The Role Of The Hero In 'The Fault In Our Stars'

No hero’s story is complete without a villain’s contribution. From the time we are but little children, our parents began to tell us of the adventures of countless heroes determined to defeat their enemies so that good may once again triumph over evil. In these first stories the villain is typically defeated rather easily by our brave champion. As we grow older, however, the face of evil becomes much more powerful and may even win a battle or two before ultimately losing the war against the forces of good. But what if there existed a villain that, when in its strongest form, was so powerful that our hero only fought to keep it from winning at that moment, knowing good and well that he/she would inevitably succumb to its superior strength. In The Fault in Our Stars by …show more content…
Just as a suicide bomber chooses to end his/her own life in the pursuit of some moral victory, cancer dies alongside its victim because it literally can not kill its host and continue to live without his/her life force. Alas, cancer’s very existence destines it to either die with Augustus or die at the hands of the treatments meant to eradicate it, and at this point the disease has already crossed the point of no return; Augustus is soon going to die, and the malady will meet its demise alongside him. Within a few short months this comes to pass, and although cancer is also now dead in the case of Augustus Waters, the murderous villain continues to live on in the body of Hazel, victorious in the fact that it has successfully robbed yet another victim of his life. And finally, as the novel’s story comes to an end, it is implied that cancer will succeed once again (though nobody knows when) by killing Hazel herself, leaving cancer to become a villain victorious over the protagonists of the