Reflect on the following fragments taken from the novel and express your feelings and what the speakers refer to:
a-“I lit up like a Christmas Tree, Hazel Graze.”, admitted Augustus. (page 51)
Augustus expresses here how much pain he felt in his body. A Christmas tree's lights are always turning on and off, and in the whole tree. Augustus would had been feeling a lot of pain in all his body, a pain that sometimes would intensify a lot.
b- “What am I at war with? My cancer. My cancer is me.” Augustus. (page 51)
I felt really sad in this part, because he was sad. He felt as if his cancer had defeated him. He means that his cancer was he, because the tumors were made by his own body, and because he had been so many time a kid with cancer, that he had finally become a only a kid with cancer, without leaving the proper mark he would had love to leave in the world.
c- “It’s a civil war, with a predetermined winner...” Augustus
His body was fighting with something of his own body, and the most likely to succed was the part of his body that was part of his cancer. As I said before, it was sad for me reading all this part, because we see an Augustus´s that feels defeated.
d-“There’s no glory in illness...there’s no honor of dying of...” Augustus.
He says this because, as I said before, he wanted to leave his mark in hthe world, something from wich he could be proud of. He would like to die from something he had done, that from cancer.
e- “I’m on a rollercoaster that only goes up...” Augustus
Again, here we see a defeated Gus. The rollercoester that only goes up symbolizes, such as the elevator, that he is going to Heaven, because of in the battle with cancer, cancer is going to win. The elevator also symbolizes death, because avery time someone was going to die, in the Literal Heart of Jesus they would take the elevator.
f- “Ignorance is a bliss...”Hazel (chapter 14: page 54)
Not knowing things makes us suffer less. In this part, Hazel might refer that it would had been a bliss not knowing that Peter Van Houten was so rude and a murderer of dreams like Augustus said. I agree with her, because that is one of the things that, for example, makes childhood so special. We disown many bad things of the world, as well as our ignorance also makes us have an incredible curiosity for everything.