Theme: The Fault in Our Stars

                The title is derived from a line of Shakespeare's play, Julius Ceasar: "The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves, that we are underlings."   Growing up, I have always heard the saying "the stars are well aligned for you!" or something of that sense.  The truth is the stars do not matter.  It is not our fate that is a fault.  It instead is ourselves.  Our own weakness, pain, impatience.  I believe John Green would change the wording of this because the book shows us the fault in Hazel’s fate.  Hazel did nothing to deserve her fate and yet, the “stars” were not aligned in her favor.  In Hazel’s case, the fault was in the stars and John Green is simply writing in the book just why the fault is in the stars, contrary to the line from the play.  I believe he picked the title of this book for Esther, which as shown in the video, means “star.”  He wrote the book based on the life of the late Esther Earl, a beautiful young lady with cancer.  The book is based on the faults of Esther and how she faced those faults with a brave, open heart.  For the story, this means that fate can control our lives but what we chose to do with that is up to us.