Suffering In The Fault In Our Stars

Although we are told some of our stars are stronger than those of others, as one grows throughout their lifetime, they realize that this does not hold to be true. There are faults in everyone’s stars, hence each individual faces pain in one way or another. In the novel, The Fault in Our Stars by John Green, we see the lives of two teenage individuals both suffering from cancer, along with their different perspectives about life. We also see the struggles and pain they must face society with mentally, physically, and emotionally due to their illnesses. In society, we encounter the same types of pains but in different ways; many people experience the lack of the presence of basic life necessities. Similarly, Augustus and Hazel share a bond in

The two constant actions we partake in (rarely with consent), which decides what will happen to our lives. Every individual faces death, but not everyone knows they are dying. Hazel has a very pessimistic view about her time left, “I bought them a minute. Maybe that’s the minute that buys them an hour, which is the hour that buys them a year. No one’s gonna buy them forever” (134). This quote further signifies that, Hazel is one who believes that every minute that you have alive, is a minute taken away from the time you were given, and so each individual should make the most of these minutes, as they will not be there forever. With this said, Augustus was once thinking about hurdlers, and thought, “this would go faster if we just got rid of the hurdles” (201). This quote suggests that, Augustus saw life as a race, and saw the ‘hurdles’ as his life problems. He thought that if we removed all the hurdles (problems), the race called life would be much more easier and the path to the end would be smoother. But as a race has hurdles to overcome, so does life, they cannot be removed. In my life, I continue to face a series of hurdles related to death. My grandmother is over 90 years old, and is currently in very harsh condition, I see her near the end of her race, but the hurdles in her race are becoming more and more difficult to overcome, as each and every day goes by. The presence of death so closely has truly shown me the value of life, just as it did to Hazel and