"I didn’t want to take the elevator because taking the elevator is a Last Days kind of activity at Support Group, so I took the stairs." -Hazel GraceChapter 1.
"It was fourteen steps. I kept thinking about the people behind me—they were mostly adults speaking a variety of languages—and feeling embarrassed or whatever, feeling like a ghost that both comforts and haunts, but finally I made it up, and then I was in an eerily empty room, leaning against the wall, my brain telling my lungs it’s okay it’s okay calm down it’s okay and my lungs telling my brain oh, God, we’re dying here."
Chapter 12.
"Inside, I contemplated taking the stairs but decided to wait for the ancient creaking elevator."
Chapter 20.
After reading Chapter 20, I remembered what Hazel Grace had said about elevators in Chapter 1 and it made me realise that throughout the book, her illness was becoming worse. During the first chapters, she took the stairs and although there wasn't a complaint made by her, I can imagine that she must have struggled up those stairs especially since she had oxygen tank trailing behind her. The fact that towards the end of the book, she mentions herself too tired to climb stairs and deciding to take the elevator or if she did take the stairs, she felt like she couldn't breathe, it made me realise that she although she never mentions feeling worse, her health is obviously getting worse the fact that she is accepting the fact that she should use the elevator although she considers it's what you do before you die.
After reading Chapter 20, I remembered what Hazel Grace had said about elevators in Chapter 1 and it made me realise that throughout the book, her illness was becoming worse. During the first chapters, she took the stairs and although there wasn't a complaint made by her, I can imagine that she must have struggled up those stairs especially since she had oxygen tank trailing behind her. The fact that towards the end of the book, she mentions herself too tired to climb stairs and deciding to take the elevator or if she did take the stairs, she felt like she couldn't breathe, it made me realise that she although she never mentions feeling worse, her health is obviously getting worse the fact that she is accepting the fact that she should use the elevator although she considers it's what you do before you die.
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