Over the summer, I read The Fault in Our Stars. The book was about teenagers with cancer, specifically about a girl named Hazel with lung cancer. The book was not really about drama, but about the reality of life and how to get by with a difficult "hurdle" in the way. It contains love, medicine, and life in general.
The overall theme for the book is love. Hazel and Gus, one of the teenagers described later in the book, grow more close to each other until they cannot be broken from each other. Their love emerges at the beginning of the book when Hazel sees Gus at the first Support Group meeting she went to. It grows more when they interact with each other. Towards the middle of the book, Gus confesses his love to Hazel while they're in a plane flying to Amsterdam. The quote “I’m in love with you, and I’m not in the business of denying myself in the simple pleasure of saying true things. I’m in love with you, and I know that love is just a shout in the void, and that oblivion is inevitable, and that we’re all doomed and that there will be a day when all our labor has been turned to dust, and I know the sun will swallow the only earth we’ll ever have, and I’m in love with you.” (Green 153) What this means is that their love is forever and even after death, they won't ever split apart.
One character that changes drastically is Hazel. In the beginning of the book, she was very unsocial with little friends since she dropped out of school at 13 years old. Later in the book, she develops her character by growing more friendly and showing affection for others. Instead of being unsocial, she becomes more friendly and shows a more positive side to herself and to others in the end.
An article related to cancer.
In this article, teens in a high school have a dance party for more than a day to help raise money for cancer battlers and injured adults and children. It was very successful and they raised over $500,000 for the foundations.
Until next post, I hope everyone has a great day and or week.
-Amanda
