The theme of life is a major concept that crosses one’s mind each day. Whether a person is aware of their actions or not, people act in order to survive and stay alive. However, some people have to face the reality that their life is going to end sooner than expected and the mentality of survival changes to just living. The film, The Fault in Our Stars, directed by Josh Boone with screenplay by Scott Neustadter and Michael Weber, features star crossed lovers Augustus Waters (Ansel Elgort) and Hazel Lancaster (Shailene Woodley) who have to live their life knowing they are going to die of cancer. The two teenagers spend their lives living like it is their last day. They live as if the time they have left is their own infinity. Boone is able …show more content…
Both Augustus and Hazel appear ill and weak. Isaac appears helpless, not able to see. The director wants this scene to come off as morbid. He wants the audience to feel sad and depressed. Loved ones are saying goodbye and talking of their friend’s death to the person who has not yet died. Boone uses this visual aspect of the film to catch the audience. He shows how helpless the characters are as Isaac struggles to navigate and Augustus must tell him to “go a little to the left, put your hand out, there is a podium to your right”(The Fault in Our Stars). He wants them to feel and believe that the characters are numb and dying; that their life is ending and everything is over. However, that is not how they feel. The characters have found the happiness within their sadness. They have found the light within their darkness. Hazel even says to Augustus “how thankful [she] is for [their] little eternity” and the she “[would not] trade it for anything in the world” (The Fault in Our Stars). They enjoyed their moments and are now celebrating what they shared with one another at this mini funeral. Boone shows how even …show more content…
The characters within The Fault in Our Stars are able to find joy within the terrible world they have lived in and even in the most devastating scenes, bring happiness and love into the film. The audience is able to appreciate and understand how much of a blessing life is and knowing that when one goes to sleep at night, the next morning they will wake up healthy and alright. If people who do not have this luxury of security and livelihood are able to remain hopeful in the world, the people who are lucky enough to have this luxury must not take advantage of it. Live life and take in each special moment. Appreciate the little things, because one day they will be gone and when leaving the world, it is much better to leave happy about one’s time spent on earth rather than sad about the
From the first day that Hazel and Augustus encountered, the two are practically inseparable. The basis of their relationship ended up being Hazel's beloved book, An Imperial Affliction. She required Augustus to read it and in return, he required her to read the book that was the basis of his favorite game. Hazel related to the character in the book, Anna, because she had a rare blood cancer malignancy. Augustus and Hazel bonded within the book because both of them had a burning desire to determine how the story ended, because the author stopped the book before providing the conclusion on what happened to every one of the characters.
After Green graduated college he decided that he wanted to be an Episcopal priest so he started working at a divinity school at the University of Chicago and worked as a chaplain at a children’s hospital in Ohio. As a chaplain, he counseled families that had children who had died or were dying. This affected Green and encouraged him to write a book about sick kids but didn’t write it until later in life. Green said, “But I was so angry, so furious with the world that these terrible things could happen, and they weren’t even rare or uncommon, and I think in the end for the first ten years or so I never could write it because I was just too angry, and I wasn’t able to capture the complexity of the world. I wanted the book to be funny. I wanted the book to be unsentimental. After meeting Esther, I felt very differently about whether a short life could be a rich life”(Braun 30-31). In 2009, Green met Esther Grace Earl at LeakyCon, a convention in Boston for fans of the Harry Potter series. Esther Grace Earl was a fifteen-year-old girl with thyroid cancer and stayed in touch with Green for a while but later died at the age of sixteen. Green was inspired by the way Esther lived her life, humor, and strength which inspired the character of Hazel Grace Lancaster in The Fault in Our Stars (Braun 29). Hazel is a sixteen-year-old girl that has thyroid cancer, has to depend on an
One of the main motifs in All Those Things We Never Said and The Fault in Our Stars is death. Both Marc Levy and John Green have included cultural references from France and United States through the depiction of funerals and overall meaning of death to the protagonists in both novels. Levy attempts to portray a common American funeral, however, it is noticeable the influence of the French culture due to the omission of the eulogy and the presence of few relatives. Meanwhile, Green presents a typical American funeral and eulogies from Hazel and Isaac.
The Fault in Our Stars, a book about a little girl with cancer? No, it is a story of love, courage, family, coming of age, consciousness, existence, and mortality; it tells the story of two star-crossed teens and their adventure though their fleeting life. It is the story of Hazel Grace Lancaster.
Cancer limits her chances at being a normal teenage girl with a normal life. As reluctant as she was to go to support group, she meets other teenagers going through the same stuff. Hazel gets to experience the flirting, adventure, and excitement of teenage life. She allows herself to be immature and careless. Gus’s death reminds her how unfair the world is but she doesn't regret her choices. In her eulogy at the funeral, Hazel says “I cannot tell you how thankful I am for our little infinity. I wouldn’t trade it for the world. You gave me a forever within the numbered days, and I’m grateful.” (Green 260). This quote shows she doesn't regret becoming close to him; even with the unfortunate fallout she’s thankful for the time and experiences. Hazel matures because of her relationship. She got the chance at “normal” and love. Caring for someone with cancer helped her mature.
