The Fault In Our Stars By John Green

The Misfit was misunderstood; He does understand why he’s being punished for what he does. “I call myself the Misfit because I can’t make what I done wrong.”

Imagine a clear summer night, gazing up at the stars when all of a sudden something goes zooming across the sky. A shooting star perhaps or could it be something more. This is how “Monsters are Due on Maple Street” begins and ends, with the unknown. Now, there is no evidence to prove or disprove the existence of alien life forms, but one young boy puts doubt into the minds of everyone on Maple Street. The fear, paranoia, and suspicion the characters’ experience is directly related to real-life events that took place in the nineteen-fifties.

When the things you own and the money you have to your name is stripped away, the only thing that is remaining is the rawest version of yourself. Every characteristic, trait, moral, is on full display when we take away these things that seem to disguise our true identity. In the powerful memoir, Fresh Off the Boat, Eddie Huang describes these battles he faced in order to develop the most genuine identity for himself. Born to taiwanese immigrants, Eddie experienced the rough reality of social class. From being poor and sharing two dinosaurs with his brothers, to driving the top of the line Benz at 16, Eddie is able to credibly describe the experience and harsh truths of social class and the importance that is placed on it. Through humorous

Would you like to know where and how loneliness can occur through characters in novels and in reality? Well, in the book Of Mice and Men, by Jerry Steinback a commonly occurring central problem is based off of many forms of loneliness occurring through many, if not every character besides sub characters where we do not get a deep enough of an insight to create ideas or inferences about them. Of Mice and Men, is a story mainly focused on two characters, one named Lennie who’s mentally ill and who’s incapable of anything except the needs of physical strength. And another named George, who is smart but caught in the guilt of Lennie’s needs. Meaning, he was and got stuck with Lennie because Lennie ‘s guardian who was George’s friend died so Lennie had no one except his friend George. They together travel as poor migrant workers, and what makes things worse is that Lennie doesn’t know how to stay out of trouble. George works hard in trying to keep a steady life with Lennie, but it’s literally impossible with a man like Lennie. George can’t always be with Lennie to keep him from doing things he isn’t supposed to do. Eventually they get going on a new ranch after an incident with Lennie, and Lennie 's troubles bring him to killing the Master’s son’s wife of their new ranch, where George is later forced to kill Lennie. Loneliness is displayed throughout the book through certain characters who experience it

High school, the stage of life when young adults begin to learn of their place in society and the lessons of life. The harsh conditions of being thrown into an ocean of peer pressure, social status, world issues and varying opinions causes rapid growth to occur. Some gather into groups, called cliques, to overcome these hardships, while others fight them head on by themselves. In the coming to age movie, The Breakfast Club, five different high school teenagers are forced to be together one Saturday morning and afternoon in detention. Brian Johnson the brain, Andrew Clarke the athlete, Allison Reynolds the basket case, Claire Standish the princess and John Bender the criminal, are all forced to be caged together and think about who they

The literary element setting includes the time when the story happens and location where the story takes place. Some stories use variety of settings to initiate an interesting beginning. However, the 12 Angry Man has only one fixed setting – the jury room, which is not commonly used in a novel. The author, Reginald Rose, overcomes the limitation in setting by describing changes in weather, initiating different types of character and imitating the events of the murder.

Have you ever been judged by people who don’t really know who you are? Maybe it was because of the way you looked, or your social class. This is a problem that occurs all too often, and it happens everywhere. S.E Hinton, author of “The Outsiders,” noticed this happening in her own neighbourhood, so she made this a huge part of the theme of her book. She wanted people to stop judging others before they really knew who they were, and their life circumstances. In this book there are two main social classes she focused on, the Socs, they were rich, and lived in the nice part of town, and the Greasers, who were poor and didn’t have a great place to live. This caused them to constantly have fights. The Socs were seen as the good ones to the cops

Each generation of adolescent teens have to deal with similar to almost identical issues or problems that the previous generation had to face head on. Whether it be the mess of emotions called love, trying to be accepted from your parents, or merely trying to figure out the world around them. Teen movies shed a light on the complex lives a teengers. In the films, Breakfast Club, Heathers, and Donnie Darko, the idea of figuring out who one is an individual runs through each movie through their teenage characters.

The performance I chose to focus on is Twelve Angry Men by Reginald Rose. It is a play I went to watch at the repertory theatre in Birmingham. The play is set up in a New York City court of law jury room in 1957. The play opens in an empty jury room, where the judge’s voice is heard in the background, giving a set of final instructions to the jurors. From this voice over the audience instantly get an impression that it is a murder case and that if found guilty, the required sentence for the accused is the death penalty.

“The Big Uneasy” by Harry Shearer is a documentary about the disastrous flooding of New Orleans during the Hurricane Katrina in a different viewpoint. While mass media describe the flood as well as the hurricane as a natural disaster, Shearer claims that the flooding was actually a man-made disaster, not a natural one; and the film contains comprehensive investigations with scientific data to support the claim. “The Big Uneasy” highlights on the ineffective design and maintenance of the flood-protection system, as well as the engineering structure of the Mississippi River’s waterway in the city. Severe environmental damages due to poor infrastructural planning also ruin the natural flood barrier of the region. Furthermore, these problems

In today’s society, our present-time youth culture has many different trends that can be used for entertainment, sending out a message, religious views, clothing, technology, etc. There are a lot of good trends that can benefit society, but there are also bad ones too. In the novel, “The Circle” by Dave Eggers, the author explains how different kind of things can change our society. For example, new innovative technology, social media, privacy, interaction with other people, and how this can affect people.

The outsiders is about boys being stereotyped as people called greasers, And a kid named ponyboy is the second youngest. Harry potter is a book about a boy who lived through a terrible killing genocide by a feared wizard named Voldemort or Tom Riddle. Flowers for algernon, Or FFA is a book about a guy with a mind disablity, his IQ was very low for a grown man. All of these characters, Ponyboy, Harry Potter and Charlie Gordon all struggled to have the world accept them and it was very hard for them to fit in.

A Beautiful Mind, a 2001 biographical drama, tells the story of John Nash; the film is based on a book by the same name, which was a biography of the real John Nash . The film depicts Nash’s life as he develops paranoid schizophrenia; this paper will focus on the film, the disorder itself, and the accuracies and inaccuracies of how paranoid schizophrenia was portrayed in the film.

In the novel, Green (2014) discusses multiple questions about fears, life, and death. "My fears...I fear oblivion" (Green, 2014, p. 17). The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines oblivion as the condition of the state of being forgotten or unknown. But is Augustus actually scared of oblivion, or just not being an NBA player, a modern Gandhi, or famous poet. Throughout The Fault in Our Stars, Augustus opens up to wanting to be remembered after his existence expires (Green, 2014, p. 240). As human beings, we often wonder whether or not we'll ever be remembered. If you truly wonder, we're really just a grain of sand, with the odds of our names going down in history with the chances, slim to none. We individual, have no control whether or not we'll be remembered.

Elizabeth Cohen, Senior Medical Correspondent for CNN on line, published the story of a young couple, Katie and Dalton, both of whom had previously been diagnosed with cystic fibrosis. Cohen’s article, “What a real ‘Fault in our Stars’ couple taught us about love and medicine’ does not just cover the story of this couple. She summarizes their “touching and tragic tale” and the criticism they received from the public because of their personal and medical choices. The brief paragraph portrays the magic of their .six year marriage and their deaths, which happened within 5 days of each other. This story springboarded the three subsections of the article that followed. They were entitled: “You get to make a choice that might hasten your death,”