Love In John Green's The Fault In Our Stars

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“Why are you looking at me like that?” “Because you’re beautiful.” This is the part of the book when the main characters, Augustus Waters and Hazel Grace Lancaster meet for the first time. This is also the start of the plot line. The book is a story about how two strangers fall in love and go places that some people could only dream about. However, they both share something in common. They have cancer. One of the amazing adventures that these characters go on is a trip to Amsterdam. In John Green’s The Fault in Our Stars, using Love, Cancer, and Amsterdam, we learn that death cannot be a barrier to love, it should be an incentive to embrace it.
The Love aspect of the book relates to the theme because Love is the reason why the boundaries to live life need to be broken. Hazel met Gus and it impacted her life in a very positive way. Through the book their love grows stronger and stronger. Hazel and Gus see that their friend, Isaac, and his girlfriend, Monica, tell each other the word “always” constantly, as a promise to love each other unconditionally. “Maybe okay will be our always”(72), Gus and Hazel adopt this word as their promise to stand by each other no matter the misfortune. This quote was taken from a scene in the book where Gus and Hazel were texting and
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This is an important lesson to find ways to live life to the fullest. Enjoy every second as if it would be the last. Pursue your dreams and see them come to reality. Many people think that when you have cancer, you don't leave the hospital, but this book proves people wrong. Everything that a healthy person can do, a sick person can do too if their bodies, but most importantly, their will is strong enough to do it. If they want to travel, they can travel. If they want to love, they can love, and they do it with the fullest of their

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