Cancer For the Upper Class

I just saw it again and they were definitely fighting for money. When Hazel first says she wants to go to Amsterdam Mrs Lancaster says they can't afford the trip.
So it was very much an issue, although not the focus.

And so what if it's "upper class" as you calls it, which it isn't.
They are a typical Middle-class American family. Again, so what? That doesn't make cancer any less worthy?

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Dear Leisha,

Get over yourself. You are NOT a special snowflake. You are a ludicrously self-centered irrational human being who thinks EVERYTHING in this world should be from your point of view. There are plenty of movies about how poor people struggle in life. What's hilarious about you that prevents me from taking anything you say seriously is that it probably never once occurred to you that if he tells the story from the perspective YOU think it should be that we'd be leaving out a ton of other segments of society, but I guess that would be okay with you, because you are the only one that matters, right little snowflake?

I'm sorry if you are incapable of realizing that ANY story, movie, book can really only come from the perspective of a small segment and that it would be virtually impossible to be inclusive of everything. The book was written because Mr. Green wanted to tell a story about one unique perspective that really didn't focus on economics. Bringing financial struggles into it would have made this a completely different story altogether. Who's to say they weren't hurting financially and we didn't know because the parents wouldn't talk to Hazel about that. Just because it wasn't the focus, didn't mean it wasn't there, it just wasn't the story he wanted to tell.

Fine if you don't like it but for you to get bent out of shape because it didn't happen to be YOUR special little perspective is ridiculous. If you want a story about how a poor person deals with the financial pitfalls of cancer than YOU write one. Who do you think you are that you have the right to insist what someone else's story should be about? I bet you criticize anyone who has more money than you for being so selfish and self-centered while failing to realize you are exactly the same, but that's usually how it works.