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Ms. Hall-D'Accordo
“I was tugging at my arm but he wouldn’t let go, and I couldn’t get my cannula with only one hand. It was infuriating. All I wanted was an old-fashioned Teenager Walk-out, wherein I stomp out of the room and slam the door to my bedroom and turn up The Hectic Glow and furiously write a eulogy. But I couldn’t because I couldn’t freaking breathe, “The cannula,” I whined. “I need it.” This is so sad because Hazel’s parents just wanted her to be a “teen” again but when she actually starts to do things with another human her age like normal teens they get mad. I understand where Hazel is coming from all the way. I hate when parents say you need to do something but when you do it they want you to do something else that’s the COMPLETE opposite of what they first said. I mean she shouldn’t have disrespected them like that but they were being inconsiderate of her commitment to GUS! And they weren’t being understanding. If I were Haze I would’ve done the same thing but in a different way because my parents would’ve been way more harsh. Her father really shouldn’t have done that though because what if her heart would’ve got overworked and she had a heart attack or something; I bet they would’ve let her go then. I don’t know I guess I’m just being a typical teen. But yeah though, you know that was messed up. Don’t be that way with her first love.
ReplyDeleteThe quote that stands out to me best is stated “You were the one who didn’t want me to be a homebody,” I said to her. Dad was still clutching my arm. “And now you want him to go ahead and die so I’ll be back here chained to this place, letting you take care of me like I always used to. But I don’t need it, Mom. I don’t need you like I used to. You’re the one who needs to get a life. ”Hazel! Dad said, squeezing harder. “Apologize to your mother.” This quote stands out to me best because I strongly agree on Hazel with this quote. In the beginning of the chapter, Hazel always stayed in the house. The only time she left the house is when she was going to support group. Her mom got tired of her staying in the house a lot so she told her to get out the house. Hazel didn’t really take her advice until her and Augustus met. After that day Hazel has been out the house more. And now her mom have a little issue her leaving the house now. I also kind of agree on Hazel parents too. She’s a very strong person because she’s not just taking care of herself; she’s taking care of Augustus too. Hazel taking care of two people can be a little hard because she’s fighting cancer and she is also helping Augustus fight cancer. Hazel’s parents are just afraid to lose her as much as she is afraid to loose herself. I think that’s the part Hazel doesn't understand. She’s worrying about losing Augustus when she doesn't realize that her parents are worrying about losing her. This type of situation shows dramatic irony.
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A quote i like is " well get a terminal disease and ill stay home with you". I like this quote brcse hazel is trying to stand ip for herself. She is trying to let her parents know how she feel. Another quote i like is"your dad and i hardly see you anytime". I like the because hazel parents do mot understand why she never home. And hazel nust want to spend time with gus
ReplyDeleteThe quote that stood out to me the most was “I have to go to the Support Group at eight tonight. Emergency session.” My mom muted the TV. “Is everything okay?” I looked at her for a second, my eyebrows raised. “I assume that’s a rhetorical question.”” But why would there-“” Because Gus needs me for some reason. It’s fine. I can drive.” I fiddled with the BiPAP so Mom would help me take it off, but she didn’t. “Hazel,” she said, “your dad and I feel like we hardly even see you anymore.”” Particularly those of us who work all week,” Dad said. “He needs me,” I said, finally unfastening the BiPAP myself. “We need you, too, kiddo,” my dad said. He took hold of my wrist, like I was a two-year-old about to dart out into the street, and gripped it. “Well, get a terminal disease, Dad, and then I’ll stay home more.”” Hazel,” my mom said. “You were the one who didn’t want me to be a home-body,” I said to her. Dad was still clutching my arm ………………………………………….But I couldn’t freaking breathe. “The cannula,” I whined. ”I need it.” My dad immediately let go and rushed to connect me to the oxygen tank. I could see the guilt in his eyes, but he was still angry. “Hazel, apologize to your mother.”” Fine, I’m sorry, just let me do this.”(pg. 254-255). This quote stood out to me the most because this is a hard time for everyone, Hazel’s parents are sad that they won’t get enough time with Hazel and Hazel is scared that she won’t get enough time with Augustus. It took a lot of adultery to apologize to something you strongly do not agree with.
