Insightful, bold, irreverent, and raw, The Fault in Our Stars brilliantly explores the funny, thrilling, and tragic business of being alive and in love. Click here to purchase from Rakuten Kobo I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, then all at once.ĭespite the tumour-shrinking medical miracle that has bought her a few years, Hazel has never been anything but terminal, her final chapter inscribed upon diagnosis.īut when a gorgeous plot twist named Augustus Waters suddenly appears at Cancer Kid Support Group, Hazel's story is about to be completely rewritten. She gives a sentimental eulogy at his funeral because it comforts his parents, and she faces life after Augustus more openly.Also available on eBook for £4.99. She realizes that the pain she once tried to save Augustus from-of loving someone only to lose them to cancer-is worth suffering for the experience of true love, and that their relationship was limited in time but limitless in depth of feeling. Hazel is overcome by grief but also strengthened by it.

Hazel stays by Augustus’ side as he deteriorates physically, emotionally, mentally, and finally dies in the hospital after a month of suffering from pain medication.

Afterwards though during their climb up the Anne Frank House (which was very hard work) while talking things over together, something exciting happens: Hazel impulsively kisses Augustus on top of one of its buildings! And then later back at their hotel room…they have sex for the first time!Īugustus tells Hazel that his cancer has returned and spread throughout his body. He also mocks them for even wanting answers about his novel’s plotline, which makes things awkward between all three of them as they leave his house in disgust afterwards from such an unpleasant encounter with him there. In Amsterdam, Hazel and Augustus share an intimate evening together before meeting up with their literary idol on this trip-Peter Van Houten-who turns out to be drunk and mean towards them because he doesn’t want anyone asking him questions about his book or characters that could spoil it for readers like himself. An Imperial Affliction is sacred book to Hazel she identifies with the heroine Anna who dies from leukemia and wants answers about what happens after it ends.

Their relationship develops when they take a trip to Amsterdam funded by the Genie Foundation (a fictional equivalent of Make-A-Wish), where Augustus arranges for Hazel to meet her favorite author Peter Van Houten, who has agreed by email to discuss his only book An Imperial Affliction with them in person. The two of them meet each other at a Cancer Kid Support Group where they share the same interests. They’re both in remission, but they’ve been dealt a bad hand with their conditions. However, they both know that she is dying so he tries his hardest to win her over despite her hesitation because she doesn’t want anyone else to suffer when she dies like her parents did after losing another child “I’m a grenade”.Ī young girl named Hazel and her friend Augustus are cancer patients. They fall in love immediately due to their mutual intelligence and skepticism of the adult world’s attempt to hide reality from them. Hazel has thyroid cancer that’s spread to her lungs and Augustus had bone cancer which cost him a leg. Hazel Lancaster, age 16, and Augustus Waters, age 17, meet at a support group for teens with cancer. Instead, this book shows that love can be both scary and painful. This book rejects the common clichés of cancer narratives, which often glorify suffering and loss as noble and redemptive. John Green’s novel The Fault in Our Stars is about a love story between two teenagers who meet in a cancer support group. 1-Page Summary of The Fault In Our Stars Overall Summary

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