The remaining characters, Anne, Shirley and Sandy all suffer huge depths of despair, yet their suffering appears to lessen to some degree in the eyes of the viewer/reader due to their hope, determination and stability which in some ways assist them in attempting to resolve their problems and become reunited with their loved ones.
Which slowly escalating to two souls finding each other and connecting on their biggest issue. Hazel and Augustus have shown us that relationships are meant to develop. In John Green’s melodrama The Fault in Our Stars helps us see a bigger picture on different people connecting in a higher lever. This is important because how would the book be different it this weren't to occur, we can even relate this back into our own personal life to understand people better. Hazel and Augustus as a person both wouldn't be the same they both helped each other out, they were both together building a stronger bond every time thanks to their huge similarity of
He is not handsome, rich, brave, good, nor fun. He is in fact another dissatisfied salary man that is going through his mundane life with sarcasm and a frown on his face. He is a true portrayal of ordinary people in this world because many people feel like every day is the same from yesterday, and thinking they will never be able to escape from the reality’s suffering. This is demonstrated in the film as Phil confesses his agony to a man named Ralph at the bar saying, “What would you do if you were stuck in one place and every day was exactly the same, and nothing that you did mattered?” To this Ralph replies, “That about sums it up for me.” This ordinary issue torments most people. Continuous pain that comes from not realizing the reason or purpose to live is eternal recurrence. However, Phil Connors demonstrates that we as citizens have free choice to change the circumstances we are in and our reactions to it. Connor’s initial reaction to his recurrence represents the common stages of depression that people experience: denial, anger, depression, and acceptance. The plot shows Phil’s multiple suicide attempts as he comments, “I have been stabbed, shot, poisoned, frozen, hung, electrocuted, and burned” in order to escape from his
2. Another complication to The Fault in Our Stars, is that a few days after Hazel Grace and Augustus (and their parents as well) start planning for their trip to Amsterdam, things turn for the worst when at night, Hazel Grace’s lungs fill up with fluid. This unsuspected event causes Hazel Grace’s heath to plummet 7 stories down and brings the Amsterdam trip to halt. The highly anticipated trip for the two teenagers, plus her mother, was put on hold because Hazel Grace’s health was so unstable and they couldn’t risk her getting worse or another accident happening while in Amsterdam without the right doctors on hand.
In The Fault in Our Stars, Hazel distanced herself from her friends and family. Her mom thought she was depressed since she rarely socialized with others and took her to see a doctor who recommended she join the Support Group (Green, pp. 4). In the Support Group, participants offer each other help. Hazel did not like the Support Group. She often dreaded not going and when she did go, she rarely paid any attention. It just so happens that on one of the days she did not want to go, she meets Augustus Waters. She feels self-conscious when she sees him staring at her during one of the Support Group meetings. Hazel befriends Gus and eventually falls in love with him. She trusts Gus and finds that she can share and relate to him. They both have changed
In this movie, two strangers fall in love, one of the main characters named Will Traynor has been paralyzed and is dying. The movie is based on the assisted suicide of Will Traynor. His lover and caretaker Louisa Clark however, has no idea that he is planning on doing an assisted suicide. The pain that comes from getting to know each other, the character’s personal lives and the separation by death of the two main characters and lovers is heartbreaking. In the heart-wrenching scene where Clark finds out that Traynor will have an assisted suicide he says, “And if you do love me, Clark, as you say you do, the thing that would make me happier than anything is if you would come with me. So I'm asking you - if you feel the things you say you feel - then do it. Be with me; give me the end I'm hoping for.” In the movie, song, and play the heartwrenching and dull reality of pain is the most prominent part and is the core of the
The book the fault in our star was set in contemporary times somewhere in the north America. The book follows the life of hazel grace, 16-year-old girl with terminal cancer. To appease her mother, hazel frequently attend a cancer support group where she meets augustus waters, a 17-year-old handsome cancer survival . augustus and hazel’s relationship grows quickly through a shared and understanding of living with cancer and things turn around when augustus died. The book basically expanciate on love triumphs over struggle and hardship among teenagers with health problem.
Augustus’ deaths’ effect on Hazel and Isaac goes to show that it’s best to spend time with the ones we love, before they are
How familiar are you with cancer? Have you ever known someone who had cancer? For most people the answers are very little and no. Hazel Lancaster and Augustus Waters, the main characters in the novel The Fault in Our Stars by John Green, are teenagers who have been diagnosed with cancer. You might pity these young people at first because of their illness, but they’re both heroic characters, and just like Hazel says, “it’s just a touch of cancer”(217). Augustus and Hazel met each other through their cancer, and were inseparable until the very end. This #1 New York Times Bestseller, provokes a lot of emotion while dealing with a difficult and meaningful topic.
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...