In "The Fault In Our Stars", did Hazel die at the end?
I am only a young girl, in her teens. It comes very easy to me to understand meanings of books and the world around me. I too was afraid of oblivion. I too thought it was scary to not be remembered. In the movie, Hazel and Gus talk about their death outfits. I saw that as a foreshadow in my eyes. In the book and in the movie, No, Hazel doesn’t die, Gus does. Gus and Hazel shared their own infinity. I think that in the end when Hazel puts on the white dress and laid down on the grass saying, “okay” that was her way of saying that it was her time and that their infinity was too short. I always seem to want to know what happens after. It was very easy for me to understand what Hazel went through. Not the cancer, but the death of a close loved one. I thought like Hazel that my loved ones infinity would have been longer. My loved one died the same way Gus did. That is how i understand. Hopefully this helps.
Important events in The Fault in Our Stars?
- Hazel goes to the support group where she meets Augustus. - Augustus uses his Genie Foundation wish to take her to Amsterdam. - Their friend going blind. - Hazel's treatment working. - Augustus dies.
What is the theme (the message) of The Fault In Our Stars?
The message of John Green's The Fault in Our Stars is conveyed through Hazel's boyfriend Augustus Waters. Gus is someone who likes to have control over anything he can control. Also, he desparately wants to a hero (The Big Boss, The MAN) and does so vicariously through playing war-centric video games. He wants to be important and have this grand legacy and when he finds his time in this world is being cut-short by illness, he plays more video games than usual and almost crazily obsesses over being fantastic and remembered in the time he has left. It isn't he completely loses his abilities [see: the gas station scene], when he breaks down physically and emotionally, that he realizes some things he cannot help and cannot control. He cannot be the stereotypical macho hero. Hazel teaches him the "legacy" he has with the ones he loves (his family, his friends, his girlfriend) is more important than fame and glory among strangers (the general public). In a nutshell, Sometimes you have to drop the ideas of grandeur and accept what God/Fate/the STARS ( *hint* ) have given you. The title of the novel "Fault In Our Stars" is based off Shakespeare's Julius Caesar. There is a scene in the first act when Cassius says, “Men at sometime were masters of their fates. / The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, / But in ourselves, that we are underlings” (I.ii.140–142) Again here, life is at times beyond your control. Cancer would have been emotionally and psychologically easier for Gus as life would have been for Cassuis if he had rolled with the punches and got his head out of the clouds ( *hint*) Both die trying to control Fate.