The Fault In Our Stars Cancer Quotes

n John Green's The Fault In Our Stars, the main characters Hazel and Augustus both suffered from different types of cancer. Augustus suffered from osteosarcoma and eventually lost his leg and became cancer free. But Hazel, she was still fighting the type of cancer that spreads and doesn't go away. Throughout the whole book Hazel is going to be the one who doesn't make it, but then the reader finds out that Augustus’s cancer is back. Gus’s cancer has spread everywhere, he described the PET scan lighting up like a christmas tree. In the mince of losing hope, one night Augustus drove himself to the gas station to buy cigarettes. He doesn't smoke them, he just puts the killer in between his lips. He does not give it the power to kill him by not

Before Hazel meets Augustus, she is obviously in a depression where she feels life isn’t worth trying anymore. She is stuck in this mind altering feeling that she should just be waiting for herself to die instead of living life while she still has time. While she is still fighting cancer and having that physical pain, Augustus comes into her life and makes her become a different person. Augustus always says, “we're on a rollercoaster that only goes up my friend.”(Green John 11) Being surrounded by his mindset really affects Hazel. She starts not letting her cancer control her life and she's always doing stuff with Augustest, and their friend Isaac. A psychologist in California conducted a study and found that Mental Pain affects people just the same or more than physical pain. “Our thoughts have the capacity to make us miserable, and negative thinking can be especially insidious, feeding on itself, with the potential to become a self-fulfilling and self-defeating prophecy.” (Mager Dan 15) When Augustest Gave Hazel a will to live she became a different person even though she still had cancer. Hazel’s mindset changed; she was still sick, but was living a better life because she had a positive

When Gus’s cancer comes back he carries the burden of providing closure for everyone around him. To provide closure for Hazel and Issac he makes them write a eulogy and read it to him before he dies. Hazel and Issac have gone through cancer before, so they know that he has already accepted his death. “Anyway, that was the last good day I had with Gus until the last good day.”(Green John 252) Hazel said this when she was at Gus's house with his parents. sisters, and nieces. Accepting that his time was coming soon. A study done at a hospital in Texas showed “Recognizing death as part of life and thinking about death itself are social coping strategies…” (Ruiz-Fernández 15) People who struggle with a terminal illness have to accept death as a part of living at a different extreme than people who are healthy. When you know you are going to die you see living life as a