February 2012
42 posts
“The good times and the bad times both will pass. It will pass. It will get easier. But the fact that it will get easier does not mean that it doesn’t hurt now. And when people try to minimize your pain they are doing you a disservice. And when you try to minimize your own pain you’re doing yourself a disservice. Don’t do that. The truth is that it hurts because it’s real. It hurts because it mattered. And that’s an important thing to acknowledge to yourself. But that doesn’t mean that it won’t end, that it won’t get better. Because it will.”
—John Green (via black-wolves)
50 Alternatives to the Book Report →
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- Character Astrology Signs
- Heroes and Superheros
- Create a Childhood for a character
- Critique from the point of view of a specific organization
- Social workers report
- College application
- School counselor’s recommendation letter
- Talk show invitation
- Radio exchange
- Movie recommendations
- Create a home page
- Chat room conversations
- E-mail directory
- Title acrostic
- Cartoon squares
- Word collage
- Yearbook entries
- Letter exchange
- Awards
- Talk show on issues in the novel
- Dream vacation
- Scrapbook
- Photos or magazine pictures
- Music
- Poetry
- Twenty questions
- File a complaint
- Tangible or intangible gifts
- Talk to the author
- Point of view column
- Character monologues
- Make up a word test for the novel
- Answering machine message
- Found poems
- Name analysis
- A character’s fears
- Current events
- Advertisements
- A pamphlet
- Draw a scene
- New acquaintances
- Book choices for character
- Community resources for characters
- Family history
- Detective work
- The dating game
- Create a character’s room
- CD collection
- Photo album
- A character alphabet
Name meanings in "The Hunger Games" →
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This list is really great and even I learned a few things, but it left out a few key items for me:
STOP HERE! RIGHT NOW! SPOILERISH ABOUT CHARACTERS.
- Lavinia: Titus Andronicus? Avox? C’mon.
- Coriolanus: Another Shakespeare reference, and this is Snow’s middle name. Vengeful ruler? Assassinated?
- Seneca: Okay, the site mentions it, but I think more could be mentioned as Seneca was a playwright, famous for writing a version of Medea (vengeful women? anyone?) Also, he committed suicide after being disgraced.
- Plutarch: ”Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans” is considered the base text for Shakespeare’s work, and I think the name and this lends itself more to Plutarch’s role as a propaganda/story-creator.
“The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of the mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one.”
—J.D Salinger, The Catcher In The Rye (via thefaultinourquotes)
“You don’t get to choose if you get hurt in this world, old man, but you do have some say in who hurts you.”
—John Green in The Fault in Our Stars (via meggannn)
something i was talking to someone about that i thought i would share
things are temporary. there are varying degrees of temporariness, but as a universal rule, all things begin and end
that’s why you can’t let bad things consume you
and it’s why good things are so extraordinarily special
John Green's tumblr: Only if You've Read The Fault in Our Stars... →
fishingboatproceeds.tumblr.com
I’ve started a blog for people who’ve finished my new book The Fault in Our Stars. It’s a place where I can answer (some of) your questions and hopefully if I figure out comments you can participate in the discussion. I don’t even know if this will work, but I’m hopeful?
Pain is like fabric: The stronger it is, the more it's worth.
The Fault in Our Stars, pg. 284
“A brief but infinite forever”
—The Fault in Our Stars | John Green (via thefaultinourquotes)
“Love it just a shout in the void.”
—The Fault in Our Stars | John Green (p. 153)
“You gave me a forever within our numbered days”
—The Fault in Our Stars | John Green (via thefaultinourquotes)
“We stared at the house for a while. The weird thing about houses is that they almost always look like nothing is happening inside of them, even though they contain most of our lives. I wondered if that was sort of the point of architecture.”
—The Fault in Our Stars | John Green (p. 139)
Listen
John Green says something.
(From the TFiOS audiobook. No spoilers.)
I was hoping someone was gonna post this!
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“As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.”
—Hazel; John Green’s The Fault in Our Stars (via babyraptorsyay)
