Personally, I don’t think there is another book that explores the topic of life and death in such a philosophical way as “The Fault in Our Stars” does. On the surface, it may just seem like another one of your cliché young adult novels, where the main characters have to fight for their love and eventually come to some grand epiphany by the end of the book. But upon deeper introspection, I’ve found that Green uses numerous literary techniques that even Wright seems to deem crucial to making a book worth reading.
One quote from the book that always finds its way back into my brain reads, “Some infinities are bigger than other infinities.” Perhaps it is the mathematical aspect of the quote that I enjoy pondering, or it may just simply strike the right chord whenever I contemplate our limited number of days. Either way around, I am almost certain that Wright would be proud to know that this book prompts reflection, even years after I initially read it. I also believe it would be unjust to talk about why “The Fault in Our Stars” is worth reading without mentioning the moral compass that the book demonstrates to us readers. I mean, for goodness sake, the book revolves around cancer. As Wright likes to put it, literature enables us to better understand man, and what better way to understand man than to see characters as they await their deathbed? Call me morbid, but I think that it is rather refreshing to read about death in a manner where one is expectant of it, as opposed to fearful.