Good Evening My Wonderful Students,
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Ms. Hall-D'Accordo
“Seriously, don’t even get me started on my hot bod. You don’t want to see me naked, Dave. Seeing me naked actually took Hazel Grace’s breathe away,” he said, nodding toward the oxygen tank. “ Okay, enough,” Gus’s dad said, and then out of nowhere, his dad put an arm around me and kissed the side of my head and whispered, “ I thank God for you every day, kid.” This so Good! Hazel brought the old Gus back for a few minutes and his family finally got to see the old Gus before he passed away. It is so nice to see that Haze and Gus love emerge, since the last few chapters have been depressing and awkward. This is also a sign of verbal irony, when a character says something but means the other (sarcasm). I hope to continue this side of Gus and for Isaac to come in the picture again because the three amigos/ musketeers are so hilarious together. I remember a few chapters back in the book when they were all together and were cracking jokes with each other; it was just so nice to see ALL of them so happy. I wish Isaac would have gone to Amsterdam with Hazel, which would’ve been really nice to read. Anyway, MORE ISAAC. If I were Haze I would have been so proud of myself and would have been happy. I also like the way Gus’s father showed how much he appreciates Hazel and what she does for Gus.
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Delete"I glanced at the alarm clock: 2:35 A.M. He’s gone, I thought as everything inside of me collapsed into a singularity." This line scared me to pieces. I hoped that Augustus was not gone with everything in me. I knew that could not be it. I was so happy to see that he was not dead. This chapter was kind of like a breaking point for me. Especially the part where Hazel went to go get Augustus from the gas station. “Where is my chance to be somebody’s Peter Van Houten?” He hit the steering wheel weakly, the car honking as he cried. He leaned his head back, looking up. “I hate myself I hate myself I hate this I hate this I disgust myself I hate it I hate it I hate it just let me fucking die.” This made me angry and sad at the same time. All the emotions raised in me. Why does Gus feel like this? I know its bad right now, but it gets worse, before it gets better. He might be terminal, but that is exactly how Hazel was earlier in the novel. She didn't think life even mattered, because of her cancer, until Augustus came into her life. and I think Augustus feels the same. Now Hazel has to be the strong one and encourage someone else, like others were doing for her. Now she's considered "healthy" in Augustus' case, so its her turn. She fell in love with a grenade and she didn't even know it. The thing is, she didn't want to fall in love with him and she didn't want him to fall in love with her. Now they are both grenades, but Augustus is bound to blow first.
ReplyDeleteThe quote that stands out to me best is stated “The Augustus Waters of the crooked smiles and unsmoked cigarettes was gone, replaced by this desperate humiliated creature sitting there beneath me.” This quote stands out to me because what Hazel is saying about Augustus is referring back to the affects Augustus have with cancer. I agree with Hazel. I also believe that Augustus have been replaced by a humiliated creature. He’s sneaking out in the middle of the night where he should be resting. Anything real serious could’ve happened to him. He could’ve been feeling dizzy. He could’ve passed out. He could’ve passed away. When Hazel went to the gas station where Augustus was, he was sitting in his own throw up, holding one of his messed up G-Tubes. If I was Hazel, from the moment I seen him I would’ve called the ambulance right away. Augustus should’ve just wait until the next day to get his cigarettes or just waited until his parents got them like they said they were. Augustus isn’t like he just to be anymore. To both me and Hazel, he changed. Why is he doing this to himself? I think he’s just risking his life to die. After he found out about the huge situation, he seems like he just gave up on everything. He just gave up on life itself. Like is this a way of going through depression? Is he going through anything that’s making him the way he’s acting now? I’m just wondering because I honestly do not like this type of Augustus. But I have to accept the fact that he has cancer and he is going to go through some changes that may affect him as a person.
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A qoute i like is"he gone i thought as everything inside of me collaosed".ii like tjis quote because hazek know hus time is coming a.d sont want ti yhink he died everytime he call, but cant control it. Another qoute i like is"even cancer isn't a bad guy really. Cancer just want to be alive" . I like this quote because they eakuzed what cancer is not what it do. And also they rwaluzeing its uncontrollable.
ReplyDeleteThe quote that stands out to me the most is “….. some things wrong with the G-tube and I can’t figure it out and –“” I’m calling nine-one-one,” I said. “No no no no no, they’ll take me to the hospital. Hazel, listen to me. Do not call nine-one-one or my parents I will never forgive you don’t please just come please just come and fix my goddamned G-tube.”(pg. 243). This quote stood out to me because not calling the hospital was stupid honestly and for Hazel to go with it was just foolish, that’s why Gus’s mother has a grudge on Hazel for things like that, and we all know that Gus could never not forgive Hazel that’s like shooting the love of your life for no reason. Another quote that stood out to me is” Oh, God, Augustus, we have to get you to a hospital.”” Please just look at it.” I gagged from the smell but bent forward to inspect the place above his belly button where they’d surgically installed the tube. The skin of his abdomen was warm and bright red. “Gus, I think something’s infected. I can’t fix this. Why are you here? Why aren’t you at home?” He puked, without even the energy to turn his mouth away from his lap. “Oh, sweetie, “I said. “I wanted to buy a pack of cigarettes,” he mumbled. “I lost my pack. Or they took it away from me. I don’t know. They said they’d get me another one, but I wanted …..to do it myself. Do one little thing myself.” He was staring straight ahead. Quietly, I pulled out my phone and glanced down to dial 911. “I’m sorry,”…………………………………..He looked up at me. It was horrible. I could hardly look at him.”(pg. 244-245). This quote stood out to me also because I know how it feels to just do something yourself, but can’t because it’s for the best.
