Hey,
I've been thinking of writing something for a while now, but I just couldn't figure out 'what' to write. A few days back, someone I know quoted Augustus Waters from The Fault In Our Stars saying, "I'm on a roller coaster that only goes up." That made me think about the irony of the statement.
Augustus Waters was dying, the cancer cells were multiplying at a fast rate, and about the scan, as he said, "it lit up like a Christmas tree." So, if the roller coaster he talks about could be 'cancer', the roller coaster was certainly only going up, and unfortunately wouldn't descend.
Whereas, when we read the book (or watch the movie), we take it that the metaphor he's using i.e. the roller coaster, is 'life'. We think that he's optimistic and now he's lost the touch of cancer he had and now his life is good. It's kinda sad how wrong we turn out to be. Don't you think? #rhetorical question
(I should probably start ending all my blog posts with a rhetorical question.)
Here's a virtual chocolate for you, for reading my blogpost. (; *hands out chocolate*
Love,
Punya
I've been thinking of writing something for a while now, but I just couldn't figure out 'what' to write. A few days back, someone I know quoted Augustus Waters from The Fault In Our Stars saying, "I'm on a roller coaster that only goes up." That made me think about the irony of the statement.
Augustus Waters was dying, the cancer cells were multiplying at a fast rate, and about the scan, as he said, "it lit up like a Christmas tree." So, if the roller coaster he talks about could be 'cancer', the roller coaster was certainly only going up, and unfortunately wouldn't descend.
Whereas, when we read the book (or watch the movie), we take it that the metaphor he's using i.e. the roller coaster, is 'life'. We think that he's optimistic and now he's lost the touch of cancer he had and now his life is good. It's kinda sad how wrong we turn out to be. Don't you think? #rhetorical question
(I should probably start ending all my blog posts with a rhetorical question.)
Here's a virtual chocolate for you, for reading my blogpost. (; *hands out chocolate*
Love,
Punya
WOW.
ReplyDeleteThat's deep!
Thanks to the person who made me think about it. (;
DeleteTbh, I hate TFIOS :P
ReplyDeleteBut this was a nice blogpost indeed! *raises thumb*
And btw, try handing out 'Potatoes' instead of Virtual Chocolates at the end. Sounds funny on the internet, trust me. :P
Batman.
Okay, you'll get a potato if you read the next blogpost. :P
DeleteAnd, thanks.
Now about the most important matter : How can you hate TFIOS?!?! How can ANYONE hate TFIOS?!?!?
Okay, atleast tell me the reasons why you hate this heartbreaking story.
I enjoyed TFIOS as a story, but I didn't find the end to be very sad, mainly because I already knew what was going to happen. I found John Green's writing style hard to adjust to, I didn't feel like it was very emotional, but maybe thats just me?
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