(Or maybe I'm just a sucker for John Green) That being said.my dad has had cancer too. It's not the best/saddest book in the world, but it is exceptional, I think. I do think the book was exceptional, told a story about cancer from a perspective you wouldn't think of - a teenager's. I felt like it didn't really glorify CANCER, but glorified prevailing love, and living life to the fullest, no matter the circumstances. I don't entirely agree with your opinion of the book, with all due respect.
Nice to meet you, I'm one of the loudly-sobbing teenage girls from your movie theater :) (metaphorically speaking). What if they had seen what he looked like right after he died – his lifeless body more peaceful than it had been in months? If only they knew what my father went through, then the story of Hazel Lancaster and Augustus Waters would have seemed like a cakewalk.
I wonder what the people in the movie theater would have thought if they’d watched my father deteriorate without even realizing what was happening to him. I cried so much when my dad cursed me out or yelled at me. I didn’t cry during “The Fault in Our Stars” because what my dad and my family experienced was far worse than what Augustus and Hazel did. If they based their knowledge of cancer on the movie alone, no one in that theater would have a clue how hard it really is to live with. He yelled at us more often, and sometimes we weren’t even sure if he knew that he was going to die. After his brain surgery, my dad was never the same again. At least Hazel and Augustus could talk, walk, and think normally. I know firsthand how sad terminal illness can be, especially since my dad’s cancer was in his brain. Pretty much everything had to be done by a nurse or my mom I like to joke that if that isn’t true love, I don’t know what is. After his brain surgery, he couldn’t walk, use the bathroom without help, or dress himself. My dad had stage IV glioblastoma – the most malignant type of brain cancer. Yes, it was sad, but it definitely wasn’t the saddest movie I have ever seen.Īs someone who knows what it’s like to live with someone who has cancer, I hated “The Fault in Our Stars,” because it glorified the illness. Cassidy and I were the only two people in the theater who weren’t sobbing loudly we weren’t even tearing up. I thought I would cry and want to see it a dozen times, but I didn’t.
When the “Fault in Our Stars” movie was released, my friend Cassidy and I walked into the theater very excited. Everyone who read the book cried, and I hadn’t even been close to tears. My friend who read The Fault in Our Stars for ninth-grade English recommended it to me, so I thought, Why not? I might as well see what all of the hubbub is about. But when a gorgeous plot twist named Augustus Waters suddenly appears at Cancer Kid Support Group, Hazel’s story is about to be completely rewritten.” Sounds sad, right? It is. But on the off chance you’ve been living under a rock, I will give you Goodreads’ description of the book: “Despite the tumor-shrinking medical miracle that has bought her a few years, Hazel has never been anything but terminal, her final chapter inscribed upon diagnosis. We’ve all heard of John Green’s The Fault in Our Stars.
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