“Oh, I wouldn’t mind, Hazel Grace. It would be a privilege
to have my heart broken by you,” – John Green (this sentence makes me happy)
John Green might be
the most renowned author of our generation; most celebrated for his books Looking
for Alaska, Paper Towns,
and the reason your reading this review The
Fault in Our Stars. The Fault in Our Stars shares relation with John Green
other books as it’s a young adult novel and suspended around the ideology of
friendship and love. The basis of this book is about Hazel Grace (girl) meets
Augustus Water (boy) simple as that; boy meet girl. Oh, did I tell you they
have cancer? Hazel unexpectedly met Gus and fell in love with his persistent
and sincerity. In the span of this book they deal with the struggle of cancer, hard
love, coping with a death, and a fictional book.
In the years that cancer affected Hazel all she thinks is
death; she also talks about it as one might talk about weather. Until she meets
Gus, a very symbolism of life for Hazel Grace Lancaster. They both meet in a
Cancer Support group, and bonded over their love of books and rebellion. It’s
to happen that Hazel gives Gus her most prize book that she reads in repeat An
Imperial Affliction. The book was never truly finished as the girl who narrates
it, Anna, dies or became too sick to narrate her cancer story. Hazel and Gus
are both curious to find what happen to the character of the book; and they
both set out an adventure that you have to read.
In the book Hazel describes cancer as a side effect of life;
and life is full of pain. No one desires to have cancer, they were just the
outcome of life injustice the freaks of evolution. Another side effect of life
is death; more if it’s a significant loss of a love one that can inflict a lot
of suffering to those around you. Hazel Grace realizes this metaphor as a
grenade: “I'm a grenade and at some point I'm going to blow up and I would like
to minimize the casualties, okay?” (Green 99). What Hazel didn’t realize that
this kind of pain can’t be avoided; her pain hurts more than anything but it’s
a sign she love with all she had and she still remembered the memories (You’re
not mourning their lost you’re celebrating their existence). By doing this
Hazel also eased Gus’s fear of oblivion: that after his death his significant
will be devour by oblivion and no one will remember him. But his fear of
oblivion carried him to heroic acts and fall in love with a passive girl.
I love every of reading this book. I know the author did a
profound job of writing this book because it made me speechless and grasping
for air in every traumatic event. John Green was successfully at creating
characters that are interesting, exciting, and discerning. Reading the Fault in
Our Stars was a delightful sadness, like prickling your thumb on a rose’s
thorn. It’s witty and quirky but extremely touching and doesn’t shy on
symbolism. This book will make you appreciate life that much more and opens
your eyes to the struggle of this heartbreaking disease. I don’t think anyone
can hate this humble and thoughtful book and I have not heard one soul dislike
it either. I recommend this book to anyone able to handle good crying sessions
and fanatics annoyed with cheesy love books. If you’ve read the book that’s
great read it again, and if you haven’t I dare you to get it, and fall in to this
amazing book (you won’t regret it).
based on this book review I would want to read it because; the person who wrote the review gave me a good hook to it. It says in details what it talks about but not too much to spoil anything. It talks about love, and I love romantic stories. Also for me having cancer is hard to deal with, and I like courage. But maybe if the review could explain a little bit more, and have more citation so I can remember while I read that this and this actually happened. I do love all john green's books and this is just a sad/ but exciting to read. Even if I hav'int read the whole book, this review gave it a little more taste to actually read it, I had goosbumps just reading the review. I have read a little bit of the book, but reading the review made me want to finish it as soon as possible.
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ReplyDeleteAnonymousMay 26, 2015 at 8:37 AM
based on this book review I would want to read it because; the person who wrote the review gave me a good hook to it. It says in details what it talks about but not too much to spoil anything. It talks about love, and I love romantic stories. I Would do anything to do to be in love like the people in the book and it was a very good topic to pick about the book because it was sattisfing and should be read by anybody that wants to read a good romantic story Rate:1-10 I would give this a 9 because how good and how much info it gave me not to spoil the book for me