Wednesday, March 18, 2015

The Fault in Our Stars by John Green

This book is about a girl named Hazel Grace who is diagnosed with lung cancer. Her mom is making her go to this kind of support group that other cancer kids go to. she thinks it is the stupidest thing known to mankind. But when she meets dreamy eyed Augustus Waters she regrets saying she doesn’t want to go to support group. At first she thought he was some freaky creep stocker who was extremely charming staring at her. But then she starts to talk to him after support group and finds out he is a survivor and that he had foot cancer. 

[SPOILER ALERT]
But slowly starts to fall in love with him he tells her that his whole body is getting infected with cancer and that he is dying. Then three weeks later he asks her for a eulogy because he wants to know what she is going to say about him in his funeral. Then he invites her for a  practice funeral for her and his friend Isaac. 

This is what Isaac said in the clean version  “Augustus Waters was a self-aggrandizing buddy. But we forgive him. We forgive him not because he had a heart as figuratively good as his literal one sucked, or because he knew more about how to hold a cigarette than any nonsmoker in history, or because he got eighteen years when he should've gotten more. I'm telling you, Augustus Waters talked so much that he'd interrupt you at his own funeral. And he was pretentious: Sweet Jesus Christ, that kid never took a sip of water without pondering the abundant metaphorical resonances of human waste production. And he was vain: I do not believe I have ever met a more physically attractive person who was more acutely aware of his own physical attractiveness. But I will say this: When the scientists of the future show up at my house with robot eyes and they tell me to try them on, I will tell the scientists to go away because I do not want to see a world without him."

The Fault in Our Stars also this is Hazels “My name is Hazel. Augustus Waters was the great star-crossed love of of my life. Ours was an epic love story, and I won't be able to get more than a sentence into it without disappearing into a puddle of tears. Gus knew. Gus knows. I will not tell you our love story, because like all real love stories, it will die with us. As it should. I'd hoped that he'd be eulogizing me, because there is no one I'd rather have. I can't talk about our love story, so I will talk about math. I am not a mathematician, but I know this. There is an infinite between 0 and 1. There's .1 and .12 and .112 and an infinite collection of others. Of course there is a bigger infinite set of numbers between 0 and 2, or between 0 and a million. Some infinities are bigger than other infinities. A writer we used to like taught us that. There are days, many days of them, when I resent the size of my unbounded set. I want more numbers than I'm likely to get, and God, I want more numbers for Augustus Waters than he got. But, Gus, my love, I cannot tell you how thankful I am for our little infinity. I wouldn't trade it for the world. You have me a forever within the numbered days, and I'm grateful."

- John green the fault in our stars. I recommend this book to everybody even animals yes its that good. The genre of this book is That no matter how a person acts or whatever everybody deserves a little infinity in their life.

Reviewed by Hadeel ~ 6th Grade

Lexile 850

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