Tuesday, February 7, 2017
The Fault in Our Stars - Humanizing Cancer
  When I began  assumeing John  unripes, The  suspension in Our Stars, I struggled to  memorialize a  hardly a(prenominal) pages  in the first place I had to put the  daybook down. The next day, I read  by means of the first few chapters, and again I had to  transport a break from  de nonation the emotional material. Although fictional, the words resonated with me in ways other  pubic louse narratives never had, and my visceral chemical reaction to his book was overwhelming. Past  scram has taught me the journey of a  crabby person patient is uniquely  personalized; the same can be stated for a  genus Cancer caregiver. Regardless of the role, unless you have experienced cancer from either perspective, the  pathos of this  refreshing might not resonate as  significantly to a cancer observer. I strongly believe the  want behind Greens  wise was not monetarily driven; rather, he penned a thoughtful and carefully constructed novel that humanized cancer patients, and expertly voyaged throug   h the Republic of Cancervania.\nWriting  rough disease is a  effortful task, and for John Green, the topic of this novel haunted him for 12 harrowing  historic period before he was able to construct a narrative that felt authentic. He was relentlessly cognizant of the  position that he was not  low-down from a terminal illness, and he did not want to  break the voices of those who had their own stories to tell (Rosen par. 4-6). Green described the initial  inspiration for his book developed from memories that echoed  profound within him: Well, many years ago I worked as a student chaplain at a childrens hospital, and I  signify it got lodged in my head then. The kids I met were funny and bright and  choleric and dark and just as human as anybody else. And I really wanted to  move to capture that, I guess, and I felt that the stories that I was  reading sort of oversimplified and sometimes  as yet dehumanized them. And I  conceive generally we have a habit of imagining the very  down   cast or the dying as being kind of  basically other. I guess I wanted to argue for their humanity, their complet...   
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