Fall From Grace

See the beautiful young girl on the left of this picture? That is Amanda Bynes, the nickelodeon star who got started from 1990's show, "All That" and continued her amazing career to "Easy A" in 2010, she was the ultimate role model for anyone watching her. Now look at the picture on the right. This is the Amanda Bynes of today, the drug addict, the alcoholic, the someone who has had a fair amount of plastic surgery and has been hospitalized for mental health issues (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amanda_Bynes ). When I was younger and even until today, she was one of my favourite actresses, and years ago, my biggest idol. I would always look forward to new shows and movies including her, but look at what a mess she is now. This is the ultimate example of the fall from grace. In my book, "The Fault In Our Stars", Hazel is a 16 year old girl battling with terminal cancer in her lungs. In this story Hazel and her friend Augustus get the experience of a lifetime, meeting Hazel's idol, the author of her favourite book of all time, Mr. Van Houten. But when they get there, things take an unexpected turn of events, Van Houten has become a alcoholic with memory issues, he doesn't ever remember inviting them. He says extremely disrespectful things to Hazel, involving rude and hurtful comments on her disease. How had this happened to such and incredible author? Why had he become like this? Some would ask the exact same questions about Amanda Bynes. I feel these two circumstances are very related. Both of these sad stories show how someone who was held high in our mind let themselves go for who knows why. One of my greatest role models has turned into this person on the right, just like Van Houten turned into the person Hazel met in Amsterdam.

http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=5844948    I chose this picture of a rose that is dead or dying to represent how some things start off so beautiful and pure, but then they start to die. Even though Van Houten and Amanda Bynes are still living, I am trying to show how the person who was originally inside of them is dying. They are no longer beautiful and pure on the inside or out, they have simply turned into dying roses because of the people they are becoming. Not only the outside is damaged, but the inside too. When you look at them, there would be nothing left of the rose, simply something lifeless. Even though there is some colour left, it would be almost impossible to get back.