The Fault in Our
Stars is the sixth novel by author John Green, published in January 2012. The title is inspired by Act
1, Scene 2 of Shakespeare’s play Julius Caesar, in which the Cassius says to Brutus: "The fault, dear Brutus, is not
in our stars, But in ourselves, that we are underlings."
In the fault in
our stars written by john green,he builds
a story out of darkness and despair.he takes the tragedy of cancer and
immerses us in the lives of charecters that couold very well be real.He brings
the story in the form aof a teen girl,hazel grace lancaster.
17 year old
hazel grace is a victim of cancer.Although a new drug has given her sufficient amount of time,it
hasn’t put her disease into remission.meanwhile her mother forces her to attend a cancer support group,
hoping that she might make a friend. Hazel loathes what she sees as the false
optimism of the group, but she attends to keep her mother happy. One afternoon,
she meets Augustus. He has been in remission since the doctors amputated his
leg, but is attending the meeting as support for his friend Isaac, who has been
told that he will soon lose another eye to cancer.
Augustus
and Hazel are drawn to each other almost immediately, and Hazel visits his
house after watching a movie. Hazel, an
deep reader, tells Augustus about her favorite book, An Imperial Affliction, a
story about a teenage girl with cancer. Hazel relates herself to the book's main character, Anna, in every
way. Not only does Anna have cancer. The great draw of the book, however, is
that it doesn't conclude. The story just ends.Hazel felt all empty with the
end.
Hazel
surmises that it's to show that Anna became too ill to write, or died. But the
ending has always plagued her. She wants to know what happened to the other
characters in the book. Augustus promises to read the book and gives her his
favorite book in return. It's a novel based on his favorite video game.
Augustus and Hazel soon become close friends. Together they help their friend
Isaac get through the pain of his girlfriend leaving him and the loss of his
sight. After reading An
Imperial Affliction, Augustus becomes obsessed with finding the
author, Peter Van Houten, so they can know what happened to the other characters.They
started the search for the author.
Hazel
tries to keep Augustus at a safe distance because she knows she is dying. She
considers herself a time bomb and doesn't want to hurt anyone when she
explodes. Augustus, however, is committed to Hazel, so much so that he tracks
down Van Houten through his assistant's email address. The author responds,
which prompts Hazel to write him so she can ask him her questions. Van Houten
responds several days later. He regrets to inform Hazel that he won't answer
her questions in a letter or such conversation for fear she might try to write
a upshot to his story. He tells her that if she is ever in Amsterdam,
where he now resides, she could visit him.
Several
days later, Augustus tells Hazel that he has contacted the Wish Factory, an
organization that helps grant the wishes of sick children. They agrees to send
Augustus, Hazel and a responsible adult to Amsterdam to meet Van Houten.
Before
they can leave on their trip, Hazel's lungs fill with fluid, and she is taken
to the hospital. Unconscious for several days, she wakes up in the intensive
care unit. But the good news is that Hazel's latest scans show no new tumor
growth.. More good news arrives when her doctors give her the OK to fly to
Amsterdam.
On
the following day of their trip,they took a cab to Van houten’s appartment but the author didn't know of their coming
and doesn't welcome their visit. His assistant, Lidewij, had set the visit up,
hoping to persuade her employer out of his self-imposed exile.
Van
Houten is rude and aggressive to the
teenagers, refusing to answer their questions for the sheer reason that his
characters aren't real. They don't continue to exist after the book is
finished. Their story ended with the death of Anna. He has never imagined what
happened to them later. He then trivialize them saying that they are only
living because others pity them and pay for their treatments.
Augustus
and Hazel leave the house angry and upset. Lidewij follows them out, after
having resigned her position as Van Houten's assistant. She brings the children
to Anne Frank's house and pays for their admission. The house has no elevators,
so Hazel must lug her oxygen tank up a pile of stairs. The exhaustion she
suffers is worth it as she and Augustus share their first kiss at the end of
the exhibit. The other tourists around them cheered.
Hazel
and Augustus return to their hotel .After breakfast the following morning, they go out for a walk where he tells her that
his cancer has returned and is attacking every part of his body. They return
home where Augustus immediately begins the chemotherapy treatments. Isaac
visits and tells them he hasn't heard from his former girlfriend since the
operation that took his sight..
Days
past and Augustus' health quickly declines. As his death draws closer, he asks
Hazel to meet him one night at the church where the support group meets. It is
after hours and no one is there but Augustus and Isaac. Augustus wants to hear
the eulogies that they will give at his funeral. After hearing them, he dies
eight days later.
Hazel
is shocked when Peter Van Houten attends Augustus' funeral. She and her parents
give him a ride from the grave. He tells Hazel that Augustus wrote to him after
they'd left Amsterdam. Because Van Houten still acts odd, Hazel makes him get
out of the car.
Several
days later, Isaac asks her if Augustus ever gave her the paper he was working
on. Hazel gets in her car to drive to Augustus' house and is shocked to find
Peter Van Houten in the back seat. She tries to get him to leave, but he
insists on riding with her to Augustus' house. Along the way, he tells Hazel
about his daughter who died at age 8 of cancer.
Hazel
realizes that his daughter's death was the reason he became a miserable
alcoholic. She eventually leaves him on the side of the road. Hazel search Augustus'
computer, room and house, but can't find anything that he wrote. She eventually
figures out that he must have sent something to Van Houten. She writes Lidewij
to ask if she saw anything. Lidewij responds the following afternoon after
visiting the returned Van Houten and obtaining Augustus' letter.
It
is a eulogy for Hazel. Augustus asked Van Houten to take his words and turn
them into a worthy essay for Hazel. Van Houten told Lidewij that he could add
nothing to Augustus' words. The story ends with Hazel reading Augustus' letter.
In it, he speaks of his love for her and the way she lived her life........
The book thus inspire a millions through the life of hazel grace....
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