The fault in our stars

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Probably some people won’t understand that, but if you’ve read The Fault in Our Stars you will… It’s kind of a promise between the characters.

                         

This is a story about a sixteen year-old girl named Hazel Grace Lancaster. She is diagnosed with Stage 4 thyroid cancer with metastasis forming in her lungs. She loves to read, and quote philosophers and also a fan girl of her favorite book "An Imperial Affliction",

Her parents sent her to a support group for children living with cancer, that’s exactly the place where she meets August Waters (Gus). This ia very charming guy who lost his right leg to osteosarcoma and is in remission.

                                                    

After support group ends, Augustus invites her to watch a movie at his house. The two watch the movie, Hazel meets Augustus' parents, and Hazel shares with Augustus her favorite book, "An Imperial Affliction" (as I mention before) The book becomes a point of bonding for them, and Hazel and Augustus begin to spend more time together.

This story is kind of “based on a real story”, John Green had a really good inspiration for this book, and her name is Esther Earl.

Esther is a girl he met in a Harry Potter convention with his brother Hank. They were dancing when she came to him and asked him for a photo. He saw a girl wearing a nasal cannula and a nearly identical girl (her twin) holding an oxygen tank. (Hazel Grace also has a nasal cannula)

Since that moment they became friends, they talked for a while and weeks later they were talking by Skype almost every week. He found out that she wasn’t just a viewer of their videos, she was a hardcore nerdfighter. Who fight for nerds and celebrate intellectualism, Esther had been watching them for years.

Just before her dead he mentions that she told him her happiest memory.

“It had occurred when she was hospitalized with pneumonia and thought to be dying. She spoke about having her whole family around her, holding hands with them, feeling connected to these people who loved her infinitely. She used that word at some point referring to her family’s love, infinite, and I thought about how infinity is not a large number.” – John Green

Now every time he talks with the media about this books he always try to say that The Fault in Our Stars, it is dedicated to Esther, is not about her.

*I want to mention that I didn’t write a lot about the book because maybe you’ll read it (or maybe not) and because I haven’t finished the book, I’m missing 2 chapters.*