if you found out that you had one week left to live, what would you do?

If you found out that you had ONE WEEK left to live, what would you do?

*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 CancerThyroid 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

OsteosarcomaOsteosarcoma*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.

1.anomaly: a deviation from the common rule, type, arrangement

2.bacchanalia: a drunken feast; orgy3.bereft: to deprive and make desolate,

especially by death4.calibrate: to plan or devise something

carefully so as to have a precise use, application, appeal

5.coterie: a group of people who associate closely, an exclusive group; clique

1.deferential: showing deference

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, unalterable2.Insipid: without distinctive,

interesting, or stimulating qualities3.Lascivious: inclined to lustfulness;

wanton; lewd4.Malevolent: evil, harmful, injurious5.Misnomer: a misapplied or

inappropriate name or designation

1. Nihilism: nothingness or nonexistence... an extreme form of skepticism: the denial of all real existence or possibility of objective basis for truth

2. Ontological: [ly] of or pertaining to ontology: the branch of metaphysics that studies the nature of existence or being as such

3. Palliative: serving to relieve or lessen without curing, mitigate, alleviate

4. Sobriquet: a nickname

5. 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

6. Vernacular: native or indigenous language, language of people opposed to literary language