Are you impressed somewhere after reading a book? After reading the book « The Fault in Our Starts » and listening to the teacher’s lectures, I was impressed by the swimming city of Amsterdam, which is said to be a city of freedom and sin. It is famous for its excessive freedom and that freedom itself creates sin. According to John Green’s book « The Fault in Our Stars » « When the taxi driver said Amsterdam was like a tree ring, the more we walked into the center, the more classic it was and on another page Hazel said it was reckless when her mother let a 16-year-old daughter go with a boy 17-year-old in a city of freedom » (156/159). So those two sentences are relevant and Hazel’s mom’s decision is just a reckless or some other reason. The children are thought to be mature at 18 and there are many places that are 19, but Hazel is only 16 and Augustus is only 17 but they can hang out together in a city deemed free and guilty. Perhaps due to the classic of the city makes children even younger but makes them more mature, helping them grow bigger when they come to this city, and that’s part of the reason for the outing between Hazel and Gus. On the other hand, the main reason for that decision lies in Hazel’s illness, because of that disease, she has something more special than everyone else such as a haft of birthday and more specifically here is more freedom. normal person. When it comes to freedom and sin, I think of existentialism in which individuals are free and responsible for their own decisions. With many comments I read from the book, Augustus is said to be an existentialism. Some stories in the story make it clear that before he left Amsterdam, he said « because it is my life, mom. It belongs to me » (139), he wants to decide for himself whether it is wrong or right, he affirms his life with his mother who gave him life. He controlled life to death, he knew what he needed when he died like buying a piece of land in a cemetery and making a beautiful outfit for his funeral. even the title of the book speaks to the existentialism « The Fault in Our Starts », the sin mentioned in the title of the book was not due to someone or something written, It is our decision that we make. The summary of existentialism is best expressed through the actions, decisions and words of Augustus.
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