Hazel realizes that she sees herself as a grenade, and her tearful admission of this scares her parents, although they do their best to comfort her.

While she is overjoyed by the proposal, Hazel decides that she doesn't want to pursue a relationship with Gus, so that she can minimize the pain her eventual death will cause him, as Gus lost his former girlfriend, Caroline Mathers to cancer. Gus had saved his wish from 'The Genies' (a fictionalized version of the Make a Wish Foundation), and wants to use it to fly himself and Hazel to Amsterdam, Netherlands to meet Peter Van Houten, the reclusive alcoholic author of An Imperial Affliction. In addition to countless text messages and phone calls, Hazel and Gus begin to spend more time together.Īs their relationship deepens, Hazel begins to feel herself pulling away from Gus. Augustus decides to read An Imperial Affliction, Hazel's favorite book, and he bes almost as obsessed with it as she is.

Hazel meets Gus through Isaac and the support group. Isaac is best friends with Augustus 'Gus' Waters, a former basketball star who lost his right leg to osteosarcoma, and is in remission. Isaac lost his eye to cancer at a young age and has just learned that he must have the other removed, which will result in his permanent loss of vision. Isaac, a friend, also attends the support group. Hazel finished high school early, and had already begun to pursue a college education. Hazel was diagnosed with Stage 4 Thyroid cancer with metastasis forming in her lungs when she was 13, but has managed to live with her disease thanks to an experimental drug called Phalanxifor. Sixteen year-old Hazel Grace Lancaster is forced by her parents to attend a support group for children living with cancer. It is set to star Shailene Woodley, Ansel Elgort and Nat Wolff. In January 2012, the film rights to the book were optioned by Fox 2000, and on February 19, 2013, it was announced that Josh Boone would be directing the film. The nobleman Cassius says to Brutus, 'The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, / But in ourselves, that we are underlings.'' On his Tumblr blog and his YouTube blog, Green stated that 'the title is inspired by a famous line from Shakespeare's play Julius Caesar (Act 1, scene 2). The story is narrated by a sixteen-year-old female cancer patient named Hazel Grace Lancaster, who is forced by her parents to attend a support group, where she subsequently meets and falls in love with the seventeen-year-old Augustus Waters, an ex-basketball player and amputee. The Fault in Our Stars is the fourth solo novel by author John Green, published in January 2012.

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