The novel The Fault In Our Stars shows the story of a sixteen-year-old cancer patient named Hazel Grace Lancaster, who is forced by her parents to attend a support group where she subsequently meets and falls in love with the seventeen-year-old Augustus Waters, an ex-basketball player and amputee. Important themes in the novel acceptance in society and the fear of oblivion.

Acceptance in society is an important theme shown in this novel. It is shown by both of the main characters in the novel as they both have a type of cancer and are viewed differently by society. For example, because Hazel has lung cancer she requires an oxygen tank to breathe properly. Due to this she receives weird looks in public. Another example of this is near the end of the book when Augustus is at the petrol station getting cigarettes and his G-tube is messed up and requires the assistance of Hazel. He says “...but I wanted...to do it by myself. Do one little thing myself”. Through this as a reader we can see that Augustus feels the need to prove that although he has cancer he can still do small things like go to the petrol station to buy something, although it majorly failed and he ended up in hospital. This theme was very important in this book because in the generation that we live in, everyone has the need to fit in and proved themselves to their peers.

Fear of oblivion is also an important theme shown in the novel.The main characters in the novel are forced to confront death in a way that the young and healthy aren't. Although everyone will eventually die, as Hazel points out in Support Group, death's immediacy to the terminally ill means they can't avoid considering what comes after death, and the potential that all that's waiting for them is oblivion. This theme carries throughout the novel. It's what motivates Augustus's desire to perform some heroic act before he dies and validate his significance. He worries that, without doing something dramatic that lives in people's minds after he's gone, he won't have mattered. His significance, like his consciousness, will simply be consumed by oblivion after his death. For Hazel, the fear of oblivion strikes her in a different way. She needs to know that those close to her, and her relationships with them, will carry on after her death. The fear of oblivion is an important theme in the book as it serves as a reminder to readers that we do not live forever, therefore we must make the most of the time we have no matter how short or long the amount of time we have left is. Due to the fact that this generation is very technologically orientated, I feel as if we take out time being alive for granted by wasting hours on social media and not using our time wisely by staying in our comfort zones and not trying new things

In conclusion, I think that the novel The Fault in our Stars is more than just some sappy love story that so many people take it for. The themes in the book such as the need to feel accepted and fear of oblivion made me realise how lucky I am to have the life I am living. I feel like in the world we are living in we take too many things for granted and this story helps to show people that we should live our life to the fullest and grasp any opportunities that we are given because our time is limited.