FAULT IN OUR STARS, JOHN GREEN, By Athiralakshmi, Team 5

 “Maybe 'okay' will be our 'always”

                                                                  -John Green, Fault in our stars


    Even though I'm not a good reader, there were few times in my life, when I really wished if this lasted a little more and the first time I got this feeling was when I was reading a book named Fault in our stars by John Green. It is basically an adult fiction which discusses and depicts the life of cancer patients, their lives, their struggles, their challenges, and most importantly how far can love take us no matter how hard or worsen situation is. The protagonist of the novel is Hazel, a teenager who is suffering from lung cancer. She joins a cancer patients support group where she meets Augutus, who has got tumour in his leg. Later they starts to talk, became good friends and slowly end up loving each other. They could feel their pain, understand and support each others likes and wishes and most importantly realizes how strong is Hazels desire to know the full story of her favorite book "An imperial affliction". They would meet the writer in person to know its climax but their efforts would go in vein. And as expected Hazel is forced to see her love Augustus die and had to attend his funeral where she would get to know the climax of the same through the authors letter which Augustus had arranged for her. This is the story line. 

              Honestly speaking I never felt I was reading this book, wasn't aware how fast I'm turning pages and its because I was more of really living their lives than just feeling. Certain moments was something that made me hear my own heartbeat through my ears ,words that made me think a lot even after reading and most importantly those hard times which made me feel lucky and grateful for the life that I'm living now. Augustus's death was something anyone who had read the novel had expected but the moment when I realized he is no more made me feel numb, totally lost and my mind went too numb that I couldn't even realize that this is just an imaginary character and nothing more. 

“That’s part of what I like about the book in some ways. It portrays death truthfully. You die in the middle of your life, in the middle of a sentence” 

                                       This is one of the best lines from the same novel and the book itself mean it. Completing the rest was a hard task left for me but I just did that as I want to know how Hazel had managed herself. By the time I turned the last page by reading the last line, I could feel a small drop of tear oozing down my cheeks and that fell right down at the empty space left in that page and this was what I was back then. Coming back to reality took about a couple of hours but being normal by accepting that its just a novel and there is no need to be this down was one of the hardest challenge I had ever faced in life. This is why I love this book because a good book makes you feel that its real and here it really did. I had later read a few books and a a few among them could make me feel those feelings but I could hardly live the life of any other character as I lived Hazel's life. Later I got okay with the fact that its just a novel but the lessons that I've got to learn from this novel and certain realizations are for always.........

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