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Essay / Plot Summary of The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
“Sometimes you read a book and it fills you with this strange evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the broken world will never be rebuilt unless and until every human alive reads the book” ― John Green, The Fault in Our StarsSay no to plagiarism. Get a tailor-made essay on “Why Violent Video Games Should Not Be Banned”? Get an original essay About the Author John Micheal Green is an American author as well as a You Tuber. He won the Printz Prize for his novel Looking for Alaska in 2006. The Fault in Our Stars is his fourth novel. Time's Magazine also named him one of the 100 most influential people in the world. This book The Fault in Our Stars was adapted into a film in 2014.SummaryThe story begins with a 16-year-old girl named Hazel Grace Lancaster suffering from thyroid cancer that has spread to her lungs. She attended a cancer support group at her mother's request. There, she met a 17-year-old boy named Augustus Waters, who had osteosarcoma (a type of bone cancer), who was there to accompany a friend named Issac, who was suffering from eye cancer. After the meeting ended, they met outside and Augustus Waters. told her she looked like Natalie Portman in Vendetta. There they felt a spark between them and Augustus invited her to his home. At Augustus' house, they watched a movie and hung out. There, she revealed that she had thyroid cancer that had spread to her lungs and that Augustus suffered from osteosarcoma, but he was cured after his leg was amputated. There they agreed on a deal that they would each read their favorite novel. Augustus gave her The Price of Dawn and Hazel gave An Imperial Affliction, written by Peter Van Houten. Peter lived in Amsterdam. The story is about a girl named Anna who was diagnosed with cancer. In fact, Hazel could tell so much about her own life with Anna. The novel ends very inconclusively. Anna has either died or become too ill to tell her story. This made Hazel very impatient. So when she inquired about the author from the publishers, they responded that they had never heard from him since. This upset Hazel. About a week later, Augustus surprised Hazel by telling her that he had found Peter Van Houten's assistant, Lidewij. Augustus has already started exchanging emails with Van Houten via Lidewij. When Augustus told Hazel about it, she made a list of questions she would ask Van Houten about the novel. Most of his questions were about Anna's mother. She was worried about her (Anna's mother) because she was very curious about what happened to her when Anna died. She thought that if Anna's mother survived, then maybe her mother (Hazel's mother) would also survive her death. But when she sent these questions to Van Houten, he responded via email that these questions required answers he could only provide in person. So, he invited her to his home in Amsterdam, if she was ever there, she could come by. A few days later, Augustus invited Hazel to a picnic where he told her that there was a charitable foundation that granted the wishes of these fighting children. with cancer. Fortunately, they granted Augustus' wish. Then he surprised Hazel that the foundation agreed to send them both on a trip to Amsterdam. This news made Hazel happy and realized that she loved Augustus very much but if she fell in love with him it would hurt her more than the pain of death itself. She compared herself to a grenade...