Hazel is the main character and narrator
Hazel is a dynamic character in the book. She starts off feeling helpless and she doesn't see the point in going out and making friends, or having any piece of social life for that matter. She just stays at home and lets the cancer overcome her. She spends her days reading books, more specifically "An Imperial Affliction" by Peter Van Houten, more than she should. As well as watching America's Top Model. As the story progresses Hazel meets Augustus and he starts to change her. He shows her that there is a life worth living with cancer, Augustus shows Hazel that she can't let cancer beat her and has to try to have a life outside of the house. Augustus teaches Hazel how to have fun and leave cancer behind.
hazel's eulogy to augustus
"My name is Hazel. Augustus Waters was the great star-crossed love of of my life. Ours was an epic love story, and I won't be able to get more than a sentence into it without disappearing into a puddle of tears. Gus knew. Gus knows. I will not tell you our love story, because like all real love stories, it will die with us. As it should. I'd hoped that he'd be eulogizing me, because there is no one I'd rather have. I can't talk about our love story, so I will talk about math. I am not a mathematician, but I know this. There is an infinite between 0 and 1. There's .1 and .12 and .112 and an infinite collection of others. Of course there is a bigger infinite set of numbers between 0 and 2, or between 0 and a million. Some infinities are bigger than other infinities. A writer we used to like taught us that. There are days, many days of them, when I resent the size of my unbounded set. I want more numbers than I'm likely to get, and God, I want more numbers for Augustus Waters than he got. But, Gus, my love, I cannot tell you how thankful I am for our little infinity. I wouldn't trade it for the world. You have me a forever within the numbered days, and I'm grateful."- Pages 259 and 260.
This song represents Hazel and her struggles with cancer. The song is saying that she is done with feeling down and she is ready to move on, and that nothing can hurt her anymore. She starts to feel this way when she meets Augustus, he shows her a life outside of the grief. "This time baby, I'll be be bulletproof." Another line that I feel is important in the song is
"I'll never let you sweep me off my feet." Hazel is pushing Augustus away because she doesn't want to hurt him, knowing that her days are limited with her cancer. Hazel is already worried about her parents life and relationship if she dies and doesn't want to add another person to the list.
"I'll never let you sweep me off my feet." Hazel is pushing Augustus away because she doesn't want to hurt him, knowing that her days are limited with her cancer. Hazel is already worried about her parents life and relationship if she dies and doesn't want to add another person to the list.
lyrics to bulletproof
Been there, done that, messed around
I’m having fun don’t put me down,
I’ll never let you sweep me off my feet,
I won’t let you in again, the messages I’ve tried to send,
my informations’ just not going in,
burnin’ bridges shore to shore, I’ll break away from something more,
I’m not to not to love until it’s cheap,
been there, done that, messed around,
I’m having fun don’t put me down,
I’ll never let you sweep me off my feet,
Chorus:
This time baby,
I’ll be,
Bulletproof x2
I won’t let you turn around,
and tell me now I’m much too proud,
to walk away from something when it’s dead,
do do do your dirty words come out to play when you are hurt,
there’s certain things that should be left unsaid,
tick tick tick tick on the watch and life’s too short for me to stop,
Oh baby, your time is running out,
I won’t let you turn around,
and tell me now I’m much too proud,
All you do is fill me up with doubt,
Chorus:
This time baby I’ll be bulletproof x2
This time baby I’ll be bulletproof x2
This time I'll be bulletproof x2
This time maybe I’ll be bulletproof x2
This time baby, this time baby, this baby, this time x2
I’m having fun don’t put me down,
I’ll never let you sweep me off my feet,
I won’t let you in again, the messages I’ve tried to send,
my informations’ just not going in,
burnin’ bridges shore to shore, I’ll break away from something more,
I’m not to not to love until it’s cheap,
been there, done that, messed around,
I’m having fun don’t put me down,
I’ll never let you sweep me off my feet,
Chorus:
This time baby,
I’ll be,
Bulletproof x2
I won’t let you turn around,
and tell me now I’m much too proud,
to walk away from something when it’s dead,
do do do your dirty words come out to play when you are hurt,
there’s certain things that should be left unsaid,
tick tick tick tick on the watch and life’s too short for me to stop,
Oh baby, your time is running out,
I won’t let you turn around,
and tell me now I’m much too proud,
All you do is fill me up with doubt,
Chorus:
This time baby I’ll be bulletproof x2
This time baby I’ll be bulletproof x2
This time I'll be bulletproof x2
This time maybe I’ll be bulletproof x2
This time baby, this time baby, this baby, this time x2