The Fault In Our Stars

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Prompt - What did you learn from what you read?

I learned a lot more than I had bargained for. I have wanted to read The Fault In Our Stars for a while now because I always heard people talking about it, but I always thought that it would just be a romantic kind of book that really didn't teach anything but wow was I completely wrong. In the book one of the things that always stuck in my head was something that Hazel Grace, the main character said, "We are all side affects of dying." I still don't know if I understand it fully and maybe John Green had a different view of it but I think that what she said basically meant that whatever we do, we are all gonna end up; gone. I think that this stood in my mind a lot because of who said it, Hazel Grace was a girl who had survived cancer and hadn't been someone who let it bring her down and not want to go out, it actually made her want to be more independent and honestly even though she had to have an oxygen tank with her at all times, she went through a normal life that any teenage girl would.


The second quote that taught me a bunch would be the one to the left. "That's the thing about pain. It demands to be felt." This quote taught me a lot because I never really thought of it that way. This quote was also in a very deep part of the book where it was the first time that Augustus had seen Hazel cry, and it was a huge deal because no one had ever seen Hazel cry except her mom. This quote stays in my head because I think that in this case in the way that John Green wrote this, it gave pain personification and I think that it would mean a lot to Hazel because even though all of the adversities she has gone through, I think that hearing something that wasn't, "You can make it" or "It'll go away someday" meant a lot to her.

 This was another one of those quotes where I don't really even get the full meaning of. In this quote, I think that to me it really just meant that we have the power to choose what takes over us. In the quote, Augustus Waters, one of the main characters had a pack of cigarettes and put one in his mouth, when Hazel saw that, she got mad and started yelling at him because he had almost lost his life during surgery and now he would risk his chances but then he said what it says in the quote. Augustus basically says that he puts the cigarette in his teeth but never lights it, he doesn't give it the power to kill him.