Similarities Between 500 Days Of Summer And The Fault In Our Stars

On Marc Webb’s (500) Days of Summer and John Green’s The Fault in Our Stars, the protagonists embark on a quest that forces them to recognize individual truths; Tom apprehends that there is no such thing as love, while Hazel acknowledges that death is inescapable. Both the film and the novel exhibit the color, blue. Blue can be defined as any of “faith, spirituality, contentment, and, depression” (Fusco,” The Psychology of Color in Film”). On the film and novel, blue is displayed as sadness since both the protagonists face the harsh truth of reality. On (500) Days of Summer Tom shows depression when Summer break-ups with him, while In The Fault in Our Stars the whole novel displays it because Hazel has cancer and the boy she falls in love with, Augustus, also has cancer; Hazel didn’t want to fall in love because she feared death and she …show more content…
The truth became meaningful because both got to mature as a person. Both the film and novel share the same theme of love because both the main characters fell madly in love with someone. They also have the same theme of both the main protagonists growing up because in (500) Days of Summer, Tom always believed that he would find true happiness if he found the one and he thought Summer was the one for him, but ultimately ends up in heartbreak causing him to mature as a person and be thankful for the relationship because of it, he got to grow up and was happy. In The Fault in Our Stars, Hazel grew up because she knows that death is inevitable, but she finally accepts it and even though it will hurt the ones that she cares about if she dies, that is something that happens every day because it’s common and she doesn’t regret falling in love with Augustus because of him, she changed her view on the world. The difference between these characters is that Hazel seemed more mature than Tom and she faced more hardships than