Synopsis Novel

THE FAULT IN OUR STARS

John Green

The main characters in this novel are Hazel Grace Lancaster and Augustus Waters. Hazel Graze Lancaster is the girl that diagnosed with Stage IV thyroid cancer when she was thirteen. Because of her cancer, she uses a portable oxygen tank to breathe properly.  She never go out from her home. She always spend her time with reading book, and thinking about death. So, her mother suggest to her to attend Support Group . In support group, there are have some people who cancer survivors. She meet a teenage boy in the course of the meeting in Support Group. He is Augustus Waters. Augustus Waters is teenage boy had a little touch of osteosarcoma a year and a half ago, but he is just in Support Group at Isaac’s request and also they are to support their mutual friend, Isaac. Isaac is the man who had a tumor in one eye and now he has to have his other eye taken out as well. After the meeting ends, Augustus approaches Hazel and tells her she looks like Natalie Portman in V for Vendetta. He invites Hazel to his house to watch and discuss their experiences with cancer. Hazel tells that she has thyroid cancer that has spread to her lungs meanwhile Augustus had osteosarcoma, but he is now cancer free after having his leg amputated.

Someday Augustus invites Hazel on a picnic, it turns out he's planned an elaborate Dutch-themed picnic where he reveals that a charitable foundation that grants the wishes of kids with cancer has agreed to grant his: he's taking the two of them to Amsterdam. She is thrilled, but when he touches her face she feels hesitant for some reason. Over time she realizes that she likes him a lot, but she knows she'll hurt him when she dies. She compares herself to a grenade.

In the midst of her struggle over what to do about Augustus, Hazel suffers a serious episode in which her lungs fill with fluid and she goes to the ICU. When she is released after a period of days, she learns that Augustus never left the hospital’s waiting room. The following day, Augustus confesses that while Hazel was in the ICU he had a body scan which revealed his cancer has returned and spread everywhere. They return to Indianapolis, and Hazel realizes Augustus is now the grenade. As his condition worsens he is less prone to his typical charm and confidence. He becomes vulnerable and scared, but is still a handsome boy in Hazel’s mind. Hazel recognizes that she loves him now as much as ever. Augustus’s condition deteriorates quickly. In his final days Augustus arranges a prefuneral for himself, and Hazel gives eulogies.Then, Augustus dies eight days later. She says how much she loves Augustus, and that she would not trade their short time together for anything in the world.