Post #3: text to text connections

I can relate the book The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight and The Fault in Our Stars by in both books the plots and themes are very similar. In The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight plot there is a girl named Hadley that struggles through a problem which is being forced to go to her father's wedding and meeting her new step mother after ignoring him for the past year. While she is traveling to London she ends up meeting a guy along the way named Oliver. In The Fault in Our Stars plot there is a girl named Hazel that struggles through a problem which is battling cancer and facing reality of death. To help her go through this her mother decides that the best way for her to make friends is to join a cancer support group where she ends up meeting a guy named Augustus. In both books both of the main characters meet their lover in an unexpected place in the book, making it like a coincidence. Like how Hadley meets Oliver by accident because if she wasn't late for her plane to London she would have never had to take the next flight which was the flight Oliver was taking. For Hazel if her mother never ended up making her go to a cancer support group she would have never met Augustus. In both books each main character ends up falling in lover with their guy instantly.

The books a common theme that is in both of them is love can overcome obstacles. In The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight When Hadley is at the wedding she over hears a conversation that talks about a place that Oliver was going to go to for his wedding. Even though she is at her father’s wedding she immediately takes off to go search for him. This represents the theme example that both books have in common because for Hadley her father's wedding was the obstacle that she was trying to overcome. When she was about to leave Oliver she talks about how she will try to see him again even if she has her father’s wedding. On the plane Oliver was telling her how brave she was for going to her father's wedding. Oliver says "I think it's brave. What? That you're going. That you’re facing up to it. That you're moving on. It's brave."(pg 72).

For The Fault in Our Stars even though Hazel has cancer she spends all her time while she is alive with Augustus. He teaches her that cancer isn't just a disease and you should look as life as a gift not as a challenge that is holding you back from what you want to do. But when she finds out that Augustus is going to die. She tries to make the best of it by helping him with his funeral. This represents the theme because even though Hazel and Augustus are both battling cancer their love for each other doesn't stop them from doing the things that they want. In the book Augustus uses him wish to go to amster damn because Hazel really wants to even though Hazel is fighting cancer and has to bring an oxygen tank with her.

http://tfiossupportgroup.com/ Link to The Fault in our Stars Fanbase page, I would suggest to check it out! :)