The pain that demands to be left.

The Fault In Our Stars.

Brook, is eternal but we humans are transient.

Should we take it as a boon or a bane?Well, actually both! When Brook can be eternal, he doesn't have the  heart ,he  can't think nor can he experience any abstract. The other way around, we consider transience as bane,don't we? It will occur to us at the age of wisdom that being transient isn't a bane.

The book titled "The Fault in Our Stars" is inspired by Shakespeare's play Julius Caesar, in which the nobleman Cassius says to Brutus: "The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, / But in ourselves, that we are underlings.(credits: author, Wikipedia)

This book shows the other side of the world ,lesser known and familiarizes us with the life of a cancer child.

The book is narrated by a teenage girl, Hazel who thinks that  she  was the alpha and the omega of her parents’ suffering. Hazel is suffering from malignant pleural effusion(A type of cancer where the lungs fill up with fluid).

Everyone decides their future! Or at least dreams one , but this girl here knows that life is different for her. Reading this excerpt will bring  tears down your eyes.

We bought a plot in Crown Hill, and I walked around with my dad one day and picked out a spot. And I had my whole funeral planned out and everything, and then right before the surgery.

Hazel's experience taught her that, 

the world is  not a wish-granting factory.'.

Hazel is greatly moved by a book titled ' An imperial affliction'. The book was on a girl in her teen's, named Anna who suffered from cancer. No wonder  why Hazel could connect with this story. But the story ends abruptly with Anna's death. Hazel read this book over thousand times. She was really curious on what had happened to the rest of the characters. Hazel wanted to know what had happened to Anna's mother, the hamster,the Dutch con man. The author was  PETER VAN HOUTEN. Hazel
e-mailed this man a million times but alas! no reply from him.

She'd learnt that this guy has settled in Amsterdam. Hazel only wished to learn the complete story before her death. she'd discussed this with her boyfriend Augustus. Augustus Waters hijacked his last wish for Hazel. They went to Amsterdam, to meet the author of the book only to get disappointed. 

You are a side effect” , Van Houten continued, “of an evolutionary process that cares little for individual lives. You are a failed experiment in mutation.”

Later in the story Augustus reveals the truth about how he had earlier lied to Hazel that he had no sign of cancer from last 14 months. He was suffering from osteosarcoma which caused him to loose his right leg.

Augustus wanted a serious relationship with Hazel.He conned her into believing that she was falling in love with a 

healthy person.

Augustus dies nearly a month after returning from Amsterdam.

People can't digest this.

Eighty percent survival rate and he’s in the twenty percent? Bullshit. He was such a bright kid. It’s bullshit.

Hazel, of all people knew that  it was possible to live with pain.

Hazel learns that Augustus was not writing a sequel to An Imperial Affliction like he told her, but an obituary for her, and reads it after Lidewij (Van Houten's Personal Assistant) discovers it amidst Van Houten’s letters. It states that getting hurt in this world is unavoidable, but we do get to choose whom we allow to hurt us, and that he is happy with his choice, and hopes she likes hers too. The book closes with Hazel stating that she is happy with her choice.

JOHN GREEN

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