Ready Reference Treatise: The Fault In Our Stars

By Raja Sharma

“The Fault In Our Stars” by John Green was first published in January 2012. It is the author’s sixth published novel.

Hazel Grace Lancaster, a sixteen years old cancer patient, is the narrator of the novel. The story revolves around this central character. Hazel is compelled by her parents to join a support group. She begins to attend that group. She meets Augustus Waters there. She falls in love with this seventeen years old boy. He happens to be an ex-basketball player. He is an amputee.

The title of the novel has been inspired by a scene from “Julius Caesar,” a play written by William Shakespeare. Cassius speaks this line to Brutus, “The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars...”

The novel has already been adapted into a movie. The film was directed by Josh Boone. It was a highly successful movie which was released on 6th of June, 2014.

Ready Reference Treatise: The Fault In Our Stars
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Chapter One: Introduction
Chapter Two: Plot Overview
Chapter Three: Characters
Chapter Four: Complete Summary
Chapter Five: Critical Analysis

• Language: English
• Publisher: Raja Sharma
• Release date: Mar 24, 2015
• ISBN: 9781310498145

Raja Sharma

Raja Sharma is a retired college lecturer.He has taught English Literature to University students for more than two decades.His students are scattered all over the world, and it is noticeable that he is in contact with more than ninety thousand of his students.

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Chapter One: Introduction

The Fault In Our Stars by John Green was first published in January 2012. It is the author’s sixth published novel.

Hazel Grace Lancaster, a sixteen years old cancer patient, is the narrator of the novel. The story revolves around this central character. Hazel is compelled by her parents to join a support group. She begins to attend that group. She meets Augustus Waters there. She falls in love with this seventeen years old boy. He happens to be an ex-basketball player. He is an amputee.

The title of the novel has been inspired by a scene from Julius Caesar, a play written by William Shakespeare. Cassius speaks this line to Brutus, The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars…

The novel has already been adapted into a movie. The film was directed by Josh Boone. It was a highly successful movie which was released on 6th of June, 2014.

According to the author, he got inspired to write this novel while he was working as a student chaplain at a children’s hospital. He said that the children were as human as healthy people. The author said that he did not see the sick or dying people as different from the healthy people. They were as human as others.

Having received several positive comments from the sick children in that hospital he decided to write the story though he was initially intimidated by the idea.

Green was friends with a girl named Esther Earl. She died at the age of sixteen. She died of thyroid cancer. She also has her influence on the present novel. Green admits that she inspired him to write the book. He says that Esther Earl showed him how a brief life could also be a full life.

The author has added some humor to the story because in 2000 he got inspired at the hospital. The author had started writing a story about a group of young cancer patients who had formed a Dead Person’s Society. Those young patients would sneak out of the hospital and meet in a cave near the hospital.

While writing the book, Green got his first child. He got more inspired to understand the love between parent and child.

The book was very well received both by readers and critics. It received several highly positive reviews and admiration from the academic circles.

Chapter Two: Plot Overview

Hazel Grace Lancaster is the protagonist and the narrator of the story. She is a sixteen years old teenager. She is suffering from thyroid cancer that has spread to her lungs.

She has been compelled to attend a cancer patients’ support group by her mother. During one such support meeting, Hazel comes across a seventeen years old teenage boy. His name is Augustus Waters.

Augustus Waters is an amputee; he has lost his one leg because of osteosarcoma. He attends that support group meeting to support his mutual friend, Isaac. It is revealed that Isaac is losing his remaining eye to cancer.

Hazel and Augustus fall in love. After that meeting Augustus invites Hazel to his house. They watch a movie together and talk about their