I
would love to hear any criticism but please be gentle with me as this
is my first blog post, I aspire I be a journalist and I this is just
another way to challenge myself.
I
have been waiting until I could form a coherent thought in re The
Fault in Our Stars; I witnessed the most beautiful and mesmerising
adaptation of the book at the advanced showing of TFIOS on the 12th
of June (2014) and ever since I feel the encouraging emptiness that
the book has left me with grow rapidly, forcing me to live my life and be
happy!
Let me just rewind back to when I first discovered the captivating and overwhelming book that is THE FAULT IN OUR STARS. While reading it I could feel my perspective on life shift and I found myself questioning my existence. “What did I want to achieve?”, “Am I making the most out of my life?” and most importantly I pondered “What can I do in order to help people be happy?”. It took me just under four hours to finish the book; I was completely hooked and wanted to finish reading in order to know if Hazel Grace was okay as I fully lost myself within her character.
My mum later laughed at me because I didn't move or speak to anyone for four hour straight. All I did was sit on the sofa reading, crying, laughing and shouting “NOOOOOOOO this can't happen”, “NOOOOOO John Green you can not do this!”
Once I had finished the book, I truly could not make a coherent thought so I led on my dull grey floor and procrastinated for hours before dinner, allowing all of the miss placed jigsaw pieces that I should call my thought battle it out in order to be pushed to the forefront of my mind. “Why is life so unfair?” “Why did that have to happen?” The reality of life and death really hit me, it may sound completely ridiculous but I felt as if I had personally lost someone important in my life and I just could not break free from the hypnotising emptiness caused by the loss of fictional character. I know I sound crazy but I have a tendency to get overly attached to fictional characters due to the fact I use books as a escapism.
My love for this novel is irrevocable and I am so pleased to say the film portrayed the book magnificently; some film adaptations can portray books negatively... but this...wonderful, amazing, beautiful and sensational story narrated by Hazel Grace Lancaster a 16 girl old girl who suffers with Thyroid cancer is brought to life in the most special and touching way it possible could have been.
As I mentioned earlier while reading the book I completely allowed the story to take over all of my senses and I allowed myself to connect with Hazel Grace while sympathising with the roller coaster emotions she tries to understand throughout the novel. I, myself can not fully understand the cancer element of her life due to the fact I don't actually have cancer but I can sympathise with her on a teenage girl level; I have been on the perplexing journey of self discovery and faced challenges such as letting people me in.
I am so grateful to every single person that made the film adaptation as perfect as it is and of course I admire and appreciate the spectacular writing of John Green. If you haven't read the book or seen the film then I profoundly recommend you go do it...NOW! Okay...okay....the exclamative maybe is not the way to end this entry, so let me just say...Please go and open your mind the exquisite novel/film that is 'The Fault in Our Stars'.
I obviously don't own these pictures they are just beautiful so I am borrowing them... the ones below represent how I acted while watching the movie...
