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