The Fault in Our Stars

I was mentally preparing myself for a little over half a year to read a story about Hazel, a girl with cancer whom I thought would die at the end of the book. When Augustus told her as they were finishing their trip to Amsterdam that he had a recurrence, I was shocked! Why did Augustus have to die? Not that I wanted anyone to die, but I knew that someone was going to in this book. I was really angry/upset over this for a bit, but then it hit me when I read this interview that John Green posted about on his twitter:  http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/books/interview-john-green-20120119-1q71w.html#ixzz1kFl9zibt

Green’s grandfather recently died, aged 92. At the funeral, people frequently said he’d ”had a good life”. ”But you don’t hear that when someone dies when they are 15 or 16 years old,” Green says. ”And I think that is quite unfair to them … So when I was writing this novel, one of the things I was thinking a lot about was how much value, how much joy and how much good there can be in a short life.”

This is real life and these things happen to real people.