“That’s the thing about pain” Augustus said “It demands to be felt” (10, Green). Who among us has been plagued with feelings? For most teenagers it seems par for their course, but this is especially true for the two main characters Hazel Grace and Augustus Waters of the novel The Fault in Our Stars by John Green. It is about the reality of two young teenagers facing love, life, and death in a different way than most people. The story of Hazel Grace and Augustus Waters proves and exposes the realistic lives of what people with cancer experience, the love two people can share, and the depressing truth of death. John Green was able to capture the truth behind these three phenomenons through his own personal journey with a young girl named Esther Earl in which he helped her face cancer, love, and death.

There is time when the word “cancer” is too heavy of a word for some people to pronounce, knowing people who have lost their lives to it or are suffering through it at this very moment. Imagine a person living with cancer, most people see a hairless and lifeless human being just waiting for their time. The Fault in Our Stars shows the truth behind real cancer patients and how they live their lives. Although people living with cancer may have obstacles or they are unable to do certain things all people have that challenge for something and that’s what John Green wanted to prove. Hazel Grace is 16 years old living with stage 4 thyroid cancer and has been for the past 3 years. When Hazel is first described she walks around relying on an oxygen tank, hair slowly growing in, and in need of help but further into the novel she is proved to be different. Hazel is given an opportunity to travel the across the world to go on an adventure of a life time. The first response she is given from her doctor is “Traveling in your condition will increase risks” (116,