If you found out that you had
ONE WEEK left to live, what
would you do?
1. anomaly: a deviation from the common
rule, type, arrangement
2. bacchanalia: a drunken feast; orgy
3. bereft: to deprive and make desolate,
especially by death
4. calibrate: to plan or devise something
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application, appeal
5. coterie: a group of people who associate
closely, an exclusive group; clique
*Green grew up in Orlando,
Florida
*He graduated from Kenyon
College in 2000 with a double
major in English and Religious
Studies.
*After leaving college, Green
spent five months working as a
student chaplain in a children's
hospital
*He attended the University of
Chicago Divinity School at the
time, although he never actually
attended.
*His experiences of working with
children with life-threatening
illnesses inspired him to later
write The Fault in Our Stars.
* Hazel Grace Lancaster: 16, is the
novel's narrator. She goes by Hazel, but
Augustus (and sometimes his father)
calls her "Hazel Grace". She is a thyroid
cancer patient, having been diagnosed
when she was 13.
*Augustus Waters: 17, is in remission.
He was diagnosed with osteosarcoma at
a young age and lost his right leg to the
disease.
*Isaac: Augustus' best friend. He has eye
cancer, and eventually loses his sight
because of it.
*Peter Van Houten: a recluse author
whose first and only work, An Imperial
Affliction, serves as the basis of most of
Hazel's beliefs for both her life and
relationship with Augustus.
*Mrs. Lancaster: Hazel's mom. She often takes every
opportunity to be enthusiastic at small occasions, such as
Hazel's "half-birthdays", Hazel describes her mother as
her best friend.
*Mr. Lancaster: Hazel's dad, a man who tends to cry a lot.
*Mrs. Waters: Augustus' momMark Waters: Augustus' dad
*Lidewij Vliegenthart: Van Houten's personal assistant.
*Kaitlyn: One of Hazel's only friends left from high school.
*Patrick: social worker who runs the support group. He
once had testicular cancer and was supposed to die
*Monica: Isaac's girlfriend
Thyroid Cancer
* Is a malignant thyroid neoplasm
originating from follicular or
parafollicular thyroid cells.
* Affects a person’s ability to
breathe and speak.
* Occurs often in young females
Osteosarcoma
* The eighth most common form of
childhood cancer, comprising
2.4% of all malignancies children,
and approximately 20% of all
primary bone cancers.
* Incidence rates for osteosarcoma
in U.S. patients under 20 years of
age are estimated at 5.0 per
million per year.
* It originates more frequently in
the metaphysical region of
tubular long bones, with 42%
occurring in the femur, 19% in the
tibia, and 10% in the humerus.
About 8% of all cases occur in the
skull and jaw, and another 8% in
the pelvis.
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2. deign: to think fit or in accordance with one's
dignity; condescend
3. dishevel: hanging loosely or in disorder; unkempt
4. dysmorphia: malformation; an abnormality in the
shape or size of a body part
5. edema: effusion of fluid into cells or body
cavities
1.Eponymous: giving ones name to a
tribe, place, album
2.Existential: [ly] pertaining to
existence
3.Flummox: [ed] to bewilder, confound,
confuse
4.Fraught: filled or laden with
5.Hamarita: tragic flaw
1.Inexorable: unyielding, unalterable
2.Insipid: without distinctive,
interesting, or stimulating qualities
3.Lascivious: inclined to lustfulness;
wanton; lewd
4.Malevolent: evil, harmful, injurious
5.Misnomer: a misapplied or
inappropriate name or designation
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Nihilism: nothingness or nonexistence... an extreme form of
skepticism: the denial of all real existence or possibility of
objective basis for truth
Ontological: [ly] of or pertaining to ontology: the branch of
metaphysics that studies the nature of existence or being as
such
Palliative: serving to relieve or lessen without curing, mitigate,
alleviate
Sobriquet: a nickname
Trope: any literary or rhetorical devise, as a metaphor,
metonymy, synecdoche, and irony, that consist in the use of
words in other than their literal sense
Vernacular: native or indigenous language, language of people
opposed to literary language