The novel The Fault in Our Stars by John Green

The novel, The Fault in Our Stars by John Green is about two teenagers that fall in enjoy, but unlike most other teenage romance stories, there’s an unresolvable twist: they each have cancer. The principal characters, Augustus and Hazel, know from the commence that if they are to pursue a relationship, it won’t last forever. Despite this known fact, they grow closer even though death can so instantaneously tear them apart. They live out their own infinity together and generate a lot of memories along the way. But the novel doesn’t just span love it spans the meaning of life, death, philosophy, acceptance, aspirations, friendship, and support. These attributions make the New York Instances Bestseller, The Fault in Our Stars a classic piece and a useful addition to teen literature.

The novel’s characters are unique simply because they’re anything but your common teenagers. They’re wise, witty, they quote poetry, and speak philosophically. With his knack for adding humor to the lives of two enjoy and cancer struck teenagers, John Green tends to make us laugh, cry, consider, pray, and hope for the characters all at the very same time. Green has received higher praise for the novel, particularly the outstanding characters. Regardless of rave testimonials, a massive criticism folks have voiced towards the novel is that the characters do not speak like teenagers of this day and age, to which John Green responded “I’m tired of adults telling teenagers that they aren’t smart, that they can’t study critically, that they are not thoughtful” (John Green: ‘I’m Tired of Adults Telling Teenagers That They Are not Smart’). The narrator is Hazel Grace Lancaster and she has powerful opinions of what she should and shouldn’t do, which is what tends to make her irresistible to Augustus from the quite beginning she is extremely in tune with reality since she accepts her disease and does not anticipate specific therapy or pity, she really hates it she values the cold, challenging truth above all else. This quote embodies her philosophy: “whenever you read a cancer booklet or site or what ever, they always list depression among the side effects of cancer. But in reality, depression is not a side effect of cancer.

Depression is a side effect of dying” (Green). Her tone is conversational and frank, Green flawlessly and freely captures a teenage girl’s inner monologue filled with dark and often, self-deprecating humor. An example of this is when she thinks “the diagnosis came three months following I got my very first period. Like: Congratulations! You’re a woman. Now die” (Green). At this moment, Green makes Hazel so straightforward to relate to and he invokes a number of emotions, such as amusement and sadness at the identical time. Augustus, on the other hand, is extremely various yet extremely equivalent to Hazel. Hot, charming, clever, and emotionally deep however somewhat self-centered, Augustus connects with Hazel effortlessly and falls for her when they meet at a cancer assistance group. Augustus is really humorous, philosophical, outspoken, and determined to get what he desires, which is to live a meaningful life and leave his mark on the globe. Because of his quirky qualities, Augustus is the embodiment of the best guy that all teenage girls are crazy for, the only drawback is that he has cancer, lost a leg simply because of it, and can fall into an abyss identified as the unpredictable pendulum of time.

Green’s resonance of metaphors and symbolism convey the complex nature of time or lack of it. As Augustus says, “What a slut time is. She screws everybody.” Throughout most of the novel, Hazel and Augustus are obsessed with a book known as An Imperial Affliction, which is about a girl named Ana, who also has cancer. They are so hung up on it and frustrated about it that they have read it numerous occasions, just to attempt and figure out the end. The book ends mid-sentence so Augustus and Hazel are dying to figure out what occurred to the other characters. Hazel is especially fascinated with this book due to the fact it relates to herself. In her own life, she is Ana and she desires to know what will happen to the people about her soon after she dies, she desires to make certain they are all correct and they go on and move on with their lives. Hazel’s cancer is rare and terminal so she knows the inevitable will come about and she wants to decrease the quantity of men and women she hurts in the world due to the fact time is fleeting. She calls herself a grenade that can go off at any time and destroy the ones she is close to. Augustus, on the other hand, doesn’t agree with her reasoning when he says “You do not get to pick if you get hurt in this world…but you do have some say in who hurts you. I like my choices” (Green). In one more scene, Hazel and Augustus are playing a videogame and his character in the game jumps in front of her when a grenade is going to hit her and he sacrifices his character’s life to save hers Green cleverly repeats the word “grenade” to delineate how Hazel thinks of herself and how Augustus doesn’t care since he loves her. According to the Oxford dictionary, “star crossed” is a phrase describing a pair of lovers whose partnership is frequently thwarted by outside forces.

Augustus and Hazel can also be connected to other star crossed lovers and star crossed characters in history. The title itself alludes to the fact that the stars are functioning against their partnership. Romeo and Juliet is of the much more popular examples of star crossed lovers for their families did not want them to unite. In the play Julius Caesar, Cassius says to Brutus “The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves, that we are underlings.” This quote signifies that fate does not play a role in what happened all through the play, instead all the characters brought upon what happened themselves and the title of the novel alludes to this quote. Even so, The Fault In Our Stars is an antithesis of this quote because Hazel and Augustus are victim to the inevitable destiny that fate has in retailer for them and Green shows how they are helpless against it.

Life and death are recurring themes of the novel simply because Augustus is really concerned with the influence he will have on the planet when he dies he desires his life to be remembered by every person and he wants his death to be well-known and heroic and tragic. He desires everyone to come to his funeral and desires every person to speak about him. Hazel, however, disagrees with his opinion. “Usually someone’s worth in your life cannot be measured on a scale. You can not give it a quantity among one particular and ten.

Normally, you can only say it was largely good, or mostly not. Then there are the Augustus Waters of the world, who so entirely modify your life, their impact could in no way be erased.” This heartbreaking quote portrays the moment that Hazel is reflecting on how much Augustus meant to her and in her opinion, it didn’t matter if every person remembers Augustus’s life or not since the ones that enjoy him would. The Fault in Our Stars is genuinely a conglomerate of wonderful dynamics. Green teaches us about everything that is beautiful about life, such as enjoy and friendship, wishes and dreams. The novel touches and warms the heart and at other occasions, it chills the bone. Most of all, it makes you believe about and reflect on your personal memories and life experiences. The Fault in Our Stars assists us appreciate what we have and accept life for what it is without having regrets.