Novel Excerpt

The Fault In Our Stars
By John Green

“I kept saying ‘always’ to her today, ‘always always always,’ and she just kept talking over me and not saying it back. It was like I was already gone, you know? ‘Always’ was a promise! How can you break the promise?”  ~ Isaac, John Green, "The Fault in Our Stars"

... Force was used to destroy many basketball awards on "The Night of the Broken Trophies". Isaac is devastated when his girlfriend, Monica, breaks a promise of staying with him 'always' and loving him 'always' due to the fact that he is going blind as a result of eye cancer. Isaac's trust in Monica through the upholding of their promise is broken when she ignored his pleas of the word while breaking up with him. This source seems to show the weakness that trust can have rather than the power it can have, to relate to one of my quotes, “to be trusted is a greater compliment than to be loved”, as although you can be loved by a person, you may not be trusted by that same person. It was clear to me while reading "The Fault in Our Stars" that the relationship between Isaac and Monica was not a strong one. Their promise of 'always' seemed to set their relationship up for failure, as all relationships end, in breakup, divorce or death.  Though these two characters may have loved each other a great deal while together, the broken promise added insult to injury when Monica broke up with Isaac. Through the promise of 'always', Isaac and Monica strengthened their trust in one another while together, but weakened it in the long run, and inevitably destroyed any trust they shared at the strike of a disaster...