Hazel shut herself from the outside world. She rarely left her house, spent quite a lot of time in bed, read the same book over and over, ate infrequently, and devoted quite a bit of her abundant free time thinking about death. Hazel’s parents were there every step of the way but she didn’t want them in her life. She was scared that when she died, she would hurt them too much. She had a lot of friends in school. After she got cancer, she lost contact with most of them. Kaitlyn, one of her only friends, Hazel felt a certain unbridgeable distance between them. She thought her school friends wanted to help her through her cancer, but they eventually found out they couldn’t. Hazel let the Cancer take over her life. She let her friends slip away and she is slowly losing her parents.
Why do you think it is important to have good friends around you?
It is important to have good friends around you because you always need someone to talk to and if you cant go to a parent or teacher you still have a friend.
ReplyDeleteGiven Hazel's circumstances, I feel its very important to have good friends around you. Given that she has cancer she would need a strong support system to help her. Especially if maybe friends can deliver support a lot differently than parents could. Having multiple close friends gives you lots of opportunities to find advice, comfort and confidence.
ReplyDeleteYes I do think it is important to have have good friends around you, even if its just one good friend. As long as you have someone that you can talk to,share things with, and know that they will be there for you, I think that this is okay. But in Hazel's situation, she has cancer. She needs friends and people that love her, more than ever right now. The comfort of knowing that you are not alone, and there are people that actually care about you is a good feeling! I am sure Hazel has a lot of questions going through her mind, and the more people she has supporting her, the more answers she can get.
ReplyDeleteI think that it is important to have good friends around you because you always need someone to talk to, if you can't talk to your parents then you should at least be able to talk to one of your good friends. Some people need support when they aren't in a good state of mind and they need advice that can help them trough what they are going through.
ReplyDeleteIt is important to have good friends around us because our life would not be the same without friends. They can stop us from doing stupid things or do stupid things with us. Friends are as important as family, they keep us alive. Its important to have a friend we can trust and we talk and spend time because they can teach us important things we dont learn from family.
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