![]() ![]() Hazel makes two comparisons here: one with a bird's nest, which is a common comparison but a very different image than hair and one to a dementia patient, which, as a chronic illness, hits her very close to home. "My hair looked like a bird's nest my shuffling gait like a dementia patient's" (Simile) (p.108) Hazel watches Isaac cope with his girlfriend's dumping him just before his eye operation - she watches him calmly but this foreshadows her own feelings and coping with Augustus's death. Green makes an effort to include deep imagery of sadness throughout the book and through the feelings and actions of different characters. ".the tears not like tears so much as a quiet metronome - steady, endless" (Simile) (p.60) Rather than seeing his life as a downward spiral, he somewhat sarcastically creates imagery of his life going up and up. "I'm on a roller coaster that only goes up" (Metaphor) (p.11)Īugustus stays chipper about his diagnosis, both when he seems to be cancer free and when he relapses, by repeating this metaphorical phrase. ![]() This is further physicalized in Isaac's glasses which, compensating for his failing eyesight, draw even more attention to his fake eye (and real eye) as if it encompasses his whole being. Like Hazel's oxygen tank drawing stares at the airport, corrections for people's illnesses often draw even more attention to them. Buy Study Guide ".preternaturally huge, like his whole head was basically just his fake eye and this real eye staring at you" (Simile) (p.6) ![]()
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