Sunday, 6 November 2016

5 - The Fault in our Stars

Green, John. "The Fault In Our Stars", New York : Dutton Childrens Books, 2012.

A story of yet another terminally ill girl, Hazel Grace Lancaster is sent by her mother to a support group and there she meets Augustus Waters, a boy she slowly falls in love with. Together they go on a journey to visit the author of Hazel's favorite book, who lives in Amsterdam.
Hazel has stage 4 Thyroid cancer and 'Gus' has Osteosarcoma, which he eventually dies of. While his health was deteriorating, Hazel and Gus's best friend, Isaac, read out eulogies that they had each written for him.
At Gus's funeral, she is overcome by grief and angry at him for dying, but decides to deliver a different eulogy than the one she wrote for him, in an effort to comfort his parents who were the ones suffering the most.

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