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Essay On Thyroid Cancer

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For all the teenagers who just adore love stories and the way life resembles itself, this movie is definitely for you! Well to start out, imagine life of a seventeen year old girl with Thyroid Cancer whose days are numbered until she falls in love with a boy at some boring support group. This movie is based on the book called The Fault in Our Stars by John Green. This isn’t like your normal love story like The Notebook, Dear John, Romeo and Juliet, etc. I think Josh Boone directed this astonishing love story that allows you to literally fall in love with it like the way you fall asleep, slowly, then all at once. Life starts out for a seventeen year old girl, Hazel Grace Lancaster, as any normal girl’s life except she suffers with stage four Thyroid cancer with metastasis in her lungs that makes fluid buildup. Only an experimental drug that only works on few can fix that. When Hazel’s mom mentioned to her doctor that she was depressed and was mournful, her doctor suggested a cancer support group to go make friends. As Hazel stated “Depression wasn’t the side effect to sadness; it’s the side effect to death”. She was tempted to go by her mom, but she was glad to because she ran into a boy who actually noticed her. They hit it off pretty well after the support group with …show more content…

The only reason he went to support group was to help out his friend Isaac whose cancer was in his eyes. His last surgery made him go blind. Gus was diagnosed with cancer in his leg which they had to amputate. Now his prosthetic leg keeps him away from judgmental girls. He fears a thing called oblivion, and he feels his goal is to leave a mark on the world. Now his mark is ruined when he is diagnosed with cancer. Augustus met Hazel Grace at the support group also. They became close friends who watched movies, played video games, and read this book that made them close called An Imperial

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