Blog Post #2

         I am just starting to read the book Paper Towns. So far I'm on page 28 so I don't really have any knowledge of what does happen to Margo, but I do have some predictions.          
        Prediction : Margo is supposedly the adventurous one while Quentin is the one that observe from a far until something happens to Margo. Quentin is starts to receive clues from Margo. I have no clue what actually happens yet but I think that Margo is in some sort of trouble and she needs Quentin's help to save her. I believe that something is after her that wants to harm her. Once Quentin finds Margo, they both go back to having their old relationship that they cherished so long ago. 
        John Green, the author of this book, is a very good writer so I do expect a lot. I also can make some more predictions about how the book was written, not necessarily predictions about the story. Well for a first the names are usually unusual such as; Hazel (The Fault in our Stars), Alaska(Looking For Alaska), and what I soon discovered was Quentin (Paper Towns).I also expect the characters to communicate in a way that is different from how most people their age talk. I am very hopeful that this will be a very intriguing book for me to read and I hope that the mystery that John Green creates will keep me on my toes and that it will be something I won't expect at all.
                                                    John Green Information Article
 "John Green is the New York Times bestselling author of Looking for Alaska,An Abundance of Katherines, Paper Towns, and The Fault in Our Stars. He is also the coauthor, with David Levithan, of Will Grayson, Will Grayson. He was 2006 recipient of the Michael L. Printz Award, a 2009 Edgar Award winner, and has twice been a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. Green’s books have been published in more than a dozen languages." (Read more by clicking on the link above). 
                                       

    I'm writing about The Fault in our Stars for my first blog post. I'm going to talk to you about how the author develops Hazel throughout the story. In the beginning of the story hazel says, "My mother decided I was depressed, presumably because I rarely left the house, spent quite a lot of time in bed, read the same book over and over, ate infrequently, and devoted quite a bit of my abundant free time to thinking about death"(Green 3). Over the course of the text Hazel changes her perspective on many things.
    Once she encounters Augustus, the love of her life, Hazel starts to lose some of these habits such as reading the same book over and over, spending to much time in the house and etc. Augustus leads Hazel to live a better life with cancer. He changes her habit of reading the same book over and over by exchanging An Imperial Affliction for The Prince of the Dawn, both of their favorite books. Hazel slowly becomes addicted to this series and reads them all in a short amount of time.
    Augustus also changes some of her interactions with others. Augustus used his make a wish to fly to Amsterdam to meet their favorite author, Peter Van Houten, the both of them slowly begin to realize his true personality and Peter started as their favorite author and became the person they both hated the most. She expresses her new hatred through some strong choice words. She even yells at peter, "YOU PROMISED"(Green 194). As Hazel and Augustus develop throughout the story and become closer acquaintances they advance the theme; pain demands to be felt. Hazel throughout the story changes in so many ways because of Augustus and her opening her self up to feel discomfort.

                                                                  The Fault in our Stars Article

This article gives a brief summary of The Fault in our Stars and also a little bit of John Greens inspiration for the book.  

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