Analysis Of The Fault In Our's Stars

Shock, anger, numbness, denial, acceptance, and fighting for one’s life, are the general phases of grief through one’s experience with cancer (cancersurvivors.org). Although discovering about one’s cancer can be excruciating, an additional agonizing reaction to a sick person is how the others are affected and their one-on-one reaction to the person. Feeling overly pitiful to one’s illness can impair the situation for the one who is ill by emotionally making the tragedy feel additionally worse. Although the extra sympathy, empathy, and compassion Hazel Grace Lancaster is treated with in The Fault In Ours Stars are intended to comfort, these exaggerated emotions have the opposite effect, further isolating and reminding her of her limited existence, but concurrently, the reality of condolences is pivotal to Hazel’s life.
The physical appearance of Hazel contributes to her personality while it also exacerbates her position on how others treat her. With her short pixie haircut and her green oxygen tank only weighing a few pounds that must be carried from place to place attached to Hazel’s nose, her obviously sick appearance effects the way her surroundings react to her. Despite the barrier and burden of the oxygen tank, Hazel disregards self-pity and luridness of her illness, and rather builds up her life with jauntiness.
Before meeting her lover Augustus Waters, Hazel was just a sixteen year-old girl with cancer surviving rather than living life, attending college, and repeatedly reciting the same book. Hazel’s mother encouraged Hazel to attend a support group in order to express her feelings to people who understand Hazel and her cancer. Her mother did everything for Hazel from driving Hazel to support group to bringing Hazel to meet...

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...iled, then glanced down at my sleeping mother. ‘She won’t mind?’...’Nah’”(220). After denial of being reliant on compassion, Hazel hypocritically took advantage of illness to make her happy.
Ultimately, Hazel initially disliked sympathy from peers primarily because she wanted to be a normal child, but as the novel progressed, Hazel became aware of her surroundings and realized that the blissful events in her life happened because of her illness. Condolences seemed to be excessively used through Hazel Lancaster’s life, which was a fundamental aspect of The Fault In Ours Stars, from the Make-A-Wish Foundation to family friends and strangers. The obscurity of being placated with sensitivity and excessive solace can at first be seen as causing depression and sorrow, but later on can be perceived as a contingent in an ill person’s life.