The Fault In Our Stars

The book I just finished is called "The Fault In Our Stars",  its a book of great love and love lost. Its about living your life surrounded with people that love you and excepting that sometimes the most perfect things can be imperfect. See Hazel the main character/narrater lives with cancer. She can't become cancer free because of the kind of lung cancer she has but she can take medication that will keep the tumors small and ineffective. In the beginning of the story Hazel is really depressed, she says she's not but really she is but then one day during a Support Group Meeting she meets Augustus Waters. They fall in love and try to live at their fullest. I think Hazel is really strong and confident but not because she is constantly dealing with her cancer but because she stays along side Augustus when everything is falling apart and because she thinks about her cancer as the worst thing but still lives on.

The conflict wasn't exactly surprising or anything just because I could sense that what the author was trying to teach was not that life is perfect but that life is imperfect and that dyeing is just one part of life. The conflict wasn't that both of them ended up having cancer because cancer isn't evil, its a part of you and its made of you but also that the only thing its trying to do is live. It wasn't that Augustus dies at the end. The real conflict was that people need to realize that death happens and that people need to realize that life isn't over for them even if it hurts like hell. The conflict was person to self because even though Agustus died, Hazel's struggle was trying to live without the "love of her life".