Why do you think John Green decided to put Kaitlyn in the book? Why would Hazel be friends with someone like her?
John Green decided to put Kaitly in the book because that would conect the reader to Hazel's past. It would give us the opportunity to sneak in her past, as for to know her a little more.
I think that asking why she would be friends with Kaitlyn isn't something we are able to answer, unless you are Hazel, but even if we were Hazel that wouldn't guarantee that we would be able to answer that question. Sometimes we don't know why we are friends with somebody, specially when there are so many differences, but that doesn't matter, because nothing is more important than a good friendship.
Have you ever felt a deep passion for a literature work as the one Hazel feels towards An Imperial Affliction? What’s the real reason for her liking it so much?
As a fervent reader, I have felt a deep passion for many literary books, and TFIOS is one of them.
The real reason for Hazel for liking AIA so much, is because she sees herself in Anna, who also has cancer, and who might share many feelings and thoughts with Hazel. That's why the book turned out to be so relevant in her life.
Hazel feels as a grenade, something that is a side effect of having cancer, and she has the need of knowing all the things that implies being a grenade, as for example, wanting to know what will happen to her parents when she passes away.
When the book ends midsentence, she understands that Anna dies, as well as she understands that there will be a moment when she also will, but the reason of why it really bothers her that she won't know what happened to Anna's mom, is because she won't know what will happen to her parents when she dies. That's why she is so desperate to know what happens to the characters of the book. She wants to make sure that after her death all the people that surround her will be able to continue with their lives. That's why she is so happy when she finds out that her mom was studying for being a support group leader. She knows that after she dies, her mom's life wasn't going to be so empty and hard, since she would have something to do after only taking care of her.
(It would also be something hard for her dad, but as he had part of his time filled with his job, Hazel doesn't shows so worried about him. Also, in AIA Anna lives only with her mom, so she doesn't have any character in the book to reflect her father with)
While in the basement, Augustus, Isaac and Hazel deal with different issues, from which I want you to reflect on :
a-“Pain demands to be felt...” (p.18)
b- “Salvation is temporary...”(p.19)
I think both of these statements sumarise, in a way, how life is. It shows the important part that pain takes in our lives. In there wasn't pain, we wouldn't be able to feel happy (b); happiness and grief will only exist only if the other does. As a consequence of this, even if we feel happy, safe (salvation) there has to come a time were pain will enter in scene again to demand to be felt again. Even if this is true , we never have to forget that such as salvation is temporary, pain is also temporary. Of course, sometimes pain can be very bdifficult to deel with, but we learn to lve with it, and if we can't feel happy, we can still feel calm, wich is a kind of salvation.
What’s TRUE LOVE to Isaac and Hazel? Who do you most agree with?
For Isaac, true love means that if you make a promise, even when you didn't actually know what itimplied, you have to keep it anyway.It is also something that everybody should find in their lives. In this part of the book Hazel doesn't really know what true love is, and although she thinks Isaac's definition of true love is pretty good, I think that true love to her and to Augustus- is choosing by who you get hurt. I mostly agree with Hazel, because when you love someone it doesn't matter if you can't love that person, or if you know you'll get hurt, you still choose to love him/her.