Fault in Our Stars

For second semester SSR I read the book The Fault in Our Stars by John Green. I’m the kind of person who will wait to read or watch something when it is popular so that my expectations aren’t to high. This is exactly what I did with this book. The story follows a teen girl, Hazel, who suffers from cancer as she begins to open her self up to knew ideas and experiences. Throughout the book she faces some of the normal challenges and circumstances many teens face. At the same time she experiences horrible sickness, a dying boyfriend, and many other unforeseen difficulties. The book shows how when we fear death we can’t enjoy living. Through the book Hazel must learn this and as time passes her perception of live begins to change. One of the subtle things the book shows is that it’s not how the story ends and what becomes of the characters but about what they experience and learned and how they changed accordingly.