The Fault In Our Stars Book Report

The fault in our stars by John Green, is an account of the encounter and the journey of two teenagers who both have cancer. The main character Hazel Grace; suffers from a lung cancer thus she is incapable to breathe without her machine and breathing tubes, earlier in the novel she is depicted more like an observer of her life rather than actually living it. Following her mother’s insistence she joined a support group where she met Augustus Waters ; a seventeen years old lad, she also made the acquaintance of other teenagers battling cancer. Hazel’s encounter with Augustus got her more actively involved in living. The two teenagers embark on a journey of self-exploration and self-actualization from their home to Amsterdam. By the end of the novel the passive hazel comes to the conclusion that the beauty of living does not lie with the number of days, months, or years you have left, but rather in what you chose to do with that amount of time.

Introduction

However what caught my attention most is their wittiness, their sarcasm, and there particular vision of existence and faith. The young Hazel describes herself as “a cancer perk”, or “a walking grenade”. As for Augustus his biggest fear is oblivion; therefore he aims to give a sense and meaning to his short existence. In the fault in our Stars, John Green tackles the theme of existentialism and more precisely the Agnostic Existentialism, he also depict the absurdity of life through his characters contemplations. The aim of this research paper is to illustrate the philosophy of Existentialism as well as the idea of the Absurd which leads to “a leap of faith” in the Fault in Our