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ReplyDelete“I hate myself I hate myself I hate this I hate this I disgust myself I hate it I hate it I hate it just let me fucking die.” This qoute made me have a big lump in my throat. Like i wanted to cry so bad because it reminds me of this bullying movie. It's called Cyber Bullying. Now people might think that the movie has nothing to do with the qoute, but if you really read between the lines it does. Like in the movie something happened to her over the net and she wanted to kill her self but at the end she found out that it was her bestfriend who made up a fake page. And in the qoute it is saying that Augustus really hates this cancer that is killing him and he wants it to kill him already. So basically in both the movie and qoute they let something so little get to them and make them go pass their breaking point to make them want to die. Augustus should have just stayed strong and not let this cancer take over him even though it already has.
ReplyDeleteMy favorite quote from chapter 18 is "I will never forgive you don't please just come please...im just ,God, this is the stupidest thing. I don't want my parents to know I'm gone. please." This is my favorite quote from chapter 18 because it relates to my life, like when you know you did something wrong and you call the other only person you trust because you don't want your parents to know what you did simply because they will worry too much or yell at you because you did something you know you shouldn't have done. A question that I have about this quote though is why didn't Augustus ask Hazel to take him to the gas station for some cigarettes ? Why did he try to go by himself knowing that he can barely move. When hazel calls the Ambulance to help Augustus I know how she feels because when people call me and want me to help them in situations like that, I always do what they don't ask me to do, like calling the Ambulance when Augustus told Hazel not to, because I know that they need help, and instead of trying to be sneaky and do stupid stuff I always try to help them, because your health is more important.
ReplyDeleteA quote that stood out to me is "But this was the truth, a pitiful boy who desperately wanted not to be pitiful screaming and crying, poisoned by an infected G-Tube that kept him alive, but not alive enough". I like this quotes because the tube is not keeping him alive to where he can live for a long time but the tube is working for a certain period of time. Augustus is pitiful and worthless because he cant get any better Hazel is so eorried about him. Hr cries and screams for help he cant survive on his own. His support system is so strong to look at him go through this tough time in his life.
ReplyDeleteA line in chapter 18 that i like is , “I hate myself I hate myself I hate this I hate this I disgust myself I hate it I hate it I hate it just let me fucking die.” This line is sad its just disappointing. He's giving up on himself, I never really thought of him giving up. He wants to die. I know if somebody was in the pain he's in ,they might want to die to. Life is hard if you going through what he's going through. I don't think I'll be able to live with myself if I Kept throwing up , peeing, and pooping on myself. That is disgusting and embarrassing. If the pain was excruciating an all this Is I might say the same thing, especially if the one I love Keeps looking at me in this condition. This quote is just sad to read.
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My favorite quote from chapter 18 was, “I wanted…to do it myself. Do one little thing myself.” I picked this quote because it reminds me a lot of the way I feel towards myself. I feel as if my family handicaps me from making my own choices and decisions on my own. I want to be free to make my own decisions, because it is the only way I will learn in life. I know how Augustus feels to have everything done for him, sometimes it can help with time management, but sometimes people could feel like a burden to someone. I think Augustus wants to feel the way he use to before he got sick; young and free. Before Augustus became sick his parents allowed him to have his freedom and privacy, but now they are constantly watching and doing everything for him. This can become quite annoying to someone. I hate when my mom or anyone else makes my decisions for me. I think about it this way, how will I learn from my mistakes or the importance of the decisions I made if all of my decisions are made for me. I think this contributes to theme of growing up isn’t easy. I say this because growing up consists of making mistakes and being able to acknowledge how those choices contribute to your life. I don’t think Augustus wants to do only one thing for himself, but I think he wants to have the freedom of his life back.
ReplyDelete"I glanced at the alarm clock: 2:35 A.M. He’s gone, I thought as everything inside of me collapsed into a singularity" this quote was like a kind of scary quote because everyone thought that Augustus was gone. Hazel hesitated to pick up the phone afraid of what the person on the phone is going to say. also i feel as though I knew that could not be it that Augustus wasn't really gone. “I wanted…to do it myself. Do one little thing myself.” i picked this quote because i felt bad for Augustus because it seems like everything is done for him. Also i feel like the time Augustus decides to do something on his own something goes wrong and i feel so sorry for him.
