Thursday, September 26, 2013

The Fault in Our Stars

The Fault in Our Stars, a novel by John Green, is story narrated by sixteen year old cancer patient Hazel, who is forced to attend a support group by her parents. In the support group she meets and falls in love with a seventeen year old, Augustus Waters, an amputee who lost his leg to osteosarcoma. The book is filled with many beautiful quotes and messagaes. Some of my favorite quotes are:
" My thoughts are stars I cannot fathom into constellations"
" Some infinities are bigger than other infinities"
" The marks humans leave are too often scars"
The whole book is just amazing and that clever title comes from Shakespeare's play Julius Caesar (Act I: Scene II), The nobleman Cassius says to Brutus, 'The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, / But in ourselves, that we are underlings." 

Here is a link about the upcoming film:
http://news.moviefone.com/2013/09/19/the-fault-in-our-stars-shailene-woodley-and-ansel-elgort/


If you don't believe me, read what the author has to say about why his book is so successful:
http://fishingboatproceeds.tumblr.com/post/51645711954/why-has-the-fault-in-our-stars-been-so-successful


7 comments:

  1. i tried to comment--but my comment got lost. like the looks of your page. i also voted but it changed my vote from not likely to very likely. why don't you have the class vote? send everyone a link to your page and tell them about that survey on the right.

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  2. I can see your comment Dr. Peckham!

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  3. Oh, good--I'm just getting the hang of this. Great work here. Do let others know of your suvey

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  4. This is Kaitlin as Dr. Peckham: I really like the poll on the side of the blog and that you are touching on all different kinds of movie genres!

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    1. Thanks Kaitlin. I'm interested to see how people feel since so many movies now are coming straight from books.

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  5. This is Josh from class not sure how to get my name to show but the store The fault in out stars seems very interesting. I would recommend that you read look into is the Divine Comedy it is and old book but I think you would like the way the author words things and the history behind how the author wrote the book is interesting. He would right how books in one night after waking up from a dream and just start writing for hours. I hope you look it up and like it,

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    1. The Divine Comedy by Dante? I have read Dante's inferno and it was an interesting read.

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