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The Fault In Our Stars Response Essay

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This response paper intends to show how, a person can have a positive outlook on life despite facing a terminal disease. Focusing on Hazel and Augustus from the novel. YOU NEED TO LINK YOUR STATEMENT TO TEENAGE ANGST SINCE THAT IS IMMEDIATELY AFTER THE STATEMENT What is teenage angst? Teenage angst is the feeling of the feeling of being miss understood. While emotional turmoil may seem to overpower the joy of growing up. There is a purpose and cure. By definition, angst is a feeling of anxiety of life or situation. In the novel The Fault in Our Stars, Hazel Grace Lancaster, a 16-year-old with thyroid cancer spread to her lungs, attends a cancer support group at her mother 's behest. During the support meeting, Hazel meets a 17-year-old boy named Augustus Waters, whose osteosarcoma caused him to lose his leg. The two bond immediately and agree to read each other 's favorite novels. Augustus gives Hazel The Price of Dawn, CITATION and Hazel recommends An Imperial Affliction, CITATION a novel written by Peter Van Houten is her favorite book and is about a cancer struck girl named Anna that parallels with Hazel 's own experience. After Augustus finishes reading her book, he is frustrated upon learning that the novel ends abruptly without a conclusion. Hazel explains that the novel 's author had retreated following the novel 's …show more content…

Hazel and Augustus are forced to deal with loss, and John Green introduces us to characters that are asking big questions and dealing with big issues. When Augustus and Hazel first meet, he tells the support group his biggest fear is oblivion. He fears being forgotten after he is gone. This book asks the question, is it possible to have a full life if you do not get a long life? Hazel and Augustus are marked with an expiration date on their relationship. They explore whether or not it is possible to be happy, when you know it is going to

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