An Imperial Affliction

     The Fault in Our Stars is a book written by John Green about a 16 year old girl who suffers from terminal lung cancer named Hazel Grace Lancaster. She lives with her parents which suggest she is depressed since she doesn't live the house and read the same book over and over again, An Imperial Affliction. Her doctor suggested her to go to a support group where she met Isaac a guy with eye cancer who had a glass eye and a real one but it will be eventually removed in surgery he also had a girlfriend named Monica, she also meets Augustus Waters a 18 year old who lost part of his leg due to his osteosarcoma and have a prosthetic instead. In the support group Augustus revealed his fear is oblivion, he fears he would not leave a mark. Eventually Augustus and Hazel became friends and they made a deal to read each other's favourite book which Hazel chose , An Imperial Affliction, and he picked ,The Price of Dawn. An Imperial Affliction was a book written by Peter Van Houten about a girl with cancer and Hazel loved the book because it didn't sugar coded was cancer is really like, but the book ended in the middle of a sentence and that was so frustrating but also it represented that life ends just like that. One day she got a call from Augustus saying that he had finished the book and he was annoyed that the book ended just like that but he also asked Hazel if she can go to his place since Monica just dumped Isaac and he is having a crisis, so she went and Isaac was just devastated over the break up.

"It's a metaphor, see: You put the killing thing right between your teeth, but you don't give it the power to do its killing." (Green, 20)

    This quote is from when Augustus and Hazel are outside the support group and he put a cigarette in his mouth and Hazel says how it's gross and how she is against it when Augustus stopped her and explain that it's just a metaphor. I think that the quote explains that there are many things in the world that have the potential to kill you but if you don't give them the power to do it they can't.

"Pain demands to be felt" (Green, 57)

   This quote is from when Hazel arrives to Augustus house and Isaac is all over the place breaking stuff and Hazel makes a comment saying how she gets why he is so upset and then Augustus replies with this. This quote even though it so short it has more than one meaning behind it. First of all this is quote was taken out of the book Hazel loves so much so he quoted Peter Van Houten and thats why it has so much meaning to the reader and most of all Hazel. It also means that even though pain hurts we have to feel it in order to know how it feels to be happy.

     So far the book is really good, I have read most of John Green books and most of them star slow, he usually uses like the 3 first chapters so introduce characters and give back story but this book moves fast. I appreciate that on books because sometimes it gets boring but when it moves fast like this they give you new information along the way.  I like the story line and the characters have their own personality and it's nice to read books that show the reader traits about the characters without actually saying them. I am really excited to continue reading.