ReplyDeleteAlthough in this chapter Augustus is stuck at the gas station with a messed up G-tube and throwing up everywhere the only thing I seen that was really significant was the poem Hazel recited to Augustus. The poem was basically describing Augustus and Hazel. Besides that nothing else was really that important to type about. But I think Augustus will be able to do what he wanted during his final hours.
ReplyDeleteI really didn’t pick a quote for this chapter because I couldn’t find a good one that I can explain so I’m just going to summarize what the story was about. It was a least midnight or past it and Hazel gets a call from Augustus. H was crying and calling for help saying that he was at the gas station. Hazel gets up a rush over there but on the way there she wonders why Gus was out this late and what was he doing? She finally reaches him at the gas station and finds him helpless with puke all over himself with the G tube. He says that he was just coming out to get a pack of cigarettes because he had lost his other pack somewhere. She hated to see him like this but this was the new Augustus Waters. He begged her not to call the ambulance but she didn’t know what else to do because the love of her life needed help and badly. Augustus just wanted Hazel to take him home and clean him up but something was really wrong with him. So she called the police and told them that the love of her life needed help and fast. She apologized to him but she had to do it. Then they told each other they love each other.
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ReplyDeleteIn this chapter, Hazel wakes up at 2 a.m. to see that her phone is ringing. She's immediately thinks that Augustus has died. When she picks up, Augustus says he needs her help. After she heard his voice she was more confident and relaxed. He's was at the gas station and he want Hazel to fix his G-tube. He doesn't want to go to a hospital and just wants her to come help him. So she gets up and writes an note for her parents to know where she was and goes to help Gus. When she gets to the gas station, she sees that Augustus is inside his car, he has vomited, and that his G-tube looked infected. As she exited the car, her heart was racing. After seeing him in the car, she was wondering if this could be a life threating problem and if she would lose him. He asked her not to call 911 and that he would never forgive her if she did but she calls 911and waits for an ambulance to come. Even though he asked her not to call them she calls because she really loves him and feels like it was the right thing to do. He starts to say that he hates himself, that he hates all of this, and that he just wants to die. He asked Hazel to recite a poem for him so, Hazel stays with Augustus and recites a poem to him as he loses consciousness.
--- Amia Gordy
Quote: "He gone I thought as everything inside of me collapsed.”
ReplyDeleteThe reason I pick this quote because Hazel is showing some real true hard emotion about Augustus the love of he life. This is the first novel that I have read and a person in the novel shows a lot emotion for a person and I congrats Hazel for the sympathy and the careening that she shows to Augustus. That mean she will doing anything for him and I can recall in the novel that she said I will want to be buried with him because she loves him that much, and I know Augustus feels the same about Hazel. I know Augustus will love Hazel for the rest of his life, and I know Hazel feels the same about Augustus and when they die they be reunited in heaven where a perfect couple belongs and they left a wonderful legacy behind.
Ny'Asia Burroughs
ReplyDeleteIn this chapter hazel gets a call from agustus at 2:00 in the morning. Hazel is very afraid that Gus called because he died but instead he was at the gas station trying to buy cigarettes and he needed help with his g-tube , it was affected. He looks helpless and terrible . He tells hazel not to call 911 but she still called because she loved him and she knew he needed help. My least favorite quote is when agustus says , "I hate myself , I hate myself...." . It's really sad that he has to go through this because of cancer. He feels like his life has no meaning, and that's sad for a teenager to think that about himself. Though I liked how hazel cared enough to call the police because she knew he needed proper help. My favorite part was despite how Agustus looked hazel still saw the crooked smiled handsome boy she admired in support group.
The quote that I chose for chapter 18 was "I glanced at the alarm clock; 2:35 A.M. He's gone..." When Hazel says this I'm thinking that Augustus has died. When she picks up the phone I was relieved that it was Augustus. It was sad that he had the thought of wanting to die faster because it showed that he was too weak to fight his cancer and that he had to just deak with it and suffer. He couldn't do the only thing he really could do anymore which was smoke his unlit cigarette. It is also sad to see how Hazel has to deal with Augustus' cancer. Watching the main person who she loved suffer everytime she saw him. The main thing I like from this scene was how Hazel called the ambulance even though he said not too. I think Hazel did the right thing because Augusts' parents finding out that he left the house without permission was not worse than dying in a parking lot.
ReplyDelete“He’s gone, I thought as everything inside of me collapsed.” This quote means that when Hazel got the call from Augustus at 2:00 am, she thought to herself that “He’s gone, meaning that he died. Everything inside of her collapsed and she thought that she was dying too. That was the most horrible feeling she has ever had. She was so afraid because she was thinking how she would have to go on in life without Augustus. She loved Augustus with all her heart and wanted to spend the rest of her life with him and she was wondering how she was going to live after that. What was she going to do with Augustus.
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