Critical Analysis Of John Green's 'The Fault In Our Stars'

The world is not always promised. It is not all sunshine and rainbows; it is a cruel and uncaring place. If you are dealt with a bad hand, you cannot change the course of nature. No one is safe from misfortunes. You simply will not escape pain. Essentially, suffering is inevitable, but it is simply a part of living. John Green’s “The Fault in Our Stars” exemplifies healthier ways to deal and overcome pain. It clearly indicates a fitter approach to depression. Specifically, how people can cope with this depression to attain a meaningful life. I consider myself part of the intended audience of “The Fault in Our Stars” because I agree with John Green’s outlook that the universe is indifferent to human life, including suffering.

Hazel Lancaster Grace, a sixteen year old girl who is sick with an incurable thyroid cancer, is

These teenagers are dying of cancer for no fair reason. This indifference and insensitivity is something that Hazel brings up in one of the Cancer Kid Support Group meetings. She recites from a fictional novel called An Imperial Affliction, authored by Peter Van Houton, in which she says: “There will come a time when there are no human beings remaining to remember that anyone ever existed or that our species ever did anything. There will be no one left to remember Aristotle or Cleopatra, let alone you. Everything that we did and built and wrote and thought and discovered will be forgotten and all of this will have been for naught” (2). This understanding expressively says that everyone will eventually die, death is inescapable, and how life will end in oblivion. Furthermore, she believes that there is no point in life. Augustus, who has a more “meaningful” view on life, finds this perspective so intriguing, and fights against her negativism. He means to justify to her that oblivion is unacceptable, and that there must be a point in