The Fault in Our Stars (Jonathan Quintana)

Title of Book: The Fault in Our Stars
 Author: John Green
 # of Pages 313
 Star Rating: ☆☆☆☆
 Why This Book has Value:

The Fault in Our Stars is a love story between two cancer patients, Hazel Grace Lancaster, and Augustus Water. They meet at Support group that Hazel has to go to because of her depression. Augustus and Hazel are immediately drawn to each other. Hazel has a book that she reads over and over again called An Imperial Affliction. She has always wanted to meet the author of the book, Peter Van Houten, to get some unanswered questions about what happens when the book ends in mid-sentence. She tells Augustus about the book. He tells Hazel that he is going to read the book. He also gives Hazel a book in return. When Augustus finishes the book, he equally loves the book and has a desire to meet Peter Van Houten. Augustus had a Wish that he never used when he had cancer. He told Hazel that he was going to use the Wish to go to Amsterdam. And so it was to be. They were going to go to the place where they could get answers to all of their questions. They arrive in Amsterdam where a lot of things go down. I will not spoil it for the people who haven’t read it. When they return to America, things take a turn for the worse. I will also leave it up to you guys to see what happens.

This book is valuable for many reasons. For one, the way John Green portrays the characters is relatable to the real world. He makes it sound like Hazel and Augustus are real people and are living in the real world. It is also a book filled with all of the emotions. For a book to be valuable, it has to portray all the emotions. Joy, anger, sadness, etc. are all used in the Fault in Our Stars. It is a book on fighting a world-wide disease and the realization of death and suffering. We get to see a glimpse of what people with cancer have to go through. It is valuable because it shows encouragement, happiness, and joy even in the darkest of time of cancer. It helps people with cancer get through it better or encourages them to live life to the fullest and not to let their disease control their life. There are many things that can be done, even if they have stage IV cancer. Their life is not over until it’s over. It is a unique love story. That is another reason it is valuable. It is not like Cinderella or Snow White where the princesses are perfectly healthy and are saved by their perfect prince Charming. They were both sick and they had things wrong with them, but it was love. They both didn’t care what was wrong with each other. I think his book could be a classic now.