The Fault in Our Stars...
I feel so heavy and faint and dizzy. Maybe that is due to the amount that this book makes you cry. The Fault in Our Stars by John Green, I was recommended to you all to read. I started reading this book about 13 hours ago, and I have cried much of the time reading it. The story is beautiful in its own metaphoric way as the characters explore the metaphors of life, health and love. I had said to my self “we really must blog, we’ve been saying we will for a couple of days” but yet I hadn’t got round to actually writing something, blogging soon" I'd been saying this for a couple of days until today; about a chapter before the end of the book, I need to write something, I needed to blog. Urgently I turned on my computer to beat the keys, to discuss with myself the love between the pages of this blissful metaphoric novel. As a young adult, I would say I wouldn’t really know what love really feels like, or how to notice it. I mean we all relationships that end, some badly and some on equal terms but never do you really understand what we are actually feeling. At such a young age people say, 'it's puppy love' or 'you are too young to be in love' ; but really is there an age too young to be in love? Lust is a different thing, compassion is another, wanting someone for company, or affection, or intimacy is also something different. Love is a huge thing, and it is a huge emotion and for someone to admit they love another is a brave thing.
There are too main feelings expressed through this novel; one is Fear and the other Love. To feel so comfortable with someone, and to want to make them happy, and to be able to admit that you actually love that person. I have never, and as cliché as it does sounds, I would love to feel love. One day, as we all follow stories, one day the prince and princess marry, they live happily ever after but how often does that actually happen?.
The novel is an insight into the lives of three close teenagers all have either suffered or are suffering from cancer and a very young age. Two of these fall so deep in love with each other that reading their lives and illness becomes almost unbearable for the reader but due to the strong emotional connection between the characters and the reader, the reader can not help but continue reading! We all sort of wish that we can become something that will the best for someone, for that someone we love, the everything that they ever wanted, but maybe its just being ourselves that lead us into feeling we are in love. Are we in love with ourselves, do you love the person you become while loving this person?! Is that the foundation's mission of love, loving ourselves? The Fault in Our Stars inhabits the lives of two cancer suffers in the deepest of love, which ends suddenly. They are connected to one another by a novel which they both read, both find some deep connection too. Like the novel written by a famous author that connects them at the beginning of the book, us as readers feel so emotionally connected to these characters as the characters do to the novel that connects them to one another, the connection between us and the teenagers so strong that I feel guilty, as I reader we feel guilty for not having the power to take hold of their lives and mould them around each others. We feel so much sympathy for them, we begin to love them. The book is bliss and so so heart wrenching but so gorgeous in its metaphors.
I know, I must sound completely insane. I would recommend anyone to read this just of the pure love that is betrayed. It is beautiful.
Much Love x
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