In December, I read the book The Fault in Our Stars by John Green. I am half way done with the book. So far, the book is about a girl named Hazel who struggles with cancer. Her lungs are very weak and has a oxygen container to help her breathe. Every week she goes to a Support group filled with cancer survivors. She makes many friends there including a guy named Augustus who had cancer in his leg causing him too loose his leg and get prosthetic leg instead. Soon, the two began to fall for each other. They both love to read, but they especially loved a book called An Imperial Affliction. Hazel enjoyed reading this book for years. Augustus surprised Hazel by getting them tickets to go to Amsterdam to meet the author of An Imperial Affliction.
What I love about this book so far is how John Green uses certain words to make you feel Hazel’s pain and the things she struggles with. For example on page forty-five it says, “In truth, it always hurts. It always hurts not to breathe like a normal person, incessantly reminding your lungs to be lungs, forcing yourself to accept as solvable the clawing scraping inside-out ache of underoxygenation,” Mostly everyone takes advantage of the lungs, and this sentence makes you think about all the people like Hazel who struggle to take breaths of air.
My favorite character is Augustus. Augustus is a very sweet person and romantic person. He’s always there for Hazel whenever she isn’t doing so well. A quote to illustrate this is on page eighty-two where it says, “Augustus Walters was sitting on the front step as we pull into the driveway. He was holding a bouquet of bright orange tulips just beginning to bloom,” Augustus showed up at Hazel’s house unexpected and impressed Hazel and her parents, so he took Hazel on a fun picnic.
My favorite quote from the book is when Augustus says, “ ‘I’d always thought the would was a wish-granting factory,” This quote is significant to me because even though he is being sarcastic, it makes you think about how the world I could be a very mean place and you don’t always get what you want
