Every book portrays a different story, a different experience that an author wants to convey. As an aspiring writer, I want to introduce and discuss this particular story made by an award-winning author, John Green. “The Fault in Our Stars” is a novel that focuses on the journey of a 16-year-old cancer patient, Hazel Grace Lancaster and Augustus Waters who shares the same fate as hers. Despite of their sickness, both discover and fulfill life with love, pain and understanding. In here, John Green came up with this concept because he wants to tell what a life of a patient with cancer or with other diseases is, aside from suffering. He wants to emphasize that sick people can also do other things. They can find love, fulfill their wishes and experience joy and excitement as a normal person will. In the world full of fantasies, comedy and every other genre, few authors are brave enough to tell a story about the reality of a cancer patient. As Green explores the experiences of the cancer patients himself, readers are able to enter the reality of this story with honesty, humor and purpose. Being alive and in love give a new meaning specially to a person who faces difficult challenges such as cancer. As stated by John Green, “What’s the point of being alive if you don’t at least try to do something remarkable.” Positivity is what …show more content…
The strengths make the book inspiring and popular such as its adaptation into a movie and the recognition and praise of different readers worldwide. This is a unique and a heart-wrenching story of two lovers. Both are relatable with enlightening words or statements for life. There are weaknesses that seemingly gather my attention, but weakness is just a term which means a need for improvement. The strengths overcome these weaknesses as seen through the book’s success. Overall, I think this is a great story and I recommend this for a reader who wants a new story to indulge and lose oneself