Themes in The Fault In Our Stars?
i used this website for clarification of the novel: http://www.shmoop.com/fault-in-our-stars/themes.html :)
Is this the theme for the fault in our stars?
That's not my interpretation at all. That's kind of a lame theme. Not everybody finds love. (Hazel and Augustus pretty much lost theirs) In my own mind, I've assigned TFIOS two separate themes, which are: 1. Live for the now. Life and all its joys could be ripped away from you at any time. Enjoy your youth. 2. (I think most people miss this) Don't be so quick to idolize people, like Hazel and Augustus did with Van Houten. The people you admire might not be who you think they are. I hope I shed some light on this.
The Fault in Our Stars Theme?
You are right about how the story is about love. I think you should use hazel Gus and van houten as characters. Hazel goes through support group because she loves her parents. Gus is obvious. Van houten's love for his daughter. If your using Isaac to can say how he thought he loved his girlfriend but realized he truly loved hazel and Gus.
What is the theme of the fault in our stars?
I read the book too and it was phenomenal. A theme you might be able to use is how love triumphs over struggle and hardship. I like the line from RENT that says "I think that they meant it when they said you can't buy love, now I know you can rent it...' That like sorta fits for The Fault in Our Stars with Hazel and Augustus' relationship though cancer. Despite the fact that they know they have a limited time to be together, they still love one another. Anyway, good luck with your essay. I hope that I helped some. :)
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.
The Fault in Our Stars message/theme?
It means that every other book is about someone with cancer. Anyway to give you an actual answer I think you are right, also I think it means that we are dealt a crappy hand in life and the best thing we can do is deal with it in the most positive way possible.
When Augustus sends a letter to Hazel through Peter van houten, and Hazel reads it after his death which mentioned how much he loved Hazel and how she had influenced and changed his life.Augustus was obsessed with the idea of being remembered by all, he wanted millions of admirers like superheroes have. He feared oblivion and complained how much his life was in vain. While Hazel tried to explain him how much this obsession of Augustus is futile.In that letter he mentions,“We all wanna be remembered. But Hazel's different. Hazel knows the truth. She didn't want a million admirers, she just wanted one. And she got it. Maybe she wasn't loved widely, but she was loved deeply. Isn't it more than most of us get?”His beautiful confession to hazel of how much she has taught him and how much he had admired her is one of my favorite moment. :)
I agree with Batul Merchant answer.”Someone said that no two persons read the same book,In the light of the same, the theme of the book”. A book can mean different things for different people. But this book , was such a life-changer for me.Life is better when you know you have to say your good-byes.“The thing about pain, it demands to be felt” . This is a very beautiful quote from the book and for me it has always held a very profound meaning. Even though pain is an emotion, it’s quite different , no matter how much you try to avoid it and distract yourself and act like nothing happened, it still eats you out, till you acknowledge it and then it only becomes worse than that. I believe only time can heal pain.Life is too short.Don’t have regrets , or don’t hold grudges.Forgive fast , but don’t make the mistake of doing the same mistake twice.There’s nothing called a perfect moment. Do it right now!Say what you feel to the people who matter.This might sound a little selfish..But death is easy on the dying. But it leaves a void in someone’s life that can never be filled. No matter what, it stays there, haunting the person who’s left behind.It’s human nature to attach ourselves to everything materialistic in life and then be sorry for it’s loss. That’s our greatest folly.
John Green answers this question on his website:Q. The venn diagram confused me. Why is Gus still inside the virgin circle?A. 17-year-olds with one leg are mostly in the circle, but there’s a little space outside of the circle. The space outside is Gus. The space inside is the rest of 17-year-olds with one leg. (This references an earlier joke in the novel.)Basically, Gus is not the only 17-year-old with one leg.Questions about The Fault in Our Stars (SPOILERS!)
In Shakespeare's "Julius Caesar", there is a very famous quote by Cassius, where he tells Brutus,"The fault, dear Brutus is not in the stars, but in ourselves, that we are underlings." He implied that instead of taking responsibility for our own actions,we tend to blame our mistakes and faults on the stars, or in other words, whatever is foretold for us will come to pass, irrespective of whatever we do or feel about it.After all, fate cannot be challenged or defied.However, John Green sets out to prove otherwise. Both the protagonists in this tale were stricken by cancer, and this isn't something that you can blame the patient for, right? In the case of Hazel and Gus, fate seems to have treated them ultra-cruelly, shortening their lives, love and hopes. "The Fault In Our Stars" speaks volumes about the fact that there are some things that are beyond our control; it might be a disease, poverty or an accident, but the thing is, we can still live and take charge of our 'unfair' life, despite the inevitable looming wall of death ahead of us.Thanks for the A2A :-)