My Head At Her Door

Hazel has a strong identity in the story, she has much self-confidence and is not afraid of letting everyone know that she is the best, “Now some people like to act like things come easy to them, won’t let on that they practice. Not me. I’ll high-prance down 34th street like a rodeo pony to keep my knees strong even if it does get my mother uptight.” p. 1 ll. 29-31. Thus her strong and proud personality, she still loves and protects Raymond and is not afraid of showing this either. At the end of the story Hazel’s view on other people changes, when she sees Raymond running parallel with her at the May Day race in his own unique style. She realizes that everyone is not just who she sees them to be, that there are more to people than you can

“I heard what you said, fool. Wherever this assassin is, I want you and an army of twenty other guards to hunt him down. Do whatever you can.” Her voice was not delicate anymore, as anger rose from her.

Hazel Grace is one of the two main characters in this novel whose family brings comfort and conflict. Hazel often feels suffocated by her mother because she's always around her, but she fails to realize her mother's life revolves around Hazel. Hazel reflects, “Mom couldn’t work because she had taken on the full-time profession of Hovering Over Me,” (127). Hazel is very frustrated with her mother but she can’t be angry with her because her mother put her whole life on pause for her. It took(t) Hazel a very long time to find

Hazel grace was remarkably negative during her cancer battle. A quote from the book is, on page 99, Hazel says “I’m like. Like. I’m like a grenade, Mom. I’m a grenade and at some point I’m going to blow up. I just want to stay away from people… because there’s nothing I can do about hurting you” She was saying that she is going to die and she wants to stay away from people so they don’t end up being hurt.

        This moral tone is reinforced by the behavior of his parents during the episode. Whilst inside the tent, Hazel hears his father remark appreciatively about the nude body: "Had one of themther built into ever' casket, be a heap ready to go sooner." After returning home, Hazel's mother realizes that her son has experienced something that he should not have, and confronts him about it. Though he does not admit what he has done, he proceeds to punish himself. It is inferred that Hazel respects his mother's attitude toward the matter. O'Connor seems to propose that Hazel must do penance for what he has done, or, on a larger scale, for witnessing vulgar displays of sexuality.

I nod, straightening and we’re moving out, keeping to the shadows of the alleyways and overgrowth. Thorn glances back at me after a while, before putting a hand on her hip. “Still think we should have left her behind. This thing goes bad and she’ll freak in the middle of gunfire. She looks like someone who tends to lose their marbles.”

“Yeah, I’m a high class member of society, I live in The Golden Triangle in Greenwich, Connecticut, and I demand that you return me home at once!”Hazel stood up, looking more confident, and happily finding she had a black t-shirt underneath slid off her hideous sweatshirt and cast it aside.

This causes Hazel to struggle with the fact that she will never be part of the normal living

The author begins the story by informing the reader just how much Hazel was detached from her high school experience and affected not only by her grieving family over the deceased of her father, but as well as the thought of living in the shadows of her three older sisters. As stated in the story, “ She wanted the feeling that her life was a small thread in the huge tangle of the world and that nothing she did one way or another mattered all that much” (Ausubel 52). Additionally, Hazel is presented as more of a static character rather than dynamic. Throughout the story the reader is able to realize how little Hazel is unaffected by others.

Session four: I hadnt seen hazel in about a month and right when she walked in I knew something was different. She was smiiling very wide and was the happiest I had ever seen her before. She said that she was doing amazing and that everything was really great as of right now. Her lungs of course, still sucked a being lungs but other than that she was more than happy. Isaac, one of her friends

The reader sees how detached Hazel appears to be from other women in this story. She can’t understand why they are allowed to be sad but when she appears sad she’s told to smile and how nobody wants to hear about other’s troubles. In fact there are only three women who Hazel holds conversations with at all in the story. The first is her

Firstly, within the novel, it is clear that Hazel is a caring person and is fully aware of what her body’s condition does to her

- In Support Group, she meets Augustus Waters and he says he fears oblivion and Hazel goes on a rant about oblivion that catches his attention.

Hazel and Augustus both have cancer and neither are in remission. This means at that moment there were both still fighting cancer. This is a struggle to have during a relationship especially when this is the person you think you want to spend the rest of your life with. At the same time this struggle brings them closer together, because they know what each other are going through. In the text it says,” Hazel Grace, I’m at the gas station. Something’s wrong. You gotta help me.”(page 242) This quote shows how they are both there for each other even in hard times. Another struggle that they have is traveling.

Hazel is also known for not making a big deal out of her problems because in the book she doesn’t seem so troubled about her present conditions she just says it like “whenever you read a cancer booklet or website or whatever, they always list depression among the side effects of cancer. But in fact, depression is not a side effect of cancer. Depression is a side effect of dying” (Ch. 1, pg. 3). She also knows that she is not going to be the perfect cheerleader that everybody wants her to be or something but