The Fault In Our Stars 'And The Mighty'

Relationships. Friendships, romantic relationships and everything in between. The ideal and desired outcome of a relationship is for it to endure and last through any hardships that life throws at it. In order to achieve this, many friendships and relationships encounter adversity and it is how the individuals choose it to handle it that creates the difference between long-lasting and short-lived relationships. Within the movie, The Mighty by Peter Chelsom and the novel The Fault In Our Stars by John Green, the relationships between Maxwell Kane and Kevin Dillon, as well as Hazel Grace Lancaster and Augustus Waters face an immense amount of adversity and it is their actions and solutions that causes them to endure or be brief. In Max and Kevin’s
Bunch of bull’” (The Mighty). Instead of thoroughly talking about it, Max resorts to pulling away and detaching himself, and within those few seconds, it seems as though their stable friendship is shattered. This is important because Max’s actions demonstrate that the way he chooses to handle difficult situations causes his dependability to waver, which weakens their trust and overall friendship. To compare, within Hazel and Augustus’ relationship, neither character’s reliability and dependability falter when tough circumstances arise. Rather, when they face hardships, their dependability and support remains strong and brings them closer. When Augustus reveals to Hazel the heartbreaking news that the cancer has returned, and it has spread throughout his entire body, instead of letting fear and uncertainty control her, Hazel remains supportive and makes it known that she will forever stand by him. Hazel demonstrates her dependability to Augustus during a conversation they have. Augustus compares his life to a roller coaster and explains how from that point on, it is only going up. To this, Hazel adds, “And it is my privilege and my responsibility to