Fault In Our Stars Hardships

In The Fault in Our Stars by John Green, Hazel Grace Lancaster is diagnosed with terminal cancer at the very early age of only 13 years old. Hazel identifies herself as the

Humans lives are always being impacted by others. Everyone leaves a mark on the world. The Fault in Our Stars, written by John Green, takes place in Indianapolis and in Amsterdam during the early years of the twenty-first century. The book is about Hazel, a seventeen year old, who has a life full of cancer. She meets Augustus Waters in Support Group and her life completely changes. Augustus and Hazel fall deeply in love with each other throughout the story and adventure to Amsterdam. People endure many hardships throughout the book.(one sentence here that hints at scars or pain). (Augustus says,) “The marks humans leave are so often scars. How do people receive “scars” throughout the book? People receives “scars” throughout The Fault in Our Stars, because Augustus impacts Hazel, Caroline affects Hazel, and Hazel’s mom changes Hazel.

Despite the adversity they face, the characters in The Fault in Our Stars identity lies within their inner selves, and is not defined by societal expectations. Hazel expresses her frustration with the lesser standard that is expected of cancer patients, saying “According to Maslow, I was…unable to feel secure in my health and therefore unable to reach for love and respect and art…which is utter horseshit: The urge to make art or contemplate philosophy does not go away when you are sick” (Green 213). According to society, cancer patients, and those who are not “secure in their health” are restricted from experiencing life at its fullest. The outside world sees Hazel in singular terms, as “a cancer kid”, unable to reach for greatness;

No matter how old you are, you might know what It feels like to lose a loved one. Hazel Grace has never been anything but terminal, until she meets Augustus Waters, and that’s when her story is about to be completely rewritten. The novel is an emotional roller coaster dealing with first loves, terminal illnesses, secrets, passion and trust. In the novel, The Fault In Our Stars, Hazel Grace must go through what any person with a terminal disease must go through and beyond that: overcoming a terminal disease, love, and fear.

For this project, I decided to read “The Fault in Our Stars,” a novel written by John Green. This book is about 16 year old Hazel Grace, who is diagnosed with thyroid cancer. She attends weekly Cancer Support Group, where she meets Augustus Waters, a “very intelligent and hot” boy who is currently in remission. They both take a liking for each other, their relationship growing and developing throughout the book as they fight cancer together. Along the way, Hazel learns many important lessons about life.

The two teens come from very different backgrounds, but that doesn't stop them from slowly falling in love. Both Park, and Eleanor, face through their hardships with each others help. They are always there to reassure each other that everything will be okay. The plot had some moments when everything was expected. It was very cliché at points, for example, Park, being surrounded by his "popular" friends, was rude to Eleanor, (Page 9) but eventually fell in love with her (Page 114). Although it was expected, most of the time, Eleanor and Park was a conventional young adult novel about love, hope, and growth.

The book The Fault In Our Stars by John Green is about a teenage girl named Hazel who has had a type of lung cancer since she was thirteen years old. Hazel had always felt pain throughout her life, weather it was emotional or physical pain because of her cancer, or losing important things to her. After Hazel met Augustus though, her thoughts about life began to change. In this book, the author used a lot of figurative language and some symbolism to show the reader exactly how the Hazel and other characters were feeling, so the reader could almost feel what the character was feeling.

Augustus also says “that’s the thing about pain [...] it demands to be felt” (Green, 63). The author must be a sad person because I could emotionally feel how the characters were feeling, and it appears as if Green provides a lot of insight through Augustus’ perspective about pain and sadness. I was able to connect this story to a movie, My Sister’s Keeper. Hazel is like the character Anna in the movie because they were both affected directly by the illness that is cancer. In Anna’s case, her parents’ conceived her because her older sister had cancer and Anna was to donate her organs. Hazel on the other hand, is a recipient of cancer.

Having a family to rely on and be supported by is said to be the most important thing to have in life. No matter where you go, you should have loving family members who will support and help you without question, if they are ever needed to. In the novel, The Fault in our Stars, the theme of having loved ones and being close to family members is heavily leaned on through the actions of illnesses and loss. The novel shows the theme through the actions of Hazel, Augustus, and their parents. As expected, each character has their own style of expressing their emotions, feelings, and thoughts in their dark times.

In John Green’s The Fault in Our Stars, Hazel, Augustus, and Peter Van Houten say this important statement to the audience multiple times throughout the novel. Implying the true meaning behind this statement by the author, this implies the repetition of the same statement throughout the novel is an example of a major theme. In fact, this statement states the overall major theme of the novel. All the characters realize that people cannot always accomplish their desires despite them being cancer-stricken young children. Even if they are surrounded by constant support, this is also a phrase of the acceptance of their current situation, specifically the main issue in this novel, cancer, and their acceptance on the harsh reality that many children

The novel begins when Hazel is going to a cancer support group because her mother thinks she is depressed. During the support group meeting, she meets a handsome boy named Augustus Waters who suffered from osteosarcoma, a bone cancer, although is also is

The Fault in Our Stars depicts the intertwining lives of two teenagers who suffer from cancer, Hazel Grace Lancaster and Augustus Waters, or Gus. Love blossoms between the two teenagers and deepens as the story progresses, as seen through their touching relationship with each other.

In the novel, “The Fault in Our Stars” has helped me in many ways like becoming more open minded about many things that I wasn’t exposed to before. The literary book, “The Fault in Our Stars” gives us an insight into two young teenagers' lives that have been diagnosed with cancer, but still live their lives to the fullest even though they have a limited amount of time. “You gave me a forever within the numbered of days, and I’m grateful” (260). John Green, through the characters of his book, infers that even if you have the shortest life, you can still create a meaningful one which would consist of care, love, and many other things that fulfill you or another

Cancer is a big issue in society, the total number of teen cancer cases are about 2,286 cases with a survival rate of 84% depending on the type of cancer (Sie 1). A bunch of people are fighting cancer, and they are persevering through it, teens have to fight through this because they are in the middle of school, and they have their own dramas, and issues, and they learn to fight through cancer. Even though we might face daily struggles that might include serious or maybe death-like situations, we can learn to fight through whatever is bringing us down and we can overcome things if we believe we can. The theme of perseverance is shown throughout the book, The Fault In Our Stars because the two main characters both battle cancer, and they leave their cancer behind them and they live their lives to the fullest.

The two main places that involve the two main characters, Hazel and Gus, were Amsterdam and Indianapolis. Hazel was scared that she will one day hurt the ones who love her when she would one day die from her lung cancer. When Hazel had to go to the emergency room that one time because of fluids in her lungs, Augustus was scared Hazel might die. Then as we learn towards the end of the novel, Hazel ends up being scared of Augustus dying when his cancer came back. Hazel was angry when Augustus died besides being very upset. They were disappointed and Hazel got angry when they saw who Peter Van Houten really was. They both felt like they were cancer victims, but they made the best of it with each other by going to Amsterdam and other events. They had many safe times such as when they were at the Support Group and Amsterdam because there were no health related emergencies and they had a good time together. The dangerous times is when Hazel had to go to the emergency room due to fluids in her lungs and when Augustus got his cancer back.