The Fault In Our Stars – John Green

 The Fault In Our Stars is about a 16-year old girl named Hazel Grace. Hazel loves to read, particularly “Imperial Affliction” wrote by Peter Van Houten. She loves the book because it’s about the reality and it reminds her of herself: a girl diagnosed with cancer. “Imperial Affliction” ends, when the main character dies, but Hazel is very dedicated to know what happens with all her nearest.

Hazel has incurable lung cancer, and spends all her time at home by herself. Her everyday life is all about staying home, breathing, lay in her bed, read the same book over and over again, thinking way too much about death and watch bad tv. But one day Hazel’s mother decides, to join Hazel into a self-help group for young people with cancer. Hazel is not happy about it at all, but she agrees to give it a chance. In the self-help group she meets the 17-year old boy called Augustus Waters, which is diagnosed with bone cancer. Therefore his leg has been amputated from the knee and down. It’s not long before, Hazel falls for Augustus charm, and his amazing looks and from this point Hazels life changes significant.

Together with Augustus, Hazel discovers that even though you’re diagnosed with cancer, and know that you’re going to die because of it, it doesn’t mean that you can’t live life to the fullest.

Augustus and Hazel ends up finding the author, Peter Van Houten, and travels to Amsterdam together, to get Hazels questions answered.

But their romance doesn’t last long. Augustus dies of an infection. At Augustus funeral Peter Van Houten arrives with a letter for Hazel from Augustus that tells her, what Augustus thought of Hazel and how much he loved her.

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