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The Fault in Our Stars was quite recently written by John Green and tells the story of two teenagers and their struggle with not only cancer but life in general. Many people struggle to live in the moment as their days seem infinite but for Hazel and Augustus their time left couldn’t appear shorter. This entire story surrounds the question whether both characters are just existing, waiting to become the ‘grenade’ that blows up or instead, learn to live within the time they have making it their “forever within a number of day”. But, it’s not just Hazel and Grace who learn to overcome their fears and break-free. ‘The Imperial Affliction’ that Hazel reads throughout the story reflects that of her own and so does the man who wrote it. Peter Van …show more content…
Cancer doesn’t just create a physical pain for the characters and surrounding people, but it also has a mental pain which has previously prevented Hazel from having a hope for the future. It’s almost a constant necessity for suffering with fear of so much and a certainty of very little. The characters don’t just learn to live in the moment, but first finding each other becomes a relief to their pain even if Augustus does first appear to have any. Augustus doesn’t just seek relief through his relationship with Hazel, he well known coping method is to have the power that he didn’t before. “It's a metaphor, see: You put the killing thing right between your teeth, but you don't give it the power to do its killing.” (Augustus Waters – John Green) Both characters are almost all out of any faith or hope that something will changed, as they unlike others are well aware that eventually everyone dies and any miracles that may happen will only give them that little bit longer. This is why they both are very outspoken about the carelessness they believe the universe has, “what we want is to be noticed by the universe, to have the universe give a shit what happens to us- not the collective idea of sentient life but each of us as individuals.” (John Green). To conclude, both characters and their many fears which are themes throughout the book are the result of their …show more content…
In both stories there is an instant admiration by Romeo and Augustus for the beauty of both girls; even with Hazel’s cancer her beauty is instantly recognised. There is also a similarity between how they fall in love, “As he read, I feel in love the way you fall asleep: slow, and then all at once.” As both Hazel and Juliet were at first hesitant to allow and let someone into their lives for various well-known reasons. Lastly, both stories end with tragedy and sadness, with an unexpected turn of Augustus dying and of course, everyone in Shakespeare
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