In After Ever After, the beginning, Jeffrey had cancer. After his cancer, he sought out to have a normal eighth grade life but with still side effects of no more cancer. He wasn't doing good in school. He was barely even focusing on himself. He would space out a lot. Then, Jeffrey met Lindsey. They hit it off, began dating, but she was just another distraction to his schoolwork. He wasn’t concentrating, he would skip studying just to see her, he wasn’t doing the things he needed in order to pass eighth grade. He was focused on Lindsey, and Tad. He was focused on the important things in life but not the important things that’ll actually help him create another life.
In the article, “More children than thought got cancer from Fukushima disaster, study says”, it talks about how radiation is in the air due to a large wave and all these children are becoming infected with the thyroid cancer. This connects with After Ever After by kids rarely having chronic myeloid cancer (CML); that’s what Tad had gotten. Thyroid cancer and CML is rare in children. In the article it says, “The Fukushima nuclear power plant in Japan was destroyed by a large wave in 2011. Radioactive material was released into the air and soil.” This is the only reason as to why so many kids have thyroid cancer in the article while in the book, my group does not know how Tad had gotten CML or cancer again in general. Thyroid and Myeloid is basically the same thing. CML is a slowly progressing and uncommon type of blood cells that start at the bone marrow. Thyroid is when cells grow abnormally in the thyroid gland. They both include cells somewhere that causes damage.
In my book, Tad has cancer again, CML. It is rare in kids and mostly rare in kids who've survived cancer. It is only cured with a bone marrow transplant and Gleevec - he may possibly take it for his entire treatment and/or after. Also, radiation from his past treatments may have caused it or him being inactive with his health. In the article it says, “Thyroid cancer among children is definitely linked to radiation, the study said. If treated, thyroid cancer is rarely deadly. However, patients have to take medicine for the rest of their lives.” - just like Tad. But now, he's gone.
The way they both, article and book, transfer the same information is how they talk about a specific cancer caused by radiation. They include separate ways because in the article it is caused by wave. In the book, cancer has been brought back due to whatever had happened to Tad. It is almost the same information just said differently.
"More children than thought got cancer from Fukushima disaster, study says." Newsela | More children than thought got cancer from Fukushima disaster, study says. N.p., n.d. Web. 12 May 2017.
Sonnenblick, Jordan, and Marijka Kostiw. After ever after. New York: Scholastic, 2014. Print.
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