At the end of The Fault In Our Stars, Augustus Walters has died. Hazel is lost and doesn't know what to do without her best friend and lover. Hazel then reads a letter Augustus wrote to Van Houten before he passed away. In the letter, Augustus ask Van Houten, the author of a book they both loved and that had no ending, to write an ending for Hazel. Augustus talks about how when Hazel was dieing and unconscious, he visited her in the hospital room and wouldn't leave. He talks about how he wants to be remembered but the marks people make are often scars. The book ends with the last sentence of the letter. She had to speak at his funeral and it was very hard for her. Someone she cared about was gone.
Why do you think people cry/feels sad when someone close to them dies?
When you've been spending you're entire life getting to know and being around a certain person, of course it would be sad.
ReplyDeletePeople feel sad and cry when someone close dies because its a strong feeling, an emotion you can control when you love someone. Its always a big loss and that is of course a sad moment in our lives.
ReplyDeleteIts because their sense of self is attached to that person. That person may have been in their lives for a long time and so when they die, its like a part of them dies also. They have developed thought forms that tell them about themselves and part of this sense of self involves the people who are around you. The person may have been emotionally attached to that person - they had good times with them and these good times became memory (thought forms) and so they became attached to them, they didn't want them to go. This is why people cry... they don't want to let go of the form idea of themselves as a person who's sense of self was in the other person
ReplyDeletePeople feel sad or cry when someone close to them die because they have been living their life together or close. Losing someone who has been apart of your life completely changes your life, you no longer have that person in your life and there is no one to replace them.
ReplyDeleteI think it is sad because when you're used to that person being around in your life for so long, your life would change dramatically knowing that they won't be around anymore. For example, if your mom dad or brother passed away, how would you feel knowing that when you go home, one of them won't be there.
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