Reflective Essay On The Fault In Our Stars

They do not keep in secret their "insufficiency" and boldly show them to each other, because it is hard to surprise a cancer patient. In addition, Hazel tries to ensure Augustus that she understands him and does not consider their illnesses to be embarrassing. When she "found him mumbling in a language of his own creation"(Green, 239), the girl does not run away or stop all contact, she finds ways to help him and persuades that "[she has] pissed the bad ... It's no big deal". Hazel tries to not notice Augustus' transformations from a muscular hot guy to a weak boy and keeps treating him as a normal healthy person. Therefore, Augustus and Hazel are honest with each other, they do not keep secrets and share their cancer's

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.

People with cancer often begin to define themselves based on their experience with their illness, this self-definition through one’s cancer is one that the characters fear in John Green’s The Fault in Our Stars. The novel shows how the characters strive to discover their identities, but despite that are still identified by their illness. The novel also makes the argument that young people with cancer are not any more virtuous or different than other kids rather, they are just normal kids living with an illness. Augustus wants to be remembered and also be more than just a boy who battled cancer, but despite his efforts is still identified by his illness.

In conclusion, John Green uses the characters of Hazel and Augustus to portray the theme of ‘the necessity of suffering’. This novel has changed my perspective of terminal illnesses. Before reading the novel, I was not quite away of what it was like to live with an illness as severe as cancer, yet still carrying on with a normal lifestyle. Also, I was able to achieve insight about society’s view about cancer patients. Since Green has not ended the novel stating whether Hazel lives or dies, he stated in an interview that it was up to the readers to create Hazel’s ending with their imagination. I predict that Hazel will pass away. Her cancer was very severe and there were hints about Hazel becoming weaker. I would definitely recommend this book as it was an enjoyable, yet heart

“The marks humans leave are too often scars,” Augustus says. This means that we try to leave something behind to be remembered, too often though, it is scars. We want to be remembered, but whenever we get close to someone we leave a mark on them. Augustus Waters wants to be remembered as someone great and has made a mark on many people. Hazel Grace on the other hand has very few friends. Her goal is to keep the casualties to a minimum. She knows that one day the cancer is going to win and she doesn't want a lot of people to be there when the inevitable happens. Hazel and Gus's relationship has a couple of pauses due to Hazel not wanting to leave a mark on Gus that will later become a scar. Unfortunately, these scars come

In The Fault in Our Star, Hazel is obsessed with a novel called An Imperial Affliction. An Imperial Affliction plays an important role in the novel and is symbolic in various ways, such as how it relates to Hazel’s own life. An Imperial Affliction is about a young girl named Anna, who has a rare type of blood cancer. The book ends mid-sentence because either Anna is too sick to write anymore or because she died. An Imperial Affliction plays an essential position in the novel and its plot. It is similar to Hazel’s life and Hazel, herself, is passionate about it and desires to know the ending to it. John Green, the author of The Fault in Our Stars, puts a metanovel in the book for several reasons. All in all, An Imperial Affliction plays a major role in the book, relates to Hazel’s life in numerous ways, and the author had countless reasons to place it within the book.

Augustus and Hazel keep each other hoping for the best in their tragic lives and they make each other forget they are set back by having cancer. After him and Hazel first meet sheasks him why the hell he is smoking a cigarette because she knows that cigarettes cause cancer. He responds and says, “ You put the killing thing right between your teeth, but you don’t give it the power to do the killing.” (p.63). This is one of the many things Augustus does to make his diagnoses of cancer seem as little as possible and makes him think that he has some control of his life. Augustus also makes Hazel like her life for brief moments. When Hazel was with Augustus talking about how she forgets having cancer. She described this moment with him as, “ The space around us evaporated, and for a weird moment I really liked my body; this cancer-ruined thing I’d spent years dragging around suddenly seemed worth the struggle worth the chest tubes and the PICC lines and the ceaseless bodily betrayal of the tumors.” (p.203). This highlights how their relationship

Augustus is Hazel's boyfriend. Shown as a charming, witty, active young man, Gus over plans Dutch themed picnics for Hazel and himself, and saves digital children from their deaths, sacrificing himself. One of Augustus's main gripes about dying is living a more meaningful life; one that will be viewed on with honor and respect. He is so concerned about this that even Hazel considers faking an act of helplessness for him to make him sastified. However, Augustus has failed to realize the fact that he has lived a more meaningful life. This shows that he can be somewhat ignorant of reality and is an overachiever. Even after he has changed Hazel for good, he still undergoes the feeling of insecurity in the meaning of his life.

Hazel Lancaster meets Augustus Waters at support group and later they fall in love. They go on a trip to Amsterdam where they connect even more than they ever have before.(Green) By meeting Augustus, Hazel realizes she has a good life and maybe a better future. Hazel learns that the love of her life is dying, she wants to make every moment matter. Hazel finds out Augustus is dying. She wants to make every last moment he has the best time of his life. Augustus gets out in a wheelchair but Hazel still tries to make him happy.(Green) Hazel is crushed to learn that the person she loved most is spending his last moments in a wheelchair, but still tries to make him happy. Augustus happiest moment is meeting Hazel and knowing this she thinks about her life. Before Augustus dies Hazel realizes that the happiest moment in his life is meeting her and being able to spend his last moments with her, and now that Augustus is gone Hazel has a new appreciation for life.(Green) The only man she ever loved is gone and she now has a new appreciation for life and is going to make the most of it.Making someone’s last moments the best time of their life helps them live life to the fullest so that they experienced life in a very unique and positive

- Hazel gets a call from Augustus at night and she lets him know the bad news

2.) Standiford uses multiple quotes and notes significant works that the authors have published. Paragraph three, on page 785, Standiford discusses the author of The Fault in our Stars, John Green,” John Green, author of Looking for Alaska and Paper Towns, and it is written in his signature tone…sweet, philosophical, and funny.” She also quoted Hazel Lancaster, from Green’s story, “she considers this headline…:’Lonely, Vaguely Pedophilic Swing Set Seeks the Butts of Children.’”

The last contradicting side of love that the story showed is that love can sometimes be beneficial yet harmful. Love was very beneficial to the character in such way that Augustus made Hazel feel loved and important. Hazel was happy with Augustus because she was experiencing some things for the first time. It was because of love that Hazel felt those things which made love beneficial to Hazel. However, love was also harmful to the character because ever since Augustus died, Hazel was already harming herself in such ways that she no longer eats and that is very harmful to her physical health since her body needs food in order to function well. Another thing is that she locks herself in her room and cries because she remembers clearly everything

In The fault In Our Stars, by John Green, Hazel Grace Lancaster, is dealing with pain both mentally and emotionally.(How is she dealing with pain/what pain/who is helping her (briefly)). Green portrays that pain is necessary in order to(….).

Interestingly, Augustus got in contact with a charity that gives cancer kids a wish. Augustus decided to use his for the two of them to go on a trip to Amsterdam to meet Peter and Lidewij. In the midst of this, Hazel painfully experiences her lungs filling up with fluid causing her to be rushed to the hospital. She lives, however her personal doctors say she isn’t healthy enough to go to Amsterdam. During one of her cancer meetings, one of her doctors, Dr. Maria, says that Hazel should live her life, convincing

Being direct and honest is a way that teenagers can seek relief from pain. The character Hazel Grace Lanchester from the novel; The Fault in Our Stars is philosophical. She understands that “there will come a time when there are no human beings to remember that anyone ever existed or that our species ever did anything.” This helps her cope with facing death because she knows that