The Fault in Our Stars
Synopsis
The Fault in Our Stars is a romantic tale written by John Green. The story is narrated by a 16 year old cancer patient named Hazel Grace Lancaster .The story opens up when Hazel reluctantly attends a cancer patient support group at her mother’s behest. In one of the meetings, she catches the eye of a teenage boy Augustus Waters who is there to support his friend Isaac, suffering from eye cancer. Augustus has osteosarcoma but after having his leg amputated he recovers. Augustus approaches Hazel and invites her to his home. Hazel shares her favorite book “An Imperial Affliction” with Augustus and together they obsess about the unsolved ending. Intrigued Hazel emails the author and finally gets invited to Amsterdam to discuss the ending.
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First the strong, funny, full of life, charming blue eyed boy, fetishizing his own grandiosity who wants to leave a mark on humanity and to whom importance of life is to leave a noble legacy behind. As his cancer returns, he is only ‘Gus’ what his parents call him and not grandiosely named and strong Augustus Waters. Underneath the romantic and strong gestures, Gus is a sweet, caring and a terrified teenager fighting life.
Contrary to Hazel, who is reserved and doesn’t want to make a real move at the risk of hurting anyone, Augustus is quite determined to leave a mark on everything he touches. He knows how to live life to the fullest and rescues Hazel from all the drudgery of being a cancer kid. It is his love for Hazel that makes him realize that failing to do something extraordinary due to his excruciatingly painful condition does not equal being insignificant. He metaphorically places his cigarette between his lips representing his control over the thing that could kill him. But ironically at the end he has no control over his disease and what destiny has woven for him and was completely
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When was the last time you felt certain of your impending future? For cancer survivor, Hazel, the answer is never. In The Fault in Our Stars, sixteen year old Hazel lives with cancer and attends a support group where she meets Augustus, another young cancer survivor who changes her outlook on the world forever. He takes Hazel on an adventure of love, friendship, and pain, and together they yearn to have authority over their uncontrollable fates. Isaac, a blind teenager, and Hazel’s mom also play significant roles in her life. Similarly, in Of Mice and Men, George and Lennie strengthen their friendship through love and suffering, and they learn that humans have some control over their end destination. At the ranch they work at, Lennie and George have to choose how they want their lives to turn out, which directly impacts the choices they will make regarding the future. While John Green’s The Fault in Our Stars and John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men both establish motifs of friendship, games, and hands, they convey different universal ideas about humanity. In particular, Green suggests that humans cannot always manipulate every situation, while Steinbeck focuses on the ideas that men often have a choice in their destinies.
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Well before I read this book, I actually did think about what the title could mean and why the author wrote it so. Before I read this book I thought the book was about astronauts or something ridiculous. During the book I had some ideas that "The Fault In Our Stars" meant a mistake or something that predestined one's fate. I was kind of close. The title meant that the Fault is not always in the others, but in ourselves. For instance, Hazel Grace has cancer and a chronic illness not because she did something to cause it; It was just fate. I believe the title was just giving us a hint of the main idea of the book.
The Fault in Our Stars also uses many themes in order to teach life lessons to young-adults reading this book. For example, John Green shows that love conquers all things, even cancer and death. Although Augustus ends up facing death, Hazel’s love for him is true and it will ne...
The Fault in Our Stars was written in January of 2010 by John Green. The story is narrated by sixteen-year-old cancer patient Hazel Gr...