The Fault in Our Stars book report
In this book, John Green takes us to into a world of a sixteen year old girl’s life battling cancer and falling in love despite her views on love. The main character’s name is Hazel, who is fighting thyroid cancer. Her cancer is terminal, meaning she will die at some point in time. She says her best friends are her parents and a book called Imperial Infliction, which she claims is almost as perfect as the Bible. Her parents believe she is depressed, so they send her to a Support Group where many other cancer patients gather. One boy in the support group’s name is Isaac, who has a rare cancer in his eyes; this causing him to have one real eye and one glass eye. One day at support group, Isaac brings a boy with him, whose name is Augustus. Augustus is the boy Hazel will fall in love with. During this support group session, Hazel can’t help to notice Augustus staring at her. Augustus states he had cancer but no longer has it, but his cancer took his leg with it. By the end of the session, Augustus is trying to woo Hazel into coming to his house to see the movie ‘V for Vendetta’ because he believes Hazel looks like Natalie Portman. Hazel agrees, being oddly interested in the boy, goes to his house to see the movie. Upon arriving to his house, he begins to ask her questions about herself—her story, her likes, her dislikes. He then asks her what her favorite book is. She is afraid to share this detail with him because she believes if she tells him ‘Imperial Affliction’ it won’t be “her” book anymore. Despite her doubts, she tells him and he oddly enough wants to read it and states she’ll have to read a book that he has chosen for her while he reads ‘Imperial Affliction.’ For a few days after this moment, Hazel hears nothing from Augustus, until she finishes the book he has given her. She calls him and he begins to rave about ‘Imperial Affliction.’ The book becomes dry for the next few chapters but throughout that time, Augustus and Hazel grow closer. The book has also bloom a love between them. Augustus, still having his cancer wish, wants to spend it on traveling to Amsterdam to meet the author of ‘Imperial Affliction.’ Hazel is baffled that he wants to do that for her; that is where she begins to realize she is falling in love with him. The wish fairies, as Augustus calls them, grant this wish, and they begin to plan for Amsterdam. While planning, Hazel goes through a stage where she almost dies and is in the hospital for days; this scares Augustus and he believes he’s going to lose the one he loves before he even tells her how he feels. Hazel survives the rough patch and within a few weeks, she, her mother, and Augustus are boarding a plane to Amsterdam. On the plane, Augustus states he is in love with Hazel and her only reply is,” Augustus…” When arriving, Amsterdam is greater than they expected. Each day is new and different until they met Peter Van Houten, the author of ‘Imperial Affliction.’ Peter ends up being a no good drunk who tells them nothing they wanted to know, this leaves them disappointed and baffled at what they have just dealt with. The day before they leave to head back home in Indiana, Augustus states before he left, he had a PET scan and he “lit up like a Christmas tree” meaning his cancer is back. Hazel is devastated, afraid that he could die. When they arrive back home, Augustus gets worse and worse by the day. Hazel has comes to terms that he is going to die and she is going to lose her love, but it truly doesn’t hit her till the pre funeral Augustus has created himself. Hazel reads her eulogy aloud to him and she breaks out into tears. Augustus was her piece of forever. Eight days later, he dies. As time passes after his death, Isaac, his friend, states how Augustus began to write a sequel to ‘Imperial Affliction’ for her. She searches everywhere for it until it hits her that he sent it to Peter Van Houten. Peter willing emails it to her and she reads the little piece of perfection Augustus has written for her. The book ends with Augustus saying he liked his choices of falling in love with her and that he hoped she liked hers too. She says,” I do, Augustus, I do.”