She describes it by saying, ‘depression is not a side effect of cancer. It is portrayed by the way Hazel explains an idea of what are the real side effects of cancer, in this case depression. John Green creates this story where the characters take cancer as a member of their lives by making it seem as something that they have known forever and explain what is really to live with it.

The courage that it takes for a person to take cancer as part of their lives and the fears they create. The Fault in our Stars is not just a book that portrays the hard times that a teen or any person at any age goes through cancer physically, but also what actually true love is and the power it has. Both create a relationship together where they fight the struggles that are presented to them and share the obsession over a book named, An Imperial Affliction by the fictional author Peter Van Houten. Augustus is a seventeen-year-old boy, survivor from osteosarcoma, which falls in love with Hazel at the moment he sees her. She is obligated by her mother to go to a cancer support group where she meets a young, handsome boy named Augustus Waters. Since her lungs are so badly damage caused by the cancer, she is connected to an oxygen tank in order to be able to breath. Hazel Grace is a sixteen-year-old girl, who has been suffering thyroid cancer since the age of thirteen.

‘I fell in love the way you fall asleep, slowly, then all at once’ (Green).

The fault in our stars book review