Peter Van Houten's The Fault In Our Stars

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The book The Fault in Our Stars tells us a story about pain, love and fear. A 17-year old girl Hazel meets an 18-year-old boy Augustus at a support group. Although Hazel has serious cancer and Augustus has one leg because of osteosarcoma, they fall in love with each other. Hazel shares the novel named An Imperial Affliction which is written by Peter Van Houten to Augustus. Both of them are addicted to the novel and are eager to know the subsequent story of the characters. They write emails to the writer and decided to go to Amsterdam for the answer. Fortunately, they get the airplane tickets from The Genie Foundation and go to Amsterdam with Hazel`s mother under the permission of Hazel`s doctors. After they come to the Peter`s house, Peter …show more content…
In my view, Hazel is like a bomb which is possible to explode momentarily. Augustus says Hazel is afraid of dying and hastily use her only wish. ( Green 72) Hazel worries about his parents will lose the direction and hope of keeping life without her. (Green 15) She fears that people around her will get hurt because of her death, so she refuses the love from Augustus.(Green 82)In an estimate of what people fear the most, book author Bill Tancer analyzed the most frequent online queries that involved the phrase, "fear of..." following the assumption that people tend to seek information on the issues that concern them the most. His top ten list of fears published 2008 consisted of flying, heights, clowns, intimacy, death, rejection, people, snakes, failure, and driving.(Tancer 101 ) Fear stems from the negative objects which have the alike traits with being abandoned and …show more content…
For instance, the terrible experiences happened in childhood, such as bully, isolation, abuse and divorce of their parents, make maladaptive influences on the whole life of people. When the kids grow up, they would be accustomed to scare the similar affairs which they have experienced. The other cause of fear is unknown. It is obvious that most people scare the ghost at night because it has not convinced demonstrations about the super-nature in science researches. In addition, in these cases specialists use False Evidence Appearing Real as a definition. Being scared makes people to anticipate and aggravate of what may lie ahead rather than plans and evaluate. Continuation of scholarly education, most educators perceive this as a risk that may cause them fear and stress.( Burton

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