The Fault in Our Stars: The Message of Courage
Many go about their lives, traversing through strenuous situations, terrifying circumstances, and problematic times, all without the absence of courage. John Green’s The Fault in our Stars has characters who, similarly, negotiate life with courage. The novel is centered around Hazel Grace and Augustus Waters, two teenagers who bravely live life with stage IV Thyroid cancer and Osteosarcoma cancer, respectively. The teenagers endure many of the harsh realities of being a cancer patient while always keeping courage. Hazel and Augustus also suffer through countless critical and tragic times, but they always courageously overcome the crisis. John Green’s The Fault in Our Stars conveys that if courage …show more content…
When confronted with an arduous challenge, it is natural to be hesitant and apprehensive, however, to get through the situation, one must use courage. Peter Van Houten demonstrates the claim by stating, “I had to tell her she would die. Her social worker said I had to tell her. I had to tell her she would die, so I told her she was going to heaven. She asked if I would be there…she asked me when I would be there, and I told her soon…” (286). Peter Van Houten explains the harsh truth to his daughter, the truth that she was soon going to die. He told his daughter the truth in such a way that she was not heartbroken or melancholy, yet she was fine. If Van Houten had not mustered up the courage to speak to his daughter about the truth, he would be burdened with the guilt that he was never been able to tell his daughter that she was going to die. Peter Van Houten displayed innumerable courage when he followed the appropriate, yet difficult pathway of calmly explaining to her daughter her reality. The claim can be further illustrated when Hazel and Isaac conversed, “We talked about it over here once. He was over here, like—uh, we played with my email machine… He’d mentioned it a month before. A month. Not a good month, admittedly, but still—a month. That was enough time for him to have written something, at least. There was still something of him, or by him at least, floating around out there. I needed it. “I’m gonna go to his house” (282-283). After Augustus’s death, Hazel and Isaac were talking amidst which Isaac revealed that Augustus was writing a work of literature for Hazel. This one statement was enough to fill her courage to start looking for Augustus’s last remains, and change Hazel’s frustrated demeanor towards life to an ecstatic demeanor. If Hazel had not received this news, this courage, she would have never changed her attitude towards life, nor
Many go about their lives, traversing through strenuous situations, terrifying circumstances, and problematic times, all without the absence of courage. John Green’s The Fault in our Stars has characters who, similarly, negotiate life with courage. The novel is centered around Hazel Grace and Augustus Waters, two teenagers who bravely live life with stage IV Thyroid cancer and Osteosarcoma cancer, respectively. The teenagers endure many of the harsh realities of being a cancer patient while always keeping courage. Hazel and Augustus also suffer through countless critical and tragic times, but they always courageously overcome the crisis. John Green’s The Fault in Our Stars conveys that if courage …show more content…
When confronted with an arduous challenge, it is natural to be hesitant and apprehensive, however, to get through the situation, one must use courage. Peter Van Houten demonstrates the claim by stating, “I had to tell her she would die. Her social worker said I had to tell her. I had to tell her she would die, so I told her she was going to heaven. She asked if I would be there…she asked me when I would be there, and I told her soon…” (286). Peter Van Houten explains the harsh truth to his daughter, the truth that she was soon going to die. He told his daughter the truth in such a way that she was not heartbroken or melancholy, yet she was fine. If Van Houten had not mustered up the courage to speak to his daughter about the truth, he would be burdened with the guilt that he was never been able to tell his daughter that she was going to die. Peter Van Houten displayed innumerable courage when he followed the appropriate, yet difficult pathway of calmly explaining to her daughter her reality. The claim can be further illustrated when Hazel and Isaac conversed, “We talked about it over here once. He was over here, like—uh, we played with my email machine… He’d mentioned it a month before. A month. Not a good month, admittedly, but still—a month. That was enough time for him to have written something, at least. There was still something of him, or by him at least, floating around out there. I needed it. “I’m gonna go to his house” (282-283). After Augustus’s death, Hazel and Isaac were talking amidst which Isaac revealed that Augustus was writing a work of literature for Hazel. This one statement was enough to fill her courage to start looking for Augustus’s last remains, and change Hazel’s frustrated demeanor towards life to an ecstatic demeanor. If Hazel had not received this news, this courage, she would have never changed her attitude towards life, nor