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The Fault In Our Stars Week 4 Discussion
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Discussion Questions:
Explain what a "last good day" is in the context of our characters' lives.
Megan M. The "last good day" means the last day of any worries of their lives.
ReplyDeleteWhen some one is dying of cancer their body is not their own. Cancer is shutting down everything, they do not feel well and they do not function. Augustus's last good day is the last day he was functional and "normal" he could spend time with his friends and say goodbye to them.
ReplyDeleteA last good day is the final day of freedom, really, before the cancer takes you down for the horrible, wild, ride of being handicapped, sickness of greater magnitude, and overall will to live. In other words, the day you know is coming, but not when, and most of your freedoms are taken away, not including love, that, that stays with you till your last dying breath. And who knows, maybe carries on into oblivion, after death.
ReplyDelete*edit* ...and TAKING THE overall will to live.
DeleteA last good day in the life of our characters is not known or realized until later. Augustus' last good day is when he got to say goodbye to friends and family. It was when he was "normal".
ReplyDeleteAccording to Hazel, and this holds true for the world outside the book as well, living with cancer means that you have good days and bad. The good days are those when your pain, and other side-effects of cancer, are minimal and you feel and act almost healthy again. The bad days are those when the pain, etc., are more present and debilitating. The Good Days (capital G, capital D) for Hazel and Augustus started to happen when the end was near. A Good Day is the same as a good day before, but fewer and farther between. The Last Good Day is the inexplicable burst of feeling healthy and competent, usually just a few days before the end. You have many good days, and a few Good Days, but only one Last Good Day.
ReplyDeleteLike Hazel (and Nicole above me) said, the Last part of the Gus's Last Good Day was tacked on later, after it became clear that he was going to die shortly. I imagine that makes all the Good Days (that start to spread out and deplete) very cautiously happy days. Yeah, Good Days feel great, but how many more of them can we get? I'm amazed at the positivity and presence that Gus, Hazel, and Isaac display - they know that Gus is dying (and dying soon), but they are able to put that out of their minds and simply have a Good Day.
The last good day is literally that. A day when you feel most alive in spite of the sickness. This is hard to identify because you don't know you have had a last good day until you become more sick after the fact. This event is true of anyone who is about to die, not just cancer patients. I saw it in my grandmother. Her last good day was a day when she was able to talk to me through body language and some writing. The day after that she was on the slope that turned her into my guardian angel.
ReplyDeleteThe "Last Good Day" is the last time a terminal patient has that is most meaningful to them. It is not just about feeling good physically, but also mentally. In a sense, it is how the terminal patient deals with the impending death and it provides closure on their lives.
ReplyDelete“A good day” can mean different things to everyone, but when it comes to someone with cancer a good day is when the pain isn’t unbearable. In the story, Hazel had days that she didn’t even want to get out of bed and then other days she’d push herself to do things like climb the stairs at the museum or go shopping. While Hazel and Augustus were in Amsterdam they had many good days. In Amsterdam they were able to clear their minds, relax, and feel as normal as possible. Amsterdam gave them both a chance to experience something they may never make it to, adulthood. Cancer patients never know when their good and bad days will happen, so a lot of the time their plans have to be last minute or get canceled. They never know how good their day really was until they start to get sicker.
ReplyDeleteThe "last good day" is the last day of someone's life that the person is functional. It's before the the disease takes them on the very quick downward spiral to their death beds. The last day they still have some personality left.
ReplyDeleteRheanne B.
ReplyDeleteThe"last good day" is the last day of someone's life that they are able to be functional.The "last good day" is when they end up on their death bed. Because it is the last day of their life it is their last day of worrying about their life.
The last good day is the final time of full consciousness. It is the last time you are completely in control. It's all downhill from there.
ReplyDeleteLily H. Hazel says that for people who have cancer, death is a constant threat. The last good day is a day that things are going good. It could always be the last day that things are good.
ReplyDeleteThe “last good day” is the day that someone suffering from cancer is still functional. It’s when they can still enjoy their life before cancer starts to rapidly shut down their body. To Augustus, it was the day before he began to become dysfunctional, before he began to really die. It was the last day he got to enjoy with Hazel before he became a bedridden, incoherent, sickly mess. After that day, he was no longer Augustus, just a pilot for a body riddled with cancer.
ReplyDeleteAugustus drives on his own up to the gas station to get cigarettes because his parents took them away from him. Augustus decides to call Hazel and she comes to the gas station and wants to call 911 but Augustus doesn’t want her to. Augustus wants to do things on his own but he is throwing up all over himself. It’s really sad to see him helpless because he has no choice but to do nothing. Augustus is dying and the way he dies is heart breaking. Augustus’s father hugs Hazel and tells her he prays for her each day because she is what Augustus needed to keep going.
ReplyDeleteOn the kat good day then Agustus gets to say good bye to all of whom he cares about.
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ReplyDeleteThe last good day was the last day that Gus still felt alive and that hope was still possible. On the very next day, his accelerated journey towards death began!
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