To have a life is an opportunity; to live it happily is a choice. Who is not afraid to die? Who is not afraid to be forgotten? Who is not afraid to leave Earth empty-handed and unprepared? The book “The Fault in Our Stars” possesses a story of life and death. A story that would help us realize that a lot of things can be sacrificed in the name of love and infinite happiness.
The book has a power to change the way people think and could alter the way we think of life and death and everything that’s in between.The humor was perfectly balanced and the metaphors were cleverly placed. The story never gets dull. Augustus and Hazel Grace seemed to be alive and had experienced those sad and happy events for real.
They maintained to capture my attention at the end of the story as they did when I first turned a few pages. Hazel Grace is someone I dream to meet one day. Her jolly expression, her witty responds, her drive and her sensitivity makes her unique and lovable all throughout the story.She was characterized with great courage in facing her own cancer problem and engaging into a relationship with another cancer patient. I couldn’t seem to tear my eyes away from the book especially when Hazel Grace went to find the author of her favorite book and ask him what happens in the story.
She expected a satisfying response from the author but it was not given to her thus all her efforts were put into waste. Isaac, Gus and Hazel’s friend, who at first was someone so naughty turned out to be really unbelievable.He was a typical guy who played video games and made jokes at his own illness, and became one of Hazel’s friends in the end. I felt sad in his story especially when he told Augustus during his eulogy this, “When the scientists of the future show up at my house with robot eyes and they tell me to try them on, I will tell the scientists to screw off, because I do not want to see a world without him (Augustus Waters).
” Then here comes Augustus. In a few words, I’d like to explain to you how much impact Gus had made on me. He was like with me all through the story.My heart broke when the book ended the way it did. Although he was trying to encourage Hazel Grace to go on with a life and live as if she was healthy, he was sacrificing himself all along. He even gave her his cancer wish and who in this greedy world would ever do that for someone he just met for a short time? Gus is an ideal guy to every teenage girl but he chose Hazel Grace, a teenager with a gas tank to be carried with her always and has cancer just like him.
Gus was brought to life through his metaphors, and big goofy grins, and in every word he muttered.Cancer-stricken teenagers are such inherently sentimental idea that it all but begs the author to ladle on the tear-jerking moments. And though the book garners its share of tears, it earns them by being brutally honest about its characters and their condition. It’s predictable, but it works nearly perfectly, because it’s always filtered through caustic Hazel, who tells jokes, doubts the afterlife, and constantly points out the conventions of her genre. In conclusion to that, I’d like to say that a lot of people on Earth have problems that differ from one another.Some have worst but we must remember that all of us will die soon.
Oblivion is not something to be afraid of. As Hazel said, “There will come a time when all of us are dead. All of us. 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.Maybe that time is coming soon and maybe it is millions of years away, but even if we survive the collapse of our sun, we will not survive forever. There was time before organisms experienced consciousness, and there will be time after. And if the inevitability of human oblivion worries you, I encourage you to ignore it. God knows that's what everyone else does.
” We have to just go on with life and make the most of our time left here on Earth because anytime soon, we will be dead and no one but the one you love would remember your existence.
