Similarities Between The Fault In Our Stars And My Sister's Keeper

The similarities between the two stories speak of life's lessons and the sometimes-painful road we have to take in order to gain life

Both of my text share the idea that the world can be a cruel place and you need to rely on your family to get you through tough times. For example, in The Book Thief, Liesel hears, and experiences all the horrendous things that Hitler had done to the Jews, Communist, etc. “Possibly the only good to

They cannot believe that Anna would do such a thing. They always wondered why she wouldn’t help her sister in her time of need. Anna’s father says, “We all know you’re supposed to love your kids equal, but that’s not always how it works” (147). They call her selfish for not wanting to donate anymore. Anna does feel guilty for not wanting to help her sister, but she is tired of getting stuck with needles and being hospitalized when she is never the one who is sick.

Growing up themes such as social issues, stress, and family are universal. Two novels which

For example, Night and Life is Beautiful are both centered around their similar themes. Their common theme is that when someone has another person to love and something to hope for, they are capable of incredible things. In Night, Elie and his father’s love and hope depend on each other. As long as they were both alive, Elie as well as his father had a reason to stay alive and maintain their hope. But once Elie’s father died, the one person Elie could put his love and hope into was gone. In Life is Beautiful, Guido’s family all depend on each other. The father depends on his son and wife; the son depends on his mother and father; and the mother depends on her son and husband. They each put a little bit of their hope and love into each other. So, when Guido dies, a little part of his wife and son dies as well taking a small part of their hope and love with him. Another similarity between these two fascinating stories is the father-son relationship. As stated in the previous similarity, they rely on each other. However, these two relationships are different within their similarity. Between Elie and Chlomo, Elie’s father, they had a strong relationship that kept them going through everything. At one point, Elie even helped his father get the marching pattern right so Chlomo would not get hurt. Also, Elie gave his bread to his father even when the more logical thing to do was to keep it for himself since he was obviously the only one who had a chance at life then. In this

Firstly, Kate is noticeably affected almost immediately after the death of her mother and father. We see this by her descriptive quotes about how she was feeling and the observations she made about others in her life. Some instances include “I remember being rigid with fear, not daring to look at him” (19), “it was like being at the bottom of the sea” (53), and “...there was a whirlwind howling through me” (54). These quotes represent how Kate felt overwhelmed by unmanageable emotions; she felt almost numb and empty. She even ends up cutting her finger just to feel something and it hardly hurt at all. This is a confused, traumatized little girl. Next, Kate is affected by the basic principles her parents taught. The simple memory of her parents provoked thought of the Presbyterian Commandments they would follow. These principles shape who she is and represent a background where people do not talk about problems or share emotions. “No, you swallow your feelings, force them down inside yourself, where they feed and grow and swell and expand until you explode, unforgivably, to the utter bewilderment of whomever it was who upset you” (36). Lastly, the trauma she has endured has made her scared. Scared of sharing feelings, scared of commitment, scared of loving someone. Daniel, Kate’s boyfriend, feels he is in the dark when it comes to Kate’s past and her emotions. This is because Kate is simply scared to love him. She proves this and it’s connection to her past by saying, “people I love and need have a habit of disappearing from my life” (89). The death of her parents has definitely shaped who she is but some may say, it helped her show resilience and strength to embrace her past and move

"Give me control of a nation's money and I care not who makes the laws." Mayer Amschel Rothschild, patriarch of the Rothschild banking dynasty.

If a participant is an adoptee of an open adoption, they will be released from the testing. The reason why they would be released is because they still have a relationship with their biological family, yes, they are adopted and may have identity issues but they have knowledge of themselves through their biological parents. The “young” group will consist of the participants who answered 1 or 2 on question 1, and the “older” group will consist of the remaining participants. After the participants are separated into these two groups they will be given another survey to take. In this survey the participants will be answering questions regarding the environment at home and at school. This survey will try and estimate different action and choices

The chance Turly not surviving from working in the coal mine, and the fear of marriage not working with a child makes Hazel’s sister concerned. She wants Hazel to cherish the things she already has, before she loses then.

For the Jews of the Holocaust, even their families were not a guaranteed part of their lives. Many of them went to school or out to the store and came home to find their house empty, their families taken away. An example of this is a story from Dora Zuer Iwler, who was out working when the Nazis came and took away her mother and brother and shot her sister (Brostoff, 12). Another story tells about Helbert Silberman’s experience when he goes to live with his grandparents to find their house destroyed and his grandparents missing (Brostoff, 18). These are just two of the many horrible situations in which Jews came home to find their families gone, and these were just minor instances of families being separated. Some instances involved families being ripped apart before they were shipped by cattle cars to their deaths. Ester Haas tells a story about how her sister, Rieke, became separated from her and how she never saw Rieke again once the war was over (Brostoff, 84-85). The movie Escape from Sobibor also depicts families being separated as the Jews arrive at Sobibor camp. Many of the characters must sit there helplessly as their family members are taken away to be killed (DVD). These stories put my life into perspective because my family has not been ripped from my life. My family is very much a part in my life and it hits close to home to imagine a life in which they are gone. These stories make me think about how unbearable life would be if I had nobody left to look after me or love me. Life is difficult enough even with a family looking out for you and helping you, so I would never want to live in a life that doesn’t include them. The concept that the book conveys make me really appreciate the people in my life that care about me. It also makes me

Augustus makes an impact on Hazel’s life. Augustus and Hazel meet at Support Group and grow a close bond. Augustus and Hazel fall deeply in love throughout the story. When Augustus’ cancer sprung up again, he asked Hazel to write him an eulogy. In Hazel’s eulogy she says, “My name is Hazel. Augustus Waters was the great star-crossed love of my life. Ours was an epic love story, and I won’t be able to get more than a sentence into it without disappearing into a puddle of tears”(Green 259). This shows that when Augustus dies he will leave a (mental) scar on Hazel, because Hazel will deeply miss Augustus when he dies. Augustus transformed Hazel

The novel begins when Hazel is going to a cancer support group because her mother thinks she is depressed. During the support group meeting, she meets a handsome boy named Augustus Waters who suffered from osteosarcoma, a bone cancer, although is also is

My Sister's Keeper is the story of Anna Fitzgerald, who by the age of thirteen has undergone many blood transfusions, numerous surgeries, and multiple bone marrow transplants. “Most babies are accidents, not me. I was engineered, born to save my sister’s life.” At the beginning of the movie Anna explains that she as conceived to be a donor for her sister, Kate. Kate is a 16 year old with renal failure due to a very rare form of leukemia. The girls' parents expect Anna to donate her kidney to help her sister. Instead of donating the kidney, Anna files a lawsuit against her parents for the rights of her own body so that she could not be forced into the surgery against her will. This causes mixed reactions between Anna’s parents, Brain

The book revolves around 16 year old Hazel Grace Lancaster, and 17 year old Augustus Waters. Hazel doesn’t lead an ordinary teenage life, she suffers of lung cancer. After a long time of struggling with her illness, her parents decide that

In Beauty and the Beast, the storytellers use the small town and the evil figure with a good heart to show that we as humans tend to be judgmental and push away the people who are different from us without really knowing both sides to the story because we often jump to conclusions and assume that we’re right. In the movie, Belle and the Beast fall in love even though they are very different from each other. They looked passed their differences and what people would think of them.