Fault in Our Stars

 

    

This book follows the main character Hazel, as she battles cancer. Hazel was not just only trying to live a normal 16 year life, but also struggled thinking about how her parent’s life would be after she pasted a way. As she attended church support groups for cancer survivor, she met a boy named Augustus. Augustus had a type of cancer that caused him to lose his leg and wear a fake one, it also had a high death rate than Hazels.

From the first glance Hazel and Augustus were nearly inseparable.  Their relationship ended up being in Hazel’s favorite book called An Imperial Affliction. She made Augustus read it, but in return he asked her to read the book that was based on his favorite video game. Hazel could relate to the main character in her book Anna because, Anna had a rare blood cancer. Both of them ended up having a bond over the book because they both had desires to find out how the story ends, but the author stopped the book before providing conclusion on what happened to each character.

            Being the sweet person that Augustus was, he searched for the author to provide the answers that they needed. He even used a wish foundation to fly him and her to Amsterdam where the author lived to talk to him in person. While Hazel is the one that might be dyeing, Augustus ends up telling Hazel that at his recent cat-scan, the doctors found out that his entire body was filled with cancer. As Hazel found this out she spent the last few months caring and loving for him every day.

            I truly loved how this book was written. The words were so well chosen that they drew you closer to the book, and had you think about not only the characters but also actually people in the world that are having to go through situations like these. It just really makes you think that life is too short to worry about the small things and also life is not promised to anyone. Another thing about this book that I liked was the fact that they both stuck by each other sides through the good and the bad. There was never a time where they questioned their love for one another. That's what you could consider true love!

            I must say I have a witnessed a few close people to me who have had to battle some type of cancer. It’s hard to know that someone you care about is not feeling OK and to know that their life could be cut short is scary. But, truthfully the people that I have been around that were really sick had so much faith and they had such a strong back bone. Even though they were sick they always tried and keep a smile on their face even when the road got rocky.

 Something that stuck out to me while reading this book was when Hazel said, "You gave me a forever within the numbered days, and I'm grateful."(page 260) It was just something about this that got to me. I think it’s the fact that she was so in love with Augustus, but she was still happy even though she was going through so much with her cancer. At the same time, we as people don't stop and think about how lucky we are at times and be grateful for the life that we have even though times get rough and things don't go our way we really should just take a second and say, "Someone could be worse off than me," and be grateful and fortune that we still are able to see another day.