The Fault in Our Stars, a Novel by John Green
John Green’s The Fault in Our Star is a novel about Hazel Grace Lancaster, a seventeen year old girl with thyroid cancer who carries a portable oxygen tank because the cancer has spread to her lungs. She goes to a support group at her mom’s request. At one of the meetings, she meets Augustus Waters, a seventeen year old boy who is now cancer but had to get his leg removed. They go to Amsterdam together to meet Hazel’s favorite author ,Hazel starts realizing that she really likes Augustus, but she knows that if she died she will hurt Augustus. In the middle of her struggle with Augustus in Amsterdam, Augustus tells Hazel that he had a body scan and reveals that his cancer has spread to his whole body.
She realized that she isn’t the grenade, he is; she also realizes that she loves him, Augustus dies eight days later due to the weakening of cancer. Some strengths of this book are that it’s really easy to understand and it really is a tearjerker. This book also have very great messages for the readers like , “You don’t get to choose if you get hurt in this world,,,but you do have some say in who hurts you I like my choices”. This book is great for those who are into romance, drama novels, but it’s not your typical love story, This book really emphasizes how short life ist.
There aren’t many weaknesses for this book except for the fact that John Green includes unnecessary things like including Augustus’s friend, Isaac’s girlfriend into the story The story would still remain the same without her, This novel is appropriate for tenth graders. Both Augustus and Hazel are intelligeute teens so the vocabulary really expandst For example, “”My thoughts are stars I can’t fathom into constellations”(261). It teaches readers that life is too short and it also teaches readers to enjoy life while one still cant. Some weaknesses however, this might not be a good book for readers who have a close experience with cancer because it’s a little too much.
The message in this novel is life’s too short to be scared and doing the same daily things. The message is a really important life lesson, because people never know when it can be the last day of their life, so might as well do new and different things whenever they can. For example, Hazel‘s lungs filled up with fluids and a group of doctors said she wasn’t able to travel to Amsterdam because she was too weak, but a physician very familiar with her case said to go because she should live her life. If you are considering reading this book, be prepared to laugh, cry and to be speechless Overall, this book is a really great book, it is a really interesting love story.
Also, I recommend having a box of tissues when reading this novel, especially when Augustus says cute, things to Hazel like, “I’m in love with you, and I know that love is just a shout into the void, and that oblivion is inevitable, and that we’re all doomed and that there will come a day when all our labor has been returned to dust, and I know the sun will swallow the only earth we’ll ever have, and I am in love with your” Overall. The Fault in Our Stars is a wonderful book, that would have the reader reading it over and over again. The book has sad moment, delightful moment, dry humor , and it will leave reads speechless.
