Things are not always how people want them to be and people are not always how ones imagine them. “Apparently the world is not a wish-granting factory” (Green, 197). In the book The Fault In Our Stars written be John Green the main character is Hazel Grace Lancaster, 16 years old cancer patient, the fan of “An Imperial Affliction” book. She goes to the Support Group, where she meets Isaac, a boy with eye cancer and his friend Augustus Waters, amputee, with whom she falls in love and later goes to Amsterdam to meet Peter Van Houten, the author of “An Imperial Affliction”. Связка Hazel and Augustus realize that the world is an insensitive place because nobody remembers those who died from cancer, people treat cancer patients differently and …show more content…
First, Monica broke up with Isaac before his surgery on the eye. Isaac was explaining to Hazel why Monica broke up with him, saying: “She said she couldn’t handle it… I am about to lose my eyesight and she can’t handle it” (60). When Monica realized that her boyfriend will lose his vision, she became scared and decided not to suffer from dating a blind guy. She chose the easiest way for her – to break up with him and date a healthy guy in the future. Second, between Hazel and her friend Kaitlyn there is a big distance since Hazel got sick. When Hazel with Kaitlyn were in the mall, Kaitlyn saw one horrible pair of shoes and was wondering how it is even possible to wear them: “I mean, I would just die – and then stopped short, looking at me as if it were crime to mention death to the dying” (44). Every time Kaitlyn is talking to Hazel she is afraid to say something superfluous or anything related to cancer and the fact that her friend is dying. As a result, they are not close friends anymore. People do not understand how it feels to have cancer and when somebody they know well get this disease, they become scared and change their attitude as in Isaac and Kaitlyn