Literary Review: The Fault In Our Stars

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CHAPTER:2 LITERATURE REVIEW
The aim of this chapter is to review the literature that has been produced on the various aspects of the characters of the book.
2.1: Major themes of the novel:
All the themes of the novel shows the existences of human being.
1. Stop demanding answers and start living in the questions.
As we know if we immediately asking for answering than it may not come as in the novel they ask about question about today about tomorrow onward what will happen to us noody knows always demand for a question.
2. Live in the moment.
Live every moment of your life whatever it would be live them the most. As Hazel beautifully acknowledges, “some infinities …show more content…

The loudest weeping you hear — including your own — may arise not from grief or admiration, but from envy. ( www.nytimes.com) It shows how a short life can still be an infinity, even if it is a lesser one. ( www.guardian.com)
The fault in our star is a book about cancer and Cancer is such a dreadful disease, indiscriminate in its choice of victim, choosing with aplomb regardless of age, gender, or status. (www.seattlepi.com)
All of his characters react to their cancer in fundamentally the same way and share the same opinions about everything related to Life and Cancer. (disabilityinkidlit.com )
2.4: Conceptual Framework:
This book has one major theme that is free will and our choices, and it is to be analyzed in the perspective of theory of existentialism. The major charcters of this book is Augustus and hazel grace lancester. They make their own choices and live their life.
At early stage hazel suffering from depression and she read only one book that is An imperial affliction by peter van houten and the book was as close a thing as I had to a bible. That’s the book in which houten tells about (a) understand whar its like to be dying and (b) not have …show more content…

Over all novel shows us the clear picture of hardship of teen ager and their meaning of life, although they know about at any time one of them will die but they enjoy every moment of their life and love eachother. This whole novel shows many things that resemble in our life also but we are unable to think of it.
2.5: Empirical studies:
Empirical study deals with the similar research to the thesis topic. The similar study to my research is based on a novel, the fault in our stars by John Green (2012).
This research aims at identifying the self-defense mechanism and core issues of the main character of the novel, named Hazel Grace Lancaster. And the theory of existentialism is used here, and as a literary research, it uses a descriptive qualitative method.
Hazel Grace Lancaster’s self-defense mechanism
As a round character her personality develops from time to time in the novel, she unconsciously employs self- defense mechanism in order to press her anxieties so that they stay in the unconscious level.
By reading the novel several defense mechanisms can be found in her personality, such as:
• Selective perspective
• Denial

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