ReplyDeleteA quote that stuck out to me in chapter twenty was, “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.” I got this quote because reminds of the death of my both of my brothers. They were both young when they died and they both had their whole lives ahead of them. My oldest brother was 23 and my youngest brother was 4. I believe they deserved more numbers or years that they received, but that’s not up to me to determine. I hope my life lasts as long as it can because life isn’t promised to anyone. I wished that both of my brothers would’ve had the opportunities to live their lives and have as many numbers as they wanted, but that’s not the way it works. I never looked at my age as numbers that are given to me that aren’t infinite. Numbers continue on and on, nonstop without ever ending. Life isn’t this way; God sets a certain number or level that everyone will reach in their life. Life is like a video game with only a certain amount of levels to beat. Once you have completed that game there is no starting over.
ReplyDelete"You were the one who didn't want me to be a homebody,” I said to her. Dad was still clutching my arm. “And now you want him to go ahead and die so I’ll be back here chained to this place, letting you take care of me like I always used to. But I don’t need it, Mom. I don’t need you like I used to. You’re the one who needs to get a life. ”Hazel! Dad said, squeezing harder. “Apologize to your mother. this quote is like an quote when hazel gets into an argument with her parents to go to see her lover which is in the hospital. This quote gives me second thoughts on why is hazel acting like that towards her parents who is trying to help her. I think that hazel should apologize and she should have asked and then none of this would have never happened. "I have to go to the Support Group at eight tonight. Emergency session.” My mom muted the TV. “Is everything okay?” I looked at her for a second, my eyebrows raised. “I assume that’s a rhetorical question.”” But why would there-“” Because Gus needs me for some reason. It’s fine. I can drive.” I fiddled with the Bi Pap so Mom would help me take it off, but she didn't. “Hazel,” she said, “your dad and I feel like we hardly even see you anymore.”” Particularly those of us who work all week,” Dad said. “He needs me,” I said, finally unfastening the Bi Pap myself. “We need you, too, kiddo,” my dad said. this quote gets to me because i think that Augustus needs hazel and since she knows that he is about to die that she should be their for him in return
ReplyDeleteThe significant thing that caught my attention in this chapter was how Gus wanted to have a pre funeral. It's kind of weird because who would want to attend their own funeral. Although funerals are a sacred ceremony in some religions and families I don't see the point in wanting to attend your own funeral.You basically will see people cry over you and talk about you. If I had the chance to attend my own funeral ( Which is impossible since their is no such thing as a spirit or soul in my opinion) I would not because I would not want to see my family cry over me because I would never want to see no one cry especially over me. It's something you have to deal with unfortunately. But Gus is Gus and know one knows him more than John Green.
ReplyDeleteThis chapter was so interesting. There was a lot of exciting things happening in this chapter. Like how Hazel yells and disrespects her mother and Augustus wants a pre funeral to see what it’s going to be like and what people will say about him. Now back to Hazel and her mom situation. Augustus calls Hazel and tells her it’s an emergency so Hazel lies to her parents which her parents wasn’t going to let her out at that time of night. So they got into a huge fight and Hazel says you were the one who didn't want me to be a homebody,” I said to her. Dad was still clutching my arm. “And now you want him to go ahead and die so I’ll be back here chained to this place, letting you take care of me like I always used to. But I don’t need it, Mom. I don’t need you like I used to. You’re the one who needs to get a life. ”Hazel! Dad said, squeezing harder. “Apologize to your mother. She was just focused on Augustus she really didn’t mean to say that to her mother. She didn’t want to lose the love of her life ot=r the woman who she loves dearly and who gave her life.
