Eulogy For The Fault In Our Stars

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The Fault in Our Stars is built upon the relationship between humans and the consciousness of where our emotional effort goes to. When Augustus is close to death, he composes a eulogy to be read when Hazel passes because he knows he will not be there to read it himself. In his eulogy he talks in depth about how much of an amazing person Hazel is and how he is so grateful that she has made an impact on his life. In this he makes the observance that “what we want is to be noticed by the universe” and that each person want to make an impact on as many lives as possible. The “we” in that sentence meaning the human race and that each and every person wants to leave a mark on the world and have a living memory of themselves in as many people as possible. …show more content…
Throughout the book, Augustus struggles with the fact that he has not done much in his life that people will remember, but Hazel prides herself in the fact that she focuses her energy all on her closest family and friends for only them to remember. When Hazel and Augustus first met during the church group, Augustus says that his greatest fear is oblivion and not being remembered; Hazel argues that at some point in time there will be no one “remaining to remember anyone ever existed”(13) and that anything and everything that human beings have accomplished throughout time will be erased. Everything will vanish in time, Hazel is saying that oblivion is inevitable so oblivion is a pointless fear to have when it is a reality. This fear of oblivion carries throughout the book as death looms closer to the teenagers. Augustus talks more about oblivion and how he wished that he could have a “story worth telling” in his obituary which triggers Hazel. Hazel is the type of person who is grateful and appreciate what she has so when Augustus says that he wish he had more, it hurt her. It hurt her that he wanted more than to just be loved by her, that he wanted the world to love him when
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