Fault in Our Stars

In this book club book The Fault in our Stars by, John Green is about a grirl named Hazel who has a very deadly form of cancer in her lungs. This type of cancer causes her to carry around a bottle of hair with her. Because of this she cannot go to school or do any other activities that usual 16 year olds do. Her life is very anticlimactic, filled with T.v shows and cancer groups. Then she meets Augustus Waters,  who had just recoverd fro cancer. He teaches her how to live, think, love and dream like she never thought she would be able to in her life. Between various deadly experinces with he rcancer, Augustus takes her on journeys that she never forgets. They fall head over heels for each other with both of their passionate love of reading and short time they have to live as well. They tae each other on their journeys into each other's lives full of tragedies, joy and deaths. 


In this book the author goes very deep into Hazels life an dinto her daily activities, and what she felt about her disease. When the author takes us on Hazels ride through life, we see very clearly what a cancer patient has to sacrifice when they develop this disease. I think this helps our world connect with loved ones who are getting this disease. It helps us know how to connect with them in ways that people might not know how to. Cancer patients at this young age not only give up their education but also give up their social life. They are isolated by their medications, doctors, cancer groups, and parents. They are limited as to what they can do. I think that this book helps us know what exactly patients with cancer are going through, and what we could do to help them through their painful life. 

Elsewhere

The book that I'm currently reading is a book called Elsewhere, by ..... IN this book a girl named Liz, who's about 14 years old is killed in a biking accident. She wakes up not knowing where she is, and is apparently on a boat which reads the Nile. She discovers that this boat is full of adventures. She soon realizes that the boat is taking her to a place called Elsewhere. This place (which she soon finds out) is a place where people go after they die. They start to age backwards and eventually start a new life as a new born on Earth after their designated time in Elsewhere. When Liz arrives in Elsewhere, she's heartbroken. Even though she has her grandmother who died a few years ago from cancer to look after her, so missed Earth desprately. She spent all her time watching over her parents, friends and relatives, that just made her more homesick each day. She is stuck in a pit of sadness and thinks she will never be able to move on with her life.

I think that what Liz is experincing is unreal. YOu are picked up from your life in Earth at a very young age and placed in a new world with new people and a new way of life is exposed to you. I think though that watching over everyone you once new on Earth is going to do her no good. I think that it's a  waste of time and that she is observing people that she can never know or see again in her life span. All in all I think she should eventually get over it and start a new life or she will get nowhere because she;s not even trying.