This book…. I swear, I don’t know what to do with it
anymore. I’m still reading it bit by bit so I don’t overload my heart with more
than it can handle, whether it be joy or pain. Yet, some of parts of this book captivates
me enough to push me forward in reading even more of this book. With the
continuation of humor used, as a teenager about their age this just makes the
book even more interesting as a whole.
Though this is not a reason for my blog post today, today I want
to touch on vocabulary. Sorry if it sounds a bit too formal, but the use of
vocabulary in this book plays a big role for me. “Headline?” he asked. “Swing
Set Needs Home,” I said. “Desperately Lonely Swing Needs Loving Home,” he said.
“Lonely, Vaguely Pedophilic Swing Set Seeks the Butts of Children,” I said
(Green, 123).” This conversation between Hazel and Augustus over the selling of
a swing set, and with each word said it sounds more crazy and humorous. Making the
swing house like if it was a person, but it’s not.
With words and speaking, a lot can be expressed, like other
languages, or intelligence, or even characteristics of the person, like occupation,
or where they are from. But in the form of a book, we can’t hear there, tone,
voice, or accent. So we depend on the vocabulary used to describe this person.
The dialogue and vocabulary in this book makes the characters feel real to me,
like I know them as my own friends because they actually talk like my friends.
The Barnes and Nobles page for this novel.
GoodReads page containing quotes from this book.
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