Novel The Fault in Our Stars by John Green

The Fault in Our Stars written by John Green is a novel based around two teenagers, one of whom has thyroid cancer (Hazel Grace) and the other osteosarcoma (Augustus Waters), and their journey upon falling in love while dealing with the realities of terminal cancer. It breaks the stereotype of most love stories with the adventure these two characters take in their battles with love and concern.  The novel introduces us to sixteen-year-old Hazel Grace Lancaster, a strikingly witty yet sophisticated teenager who has been suffering from stage four thyroid cancer since the age of thirteen. She attends a cancer-based support group only at the request of her mother, and there she encounters the infamous romantic Augustus Waters, a seventeen-year-old ex-basketball player and former amputee Sharing a common interest for the book “.

Imperial Affliction” that leaves the two dissatisfied with the ending, the two embark on a literary journey when they go to Amsterdam in search for the ending. Although coming back empty-handed> amidst everything Hazel and Augustus discover their love for one another only for it to be short-lived, due to Augustus’ impending death. An undoubtedly beautifully written and heart-warming book, I was especially moved by the tragic yet humor-filled love story between the two main characters, Hazel Grace and Augustus Waters. Despite the unavoidable fact that they were dying, the lovers spent short but sweet moments of infinities together for the sake of happiness.

One of the main challenges that they had to face was the constant fear of oblivion and the fact that the inevitable of dying would come “There will come a time when all of us are dead All of us. There will come a time when there are no human beings remaining to remember that anyone ever existed or that our species ever did anything. There will be no one left to remember Aristotle or Cleopatra, let alone you,” Hazel Grace in The Fault in Our Stars One of my favorite quotes from this book would be that of Augustus Waters, “It’s a metaphor, see. You put the killing thing right between your teeth, but you don’t give it the power to do its killing.”

Augustus Waters in The Fault in Our Stars (12) Augustus associates the killing thing which in this case is an unlit cigarette, with having power over his health hence he names it the “killing thing”, and so he puts the killing thing between his teeth, but doesn’t give it the power to control “kill him” or control him, by not lighting it. The book has really impacted me in terms of my view of life, as it has placed me in a mindset of questioning myself: “If died tomorrow, would 1 be remembered in years to come?” and “Would I make a mark on the world or would I just have been a “person“? Not only does this book make you question yourself but it also inspires you to alter the way you live and make changes for the best, just as Hazel and Augustus did as they took their cancer as a challenge to live their lives to the very fullest. The Fault in Our Stars is a beautiful, entertaining, tear-jerking and beyond-words written story that I would recommend to any passionate reader. It teaches us that life is too short for you to worry about things that you cannot change, so instead of doing so, you should live without any regrets and make your time worth it.