The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars
But in ourselves
Yes, you’re probably right. The Fault in Our Stars is not just any typical cheesy romance story that you come across on Wattpad every day. It’s not some cliché teen fiction where two teens fall for each other at first sight and they live happily ever after. In this book, there is no happily ever after. Well, maybe there is. The Fault in Our Stars is the first and latest cancer book I’ve read, and unlike other books, it did not exactly sympathize cancer patients on the whole, but it treated cancer as if it weren’t a bad thing. Well, that’s probably thinking on the optimistic side of everything. Before I read this book, I’ve never thought that some patients didn’t want to be sympathized. Not that I’ve never been a patient in a hospital before. I’ve got my bones on the arm broken, but that was all. It was fixed and it’s good now.
People often stereotyped cancer patients as dull people who did not have an optimistic view of life, and I quote, a ‘side effect of dying’. Or rather, emo people who wanted to end their life, and they deserved more special attention. It has never occurred to me that those people, they just want to be treated like a normal person sometimes.
I’ve never known about cancer much. I only know that it’s what you call when there’s abnormal cell divide inside your body. That was in biology. I’ve never met a person with cancer. My piano teacher got a benign tumor and that’s it. Right now you’re probably wondering, what is this book about? It’s a teen fiction story about two star-crossed lovers, namely Hazel Grace Lancaster and Augustus Waters. At this point, I’m going to stop and tell you why they’re ‘star-crossed’. Hazel is a sixteen-year-old who has Thyroid cancer with metastasis forming in her lungs and Gus is a seventeen-year-old, a former basketball player who lost his leg to osteosarcoma. They fall in love.
No, not that fast. They met at a cancer support group, where Gus was NEC- no evidence of cancer and Hazel still had cancer. After Hazel got better, Gus’s osteosarcoma developed again and later Gus died. Which basically sums up everything.
What surprised me most was that Hazel did not break down when Gus died. Sure, she was sad, angry and unhappy, but I thought that she dealt with the whole situation really well. She didn’t break down mentally and leave a scar on her heart. She understood the whole situation very thoroughly. What I thought about this book, despite all the good comments, was that some of it was quite hard to read and to understand, especially the conversation between Hazel and Gus.
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