips.
2) Hazel has sarcasm that could kill. 
I'm all for some good humor with nice intelligence behind it, and John Green's own humor shines through in his characters. And once again, I'm all for it.
3) Of course, Gus waters is all caps DREAMY.
And what girl wouldn't be jealous of Hazel for a moment? Okay I realized right after I said that that they both have terrible illnesses but, look at their love story as not one that involves their illnesses. I mean come on, he orchestrated a whole Dutch themed picnic date to surprise her with a trip to Amsterdam!? Most thoughtful guy ever.]]> 2018-05-14 05:50:15 UTC https://padlet.com/4801811949/td5ac4sscdj7/wish/260340187 4801811949 https://padlet.com/4801811949/td5ac4sscdj7/wish/260341665 Hazel Grace Lancaster tells the story from her first person point of view.]]> 2018-05-14 06:05:04 UTC https://padlet.com/4801811949/td5ac4sscdj7/wish/260341665 4801811949 https://padlet.com/4801811949/td5ac4sscdj7/wish/260341761 Most YA fiction tends to have the same general underlying themes. Though John Green's works aren't much of an exception, I believe TFIOS is much like his other works, in particular Looking For Alaska.
Looking For Alaska, in short, is a story from the male protagonist point of view named Miles, and captures his fascination for his "great Perhaps" as well as a free spirited classmate named Alaska. Trying not to spoil anything, I'll say that I see a resemblance in the way the two love stories pan out- leaving only one ]]> 2018-05-14 06:06:02 UTC https://padlet.com/4801811949/td5ac4sscdj7/wish/260341761 4801811949 https://padlet.com/4801811949/td5ac4sscdj7/wish/260344392 The Antagonist isn't a particular character, rather that of a more natural force. The antagonist of The Fault in our Stars is either death or time. Though Hazel is content with the 'little infinity' she had with Gus, she wishes he had more time, as well as she had more time with him. Along with that, Hazel notes that the looming death over young kids with cancer, such as her and Gus.]]> 2018-05-14 06:25:51 UTC https://padlet.com/4801811949/td5ac4sscdj7/wish/260344392 4801811949 https://padlet.com/4801811949/td5ac4sscdj7/wish/260346925 It's really hard to choose just one favorite quote from this book. I have moments in it that make me giddy. But a quote in this book that resonated with me for a while was in Hazel's eulogy for Gus on what she calls her 'Last Good Day.'
"I am not a mathematician, but I know this: There are an infinite amount of numbers between 0 and 1. There's .1 and .12 and .112 and an infinite collection of others. Of course, there is a bigger infinite set of numbers between 0 and 2, or between 0 and a million. Some infinities are bigger than other infinities. A writer we used to like taught us that. There are days, many of them, when I resent the size of my unbounded set. I want more numbers than I'm likely to get, and God, I want more numbers for Augustus Waters than he got. But Gus, my love, I cannot tell you how thankful I am for our little infinity. I wouldn't trade it for the world. You gave me a forever within the numbered days, and I'm grateful." (Chapter 20 page 260)
This quote so perfectly captures the essence of the epic love that Hazel and Gus had as well as demonstrates how well spoken and sophisticated Hazel really is. A close runner up to this quote would be the entire letter Hazel discovers that Gus wrote to Van Houten in the last pages of the book. A quote thats stuck out to me and my eyes as tears dripped down them was this:
"You don't get to choose if you get hurt in this world, old man, but you do have some say in who hurts you. I like my choices. I hope she likes her too."
And just to make you sob even harder, the last line follows directly after:
"I do, Augustus.
I do."
I'm not crying, you are.]]> 2018-05-14 06:39:20 UTC https://padlet.com/4801811949/td5ac4sscdj7/wish/260346925 4801811949 https://padlet.com/4801811949/td5ac4sscdj7/wish/260351690 The resolution readers settle on is after Gus's funeral when Peter Van Houten approaches Hazel and apologizes for his behavior in Amsterdam, followed by Hazel reading Gus's words to Van Houten about her]]> 2018-05-14 07:02:25 UTC https://padlet.com/4801811949/td5ac4sscdj7/wish/260351690 4801811949 https://padlet.com/4801811949/td5ac4sscdj7/wish/260354446 While in Amsterdam in chapter 11, Hazel and Gus go to a high end restaurant called Oranjee, and on page 163 Hazel and Gus try Champagne:
"I took a sip. The tiny bubbles melted in my mouth and journeyed northward into my brain. Sweet. Crisp. Delicious."]]> 2018-05-14 07:15:46 UTC https://padlet.com/4801811949/td5ac4sscdj7/wish/260354446 4801811949 https://padlet.com/4801811949/td5ac4sscdj7/wish/260357485 Though it is mentioned Gus's favorite band is called The Hectic Glow, Hazel notes to self her distaste for the music. Considering her more mature background and chill vibe, I believe the following three songs would be on her phone because they reflect her homebody and chill lifestyle when she's home.
1. Not About Angels- Birdy
2. All I Want- Kodaline
3. In the Lonely Hour- Sam Smith]]> 2018-05-14 07:28:55 UTC https://padlet.com/4801811949/td5ac4sscdj7/wish/260357485 4801811949 https://padlet.com/4801811949/td5ac4sscdj7/wish/260360009 Here are a few facts about the author, John Green:
1. (I already knew this) He partly lived here in Orlando and attended Glenridge Middle School and Lake Highland Prep!!
2. Following that, his novel, Paper Towns, set in Orlando, is also based on the schools he attended here.
3. His debut novel Looking for Alaska has just been revealed to becoming a Hulu series adaption.
4. He has a cameo in the extended cut version of the movie based on the book, The Fault In Our Stars.
5. He and his brother, Hank, have an educational vlog on YouTube called "Crash Course."
6. The idea for TFIOS came from him working as a student Chaplin at a children's hospital
7. Green has Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
8. Green initially intended on becoming a priest.
9. The girl he dedicated the novel to, Esther Earl, never got to read it, as she died of Thyroid Cancer in 2010, just before the book came out.
10. He said Esther taught him that "a short life can also be a good one."]]> 2018-05-14 07:39:27 UTC https://padlet.com/4801811949/td5ac4sscdj7/wish/260360009 4801811949 https://padlet.com/4801811949/td5ac4sscdj7/wish/260363829 5 questions I would ask Hazel would be
1. How do you truly affiliate with religion? 
-She never touches on this
2. What would you say to younger children with cancer who haven't had experiences like you?
3. Do you believe you and Gus were soul mates?
4. ]]> 2018-05-14 07:54:21 UTC https://padlet.com/4801811949/td5ac4sscdj7/wish/260363829 4801811949 https://padlet.com/4801811949/td5ac4sscdj7/wish/260369055 A zinger, being a striking remark, lines up perfectly with a quote from Hazel once Gus died:
"You can love someone so much... but you can never love people as much as you can miss them."]]> 2018-05-14 08:20:10 UTC https://padlet.com/4801811949/td5ac4sscdj7/wish/260369055