MAIN CHARACTERS INFORMATION Hazel Grace Lancaster A 16 year old girl who has thyroid cancer which spreads to her lungs later on‚ has a high chance of dying early. At first‚ she is depressed and is hopeless about her life. She tries to avoid meeting people and making new friends in the Support Group. She is conscious and always think that she’s a grenade‚ since she might lose her life anytime. She hopes to bring less harm to the world and everyone around her because of her existence. So she is feared
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vary. For example‚ Hazel‚ a teenager suffering from cancer‚ has a pessimistic view about her war. Hazel has already accepted defeat because she knows that she will always have cancer. She will never be able to win because“(cancer) is a civil war… with a predetermined winner (death)” (Green 216). As every day passes by‚ Hazel is one more day closer to death. She never knows when she will die. It could happen any day now. Hazel waits anxiously for that fateful day. Therefore‚ Hazel views her life as
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Bambara who describes the events that take place in the life of a skinny girl named Hazel Elizabeth Deborah Parker‚ a little African-American girl with a squeaky voice that has passion to run. However the tale begins describing the members of her family‚ the author writes more about Hazel and her brother Raymond. Raymond is not quite right; apparently he suffers a metal disease. He’s bigger and older than Hazel‚ but a lot of people call him Hazel’s little brother because he needs to be looking
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George and Hazel were sitting in front of the TV and talking about the graceful ballerinas when suddenly somebody knocked on the door. -“George‚ can you open the door? I’m watching the pretty dance of ballet.”- said Hazel staring at the TV. George stood up from his comfortable place and headed to the door. When he opened it‚ to his surprise Harrison was staying in front of him. -“Hazel you are not going to believe who is here.”- said George. -“Who is it?”- asked Hazel. She turned facing
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Then there are the Augustus Waters of the world‚ who so entirely change your life‚ their impact could never be erased. Hazel Grace is just a normal teenager who is bored with life and likes to quote philosophers (no big deal) when she meets Augustus‚ a grade A hottie. It would be your typical teenage-girl-meets-boy story if it weren’t for the particulars of how they meet: Hazel and Augustus first lay eyes on each other at a support group for kids with cancer. This is a love story in the bleakest
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And Equality for All The short story "Harrison Bergeron" by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. revolves around a society where everyone is equal. The story is set in the United States in the year 2081 and focuses around the story of George‚ Hazel‚ and their son‚ Harrison. In this society‚ there are amendments to the constitution that forces equality on society. These amendments require that beautiful people wear masks‚ intelligent people wear noise emitting headphones to distract their thoughts‚ and the strong
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The Fault in Our Stars: A Tragic Love Story Her name is Hazel Grace Lancaster; she was first diagnosed with cancer in her thyroid when she was 13 years old and then it slowly progressed to her lungs. She couldn’t stand up for very long and stairs were basically her worst enemy‚ but she was a fighter. When she was 16 years old‚ her parents forced her to go to a support group. Hazel hated the idea of going but she went anyway‚ and that was where she first met Augustus Waters. Augustus was a cancer
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According to Charles Duhigg’s theory in “The Power of Habit.” A habit loop has three parts‚ the cue to be a trigger; the routine‚ it can be physical or emotional‚ and the reward. At first‚ Hazel’s habit loop was simple‚ the cue was her parents did not allow her to go to school so she stay at home‚ the routine was she stayed at home and became isolated‚ and the reward was she felt safe and relieved. Because of this habit loop‚ she became isolate and hated to do the social activities. So when Hazel’s
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full of depth and dynamic. Though it may seem like a typical teenage romance film‚ The Fault in Our Stars is distinct in the way that it confronts difficult topics like death and oblivion in a fearless and straightforward manner. The story follows Hazel (Shailene Woodley)‚ who was diagnosed with cancer at the age of thirteen. A clinical trial gave her a few good years‚ but she has never been really
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In the comparison of two novels‚ Wise Blood by Flannery O’ Connor and Maus I & II by Art Spiegelman‚ it is first important to understand the objective differences between the two. The former is a fictional telling of Hazel Motes’ world – where he is at a constant struggle to understand his own faith along with the battle against an industrialized version of religion. The latter‚ on the other hand‚ is a true account of one man’s battle through the Holocaust in the form of a direct conversation with
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