The Fault in Our Stars
Author: John Green
It is unusual theme for a novel. Well, only to me perhaps, as I had never read a novel relates to cancer before this.
There is a sentence I believe that is most remarkable — "The world is not a wish-granting factory". I hate to admit but no choice, sometimes it just does not turn out the way you want.
It is a story about a girl, Hazel Grace Lancaster, diagnosed with Stage 4 Thyroid cancer with metastasis forming in her lungs. A girl who always watch America's Next Top Model and read her favourite book, An Imperial Affliction.
She was reluctant to attend support group for children living with cancer but her mom forced her to go. Then at the support group she met Augustus Waters. The story continues with the love between them and the book "An Imperial Affliction" became the point of bonding for them.
The story is touching but sad. It is truly that "The world is not a wish-granting factory". Issac lost his eyes, Augustus's cancer had returned and died. Life is fragile.
The ending is nice. It ends with a letter written to Peter van Houten that supposed to be the sequel to the book, an epilogue that he wanted to write for Hazel. However the letter he wrote was actually a eulogy for Hazel.
Part of the letter :
"Almost everyone is obsessed with leaving a mark upon the world."
"We all want to be remembered. I do, too."
"But Van Houten: the marks humans leave are too often scars."
"People will say it's sad that she leaves a lesser scar, that fewer remember her, that she was loved deeply but not widely."
Rating : 7.0/10
