The Fault In Our Stars

Sirena Seymour
November 3, 2014
Grand Canyon University-105
Barbara Duncan

Unexpected Journey It’s tough enough being a sixteen years old girl, but imagine being a sixteen-year-old girl who has terminal thyroid cancer. Unexpectedly a very handsome boy walks into this young girls life and takes her through a journey she would have never thought she’d go through. In John Greens novel, “The Fault in Our Stars” it takes the reader through a young, tragic love story between a sixteen year old girl named Hazel Grace, and a boy she meets in a cancer support group named Augustus Waters; whom both have cancer. Greens novel touches on a wide variety of emotions and pulls the reader into the romantic love story that unfolds as you keep reading. The novel starts with Hazels mother urging and pushing her to go to a cancer support group which she hates, however, little did she know this time she would meet Augustus Waters, a boy who would turn her life around. As the movie progresses we learn that Augustus cancer has relapsed, and the novel ends with his heartbreaking death. Greens novel focuses on the true love and never ending hope built and felt between two teenagers who destinies were tragic. Hazel Grace, who has Stage IV thyroid cancer with lung metastases, narrates this book. While attending cancer support group she makes two friends: Isaac, who has lost sight in one eye and is loosing sight in the other eye, and Augustus, who had to get his leg amputated due to osteosarcoma. Hazel is immediately attracted to Augustus, but she attempts to ignore him because she feels as if she is a grenade (as though she will blow up soon), and when this happens she does not want to bring more people down with her. She believes that nothing good will come out of letting someone love her, and that it will do nothing but hurt him in the end. However, Augustus manages to convince Hazel that pain is inevitable, and there is no way to prevent it, but you have the power to choose who hurts you. As I was reading the novel I descried that many issues are raised throughout it that are very paramount. All of these issues are raised with a great deal of humor and reviling language (that verbalizes diametrical to what's designated), so that sober points get made in a way that are more efficacious for being comical. Most of these issues are conspicuous but ignored often; one being the way cancer patients would relish to be visually perceived as “people” instead of “cancer victims”, and how deeply it hurts to be isolated by other people who have learned to become uncomfortable around them. Another issue is the fact that just because someone has cancer it doesn’t make them more holy; they experience melancholy, anger and mood swings just like everyone else. This reiterates the fact that they optate to be accepted as ”people”. However, the most immensely colossal, most reiterating theme is the fear of nothingness and the fear that the opportunity to experience all life has to offer and the love that comes with it will be taken away in any moment. Augustus is deplorably troubled by the conception of nothingness, and Hazel by her want to ascertain the way things turn out for the people that she truly loves, always hoping for the best for them. Together, Hazel and Augustus go through a journey that helps them work through their worries, and their worry and despondence over the notion that nothing subsists of suffering- with no restrictions to those who have cancer. Usually textuality has a plethora of limits, coercing (on people) a desideratum to fit unspeakable emotional experience inside thee reason-heftily ponderous framework authoritatively mandated by conventions of books. Emotion can be (had power taken away) or even neutralized because of this. However, John Green manages to somehow over come this obstacle. His description of the never-ending pain you feel when you loose a person that you love so deeply, is the best that I have ever laid my eyes upon. The question of: why would I optate to have such pain made so authentic? Might come across your mind. I would answer this question by saying that if you have ever experienced this type of pain, you’ll appreciate how someone was able to genuinely deduced how to rightly verbalize it. Anyone who has ever probed for the construal of life, and anyone who has questioned the consequentiality of his or her own life, should read this amazing story on the struggle of the human spirit to leave a mark that verbalizes to the world: I was here. This book demands valiancy to read it. While there is no superficial sadness, there is natural woefulness and pain. But there is also a great deal of humor, ecstasy, and love. While I get to choose from many books which one will hurt me, I would choose this one without hesitation.