The Fault in Our Stars

The Fault in Our Stars is the sixth book by American author John Green, and his fifth novel. It appeared in January 2012. Later that year, also appeared the Dutch translation of Nan Lenders. In 2014 the film adaptation of the book came out. The book is narrated by the sixteen-year-old cancer patient Hazel, that of its parents must attend a cancer support group. There it meets and is in love with 17-year-old August Waters, an ex-cancer patient. ==Characters[ Edit] == ==Story[ Edit] == The story takes place in Indianapolis, where the 16-year-old Hazel Grace Lancaster with great reluctance a cancer patients support group must attend. Hazel has lung cancer and that is why she uses a portable oxygen tank to be able to breathe. In one of the sessions she meets August Waters. He is to come to the session to support their mutual friend Isaac. After this session speak them off. They discuss their experiences with cancer. August had bone cancer but is cancer free since his leg is amputated. They decide to read each other's favorite book. August reads Hazel's favorite book a Regal ordeal, written by the Dutchman Peter van Houten.
 * Hazel Grace Lancaster: the main character and Narrator, girl with thyroid cancer and lung cancer
 * August Waters: boy who has had bone cancer, Hazel's boyfriend (later in the book)
 * Isaac: August ' and Hazel's blind friend (by cancer to his eye)
 * Mrs. Lancaster: Hazel's mother
 * Mr. Lancaster: Hazel's father
 * Patrick: leader of the support group
 * Lidewij Vliegenthart: Peter van Houtens Secretary
 * Peter van Wood: writer of a Regal ordeal, Hazel and August visit him in Amsterdam
 * Mrs. Waters: Augustus ' mother
 * Mr. Waters: August ' father
 * Monica: Isaacs ex-girlfriend

Hazel and August discussing how frustrating it is that the book ends in the middle of a sentence, so readers do not know how it ends with the main characters. A week after this August that he says Peter van Houtens Secretary Lidewij has found and that he has begun an e-mail through its correspondence with the reclusive author. Hazel Wood sends a list of questions, but his response is that he can discuss them only in private if they have a time comes to Amsterdam .

Soon after, August reveals that a charitable foundation will fulfill his wish to be able to go to Amsterdam with Hazel. Hazel realizes that at this time they will hurt him when she dies. She compares herself with a grenade.

Just before the trip to Hazel's lungs fill with fluid and them to the intensive care unit. They may, however, to Amsterdam, because her doctor says she must live her life to the limit. Her mother calls.

Arrived here speak them off with Van Houten. They're discovering that he is not a great writer but is a drunkard, who says he can't tell them the end. Hereinafter referred to as they go along with Muralitharan to the secret annex of Anne Frank and they give each other a romantic kiss. Afterwards they return and they go to bed with each other for the first time.

The next day, while being August confesses that he was intensivecareafdeling, a body scan has undergone from which it has been found that his cancer has spread. They go back to Indianapolis and Hazel realizes that August is now the grenade. When his condition worsens, he becomes less and less charming and confident person that he was. He is vulnerable and scared, but for Hazel is he still a beautiful boy. August ' condition deteriorates faster and faster. In his final days August regulates a funeral for themselves, and Isaac and Hazel also maintain a eulogy. August dies eight days later. Hazel is shocked when she sees Wooden ' funeral on August. August had told him to come to the end of ' testing ' Hazel to tell a Regal, but Hazel is not interested.

A few days later tells Isaac to Hazel that August was writing something for her. They will search for the pages, but they can't find them. At the end of the day, Hazel found out that August has sent the pages to wooden to using a good eulogy for the Hazel to be able to write. Lidewij sends the pages to Hazel. In reason writes August that pain be done to them is inevitable, but that we may choose who our hurts, and that he is pleased with his choice. He hopes that they, too, is happy with her choice. The last words in the book are spoken by Hazel, which this agrees.