Art of Suffering in John Green's Fault in Our Stars

Abstract

This research work, entitled “Art of Sufferingin John Green’s Fault in Our Stars”, tries to explore how Green presents the fact that death is normal and unavoidable phenomenon of our life. The research claims that death is just like our birth and just as we live life artistically, so should also accept death gracefully. It claims thatthe differently able people have their inherent or the latent talent, desires, feelings, as well as ambitions and aspirations in their lives. The differently able people should not be taken as social stigma or abnormal people as they are also normal human beings who can be happy like any other ordinary person if they are taken positively, loved and cared properly by the family, friends and society. The researcher in the research claims that by presenting characters who are different types of cancer patientsnot as disabled people but as normal human beings, Green challenges and critiques the social concept that the sick people cannot enjoy their life and they are burdens in the eyes of the society. His characters, though they are physically weak, they enjoy life in the optimum level like other normal human beings as they know the art of living and at the same time, they die happily as they know the art of suffering.