Chapter 15: Flights of Fancy

In The Fault In Our Stars by John Green, Hazel Grace faces deep internal struggles when she had been diagonsed with lung cancer.  Though at one point in the book, she's offered a choice, the choice to go to Amsterdam.  This may not seem important but it most entirely is.  She enters a plane, her arms outstretched.  Having forgotten for one minute that she had had cancer when she sees Amsterdam out her airplane window.  The airplane represents her freedom from cancer.  Though she had been told previously that going to Amsterdam was heavily unhealthy for her.  It represents her being able to feel free and not as if her life were to end at the drop of a dime.