The Fault in Our Star's Plot Summary

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The book The Fault in Our Stars by John Green is a book about a dying girl who falls in love with a dying boy. The main characters are Hazel Grace and Augustus Waters. Hazel Grace is a girl who has all types of cancer and has difficulty breathing. She is a very negative person, yet still is a very happy girl, knowing she has cancer and she won’t make it very long in life. Augustus Waters is a boy who previously has had cancer and got his leg amputated when suddenly the cancer returns. He is a very soulful person and thinks of others before himself. One of them does end up dying. Hazel is in Support Group one day when a new boy catches her eye. Well, to be accurate, they catch one another’s eyes. That same day they end up befriending one another because their friend Isaac introduces them to each other and then leaves him and her alone. She then ends up going to his house that day and meets his parents. Soon enough, she and Augustus are flirtatious friends and talk to each other about everything. Hazel shares her favorite book, An Imperial Affliction, with Augustus, and together they obsess about the unsolved ending. Augustus manages to somehow get through to the author and when Hazel emails him, he invites her to come to Amsterdam to discuss the ending of the book. A fan’s dreams come true. In the meantime, Augustus and Hazel’s good friend Isaac is losing his eye, the only one he has left, so that he can be cancer free at long last. In the process though, he also loses his girlfriend Monica, who can’t “deal” with having a blind boyfriend. Yeah, I think she’s a little superficial too, but whatever. He then goes to Augustus to vent because he’s heartbroken. He then has surgery and he loses all his vision and has a hard time coping with the fact that he is in fact blind. Hazel and Augustus are there with him to comfort and lead. So Augustus surprises Hazel by
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