Summary of The Fault in Our Stars

Summary of The Fault in Our Stars

The main character’s name is Hazel, a 17 years old girl who has thyroid and impressive satellite colony in lungs. She met a boy named Gus in a support group named The Heart of Jesus. He is 18 years old and cut one of his leg because osteosarcoma. Hazel is negative but Gus is really positive. Even if he lost one of his leg, he described him self as part cyborg. He enjoys his life. But Hazel doesn’t like to make friends and go out door. They also have different arguments of being forgotten. Gus intend to live an extraordinary life to be remembered but Hazel think oblivion is inevitable.

Even though they have so many differences, they fell in love quickly. They exchanged their favorite books. The book Hazel likes is An Imperial Affliction, a book about cancer. She really like the writer Peter Van Houten because she thinks he really knows the feeling of death. This book stops in the middle of a sentence which means it doesn’t have an ending. Both Hazel and Gus want to know the ending. Hazel has written to the writer so many times but never got receives. So Gus found writer’s secretary’s email and emailed her. The writer invited them to Amsterdam but Hazel’s parents doesn’t have money and worried of Hazel’s health. A foundation named Genies which is help young children who are going to die to achieve their dream. Hazel has used her wish when she was 13. But Gus save his wish. Genies agreed him to go to Amsterdam and invite Hazel as well. They had a lot of fun in Amsterdam. Peter Van Houten is not as well as they imagined, he is a old man who doesn’t want to be disturbed by readers. He pretened he doesn’t like Hazel an Gus, but actually he likes them. Gus understands what he is thinking.

They story has a really sad ending. Gus died because his cancer spread throughout his body. In his funeral, Peter Van Houten was invited. He gave Hazel a letter. Gus wrote to Peter Van Houten and asked him if he can writer the ending to Hazel.

At first Hazel thought she is just a person who is going to die, just like what she said；“Depression is the side effect of dying.” Pain is able to see all the time in this movie, the pain from cancer, the pain from Hazel’s parents… They hurt each other because of pain, but they also know each other’s love so they forgive the pain. The movie gives people a new view of death. A person’s death is not the ending but the new start for people whose alive. Hazel said funeral is not for people who has died, it is prepared for people whose still alive. Funeral is a chance for people to remember the died person, it is a chance to take love and start again. In this world, we only have to be remembered by the people we love and the people who love us, that is enough.