ReplyDelete“My name is Hazel. Augustus Waters was the great star-crossed love of my life. Ours was an epic love story, and I won’t be able to get more than a sentence into it without disappearing into a puddle of tears. Gus knew. Gus knows. I will not tell you our love story, because—like all real love stories—it will die with us, as it should. I’d hoped that he’d be eulogizing me, because there’s no one I’d rather have . . .” I started crying. “Okay, how not to cry. How am I—okay. Okay.” I chose this scene because it made me think as if she was at the real funeral, it also made me cry a little. I also like this scene because she talks about their love and their bond. I think its kind of weird that Augustus set this up but it all makes sense and its also scary because its like he knows how much time he has left before he does go and that should have gave Hazel and Isaac a hint. "I took a few breaths and went back to the page. “I can’t talk about our love story, so I will talk about math. I am not a mathematician, but I know this: There are infinite 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.” I absolutely love this scene where she mentions this because it brings tears to my eyes. She really is grateful for what they have. I really do not want Augustus to die because I have created lives for them outside this book. Its scary.
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ReplyDeleteA lot went on in chapter 20. Augustus asked Hazel to meet him at the Literal Heart of Jesus around 8:00. Her parents feel as if she never spends time around them at all anymore because she spends all of her time with Augustus. As she began to rush out of the house her dad grabbed her and said " We need you, too, kiddo" on page 254 on the last line.
Chapter 20
ReplyDeleteIn this chapter, Hazel's parents tell her that she can't spend all her time with Augustus, but she counters that he has a limited amount of time left. She gets into a fight with them, finally leaving even though they don't want her to. When they protest, she tells them that Augustus will die any day now, and that totally shuts them up. She drives over to the Literal Heart of Jesus and sees Augustus in a wheelchair. He says he wanted to arrange a pre-funeral for himself. But I think Hazel is right for spending so much time with Gus because she knows she going to make it longer than him and she wants to like him know how much she cares. Any ways her parents wanted her to get out the house more and now that she is, it’s a problem, that’s a shame they need to make up their minds. Gus asked Hazel and Isaac to be at his funeral. Isaac gives a eulogy about how Augustus is an arrogant bastard, and then starts to cry. Hazel also gets up and gives her eulogy, and of course, she cries, too. Her eulogy is about infinities and how she's glad that she and Augustus got to have their own infinities. A quote that I like is “I love you, he said, and I you, I answered”. I like it because the other day my bestfriend was joking and said something that made me act like I was mad. Then, said “I love you, so I said I …you, rolling my eye. Then we laughed. But the point is this quote reminds me of me.
---Amia Gordy
In this chapter hazel is called to go to support group to meet up with Gus and Isaac to write an eulogy and plan a pre funeral . Hazel also gets in a fight with her parents about her spending all of her time with Augustus . I knew this would happen eventually. A quote that stuck out to me was when hazel tells her parents , "we'll get a terminal disease and I'll stay home with you" I found this quote funny. It seemed like something snappy she'd say before she met Augustus. She seemed rude and disrespectful but I see where she's coming from. It's a little selfish of them to say that when they know that the love of her life is dieng and she has limited time with
ReplyDeleteHim. It was also sad tart they were planning things for Gus funeral. I would never wants to even think about my death but Gus is very strong to deal with the reality of it all. I think Isaac will be hurt as much as hazel. He lost his girlfriend , his eyesight and a close friend. I can infer when agustus does a lot of things will change.
"You were the one who didn't want me to be homebody," I said to her. Dad was still clutching my arm. "And now you want him to go ahead and die so I'll be back here chained to this place, letting you take care of me like I always used to. But I don't need it, Mom. I don't need you like I used to. You're the one who needs to get a life." Hazel and her mom are having this big argument about Hazel leaving the house for Augustus the love of Hazel's life who is about to die. Her mom didnt want her to go. Hazel is very passionate about Augustus. She wants to spend every moment with him 24/7 7 days a week. Hazel thinks her mom wants Augustus to die so she will be back in the house taking care of herself and her mom doesn't think that they don't spend as much time together. Her mom used to care for her but she doesn't want it. This quote reminds me of telling my mom that I wanted to leave the house but she didn't want me to because I just had an asthma attack so she didn't want anything to happen to me.
ReplyDelete“Augustus Waters was the great star-crossed love of my life.” This quote means that Hazel Grace is thinking about her love for Augustus. Now that he has died and she’s looking at him at the gravesite, she feels her heart breaking. He was the greatest person and the most loved person in her life. She had dreams of marrying him when they finished college; she was thinking of what their lives would have been together, all the plans they had made before he got sick. She loved him so much, it hurt.
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