Hazel is a
girl with cancer in the lungs; she is not depress cause she knows that someday
she will die, but her mother thinks Hazel is depress because she reads one book
(An Imperial Affliction) over and over again and she likes to stay at home, so
her mom took her to a Support group for people with cancer.
Hazel
really hates going to the group because she thinks it´s more depressing to be
there, listening the stories. Patrick is the leader of the group and he used to
have cancer and he got cure, so he created the group in “the heart of Jesus”.
One day in
the group a new boy was staring at her, so she can´t believe it because he is
hot and she doesn´t feel pretty. During the session Hazel figure out that
Augustus (the name of the boy) is a friend of Isaac (the boy whom Hazel has
more relation). At the end of the session Augustus starts flirting with Hazel
and ask her out to his house to see a movie (V for Vendetta) and she accept.
At his
house they start knowing better each other, telling their story, how was their
life before knowing they had cancer and he give her a book from a video
game and she tell him about her favorite
book AIA and she promise to call him
when she finish to meet again.
Next day
it´s Hazel birthday so she goes to the mall with Katelyn, she was a friend o
Hazel at school and now she rarely see each other cause three years ago Hazel
left school and she is in collage now at MCC.
Hazel
doesn´t feel comfortable with people so she ask Katelyn to leave and she stay
alone at the mall finishing the book Gus gave her. There is when she notice she
prefers to be alone.
She call
Gus to tell him she finished and ask him if he finished AIA and he hasn´t, so
for watching each other he has to end the book.
Next day
after school Hazel goes to the movies with her mom, and she enjoyed it, when
they went home she called Gus cause he texted her he finished the book, so he
invite her to his place.
When Hazel
arrives she notice Isaac crying and he was sad because he just had broken with
Monica his girlfriend, so he starts destroying the trophies that Gus didn´t
like.
New vocabulary:
- Apace: In such a way or at such a speed as to keep up the requisite momentum. (http://www.thefreedictionary.com/apace) For example: You are always so apace, you should slow your rythm of life.
- Dwarfed: To cause to appear small by comparison. (http://www.thefreedictionary.com/dwarfed) For example: When I lost I felt so dwarfed.
Favorite quotes
- I really liked the prayer they make in the support group “God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can and the wisdom to know the difference”.
- I also liked when Hazel respond against Gus saying “When all of us are dead. All of us. There will come a time when there are no human beings remaining to remember that anyone ever existed or that our species ever did anything. There will be no one left to remember Aristotle or Cleopatra, let alone you. Everything that we did and built and wrote and thought and discovered will be forgotten and all of this will have been for naught…”
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