the book I read 8 times
The Fault In Our Stars Is Dear To My Heart
“God grant me the serenity to
accept things that I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and
the wisdom to know the difference”
~ JOHN GREEN
The book written by
John Green requires no prologue. Every human being in this epoch is conscious
of this brilliant multiple award winner writer ‘John Green’ who wrote every
line of this novel that straightly goes and ties knots with the threads in my
heart. In an equivalent manner, Josh Boone’s adaption of this prominent book
for a major motion picture took the heart of millions of audiences and gained
much more love. I am more fond of books and consciously highlight and write down the most heart-melting words or lines from them. This is kind of finding the suitable lines through which I search for expressing myself.
The
concise evocation of film particulars
The film received
worldwide cognizance and was directed by Josh Boone in 2014 based on a
best-seller titled “The Fault In Our Stars” by John Green. The actors
gave life to the characters of the movie, Shailene Woodley playing the role of
Hazel Grace and Ansel Elgort as Augustus Waters. Woodley plays the role of a
sixteen-year-old cancer patient who falls in love with a boy named Augustus
waters played by Ansel Elgort who too is a cancer sufferer. The whole movie
gyrates around their burgeoning romance, the struggles of cancer patients, the
fulfillment of desires and the pain of separation. This blockbuster movie received
multiple awards and both the lead actors were esteemed for their performance
and chemistry mutually on screen. This movie was on apex at the box office
following its release and earned over 360 million dollars adjacent to the
budget of 12 million dollars around the globe.
The
Chief Narrative Abridgement
The story revolves
around the love story of two cancer patients. The movie starts with Hazel's mom
persuading her to go out, and get a life and therefore she instructs her to attend
a weekly support group that seemed boring and depressing as hell to Hazel. Her
‘lungs’ sucks to be ‘lungs’ and this underlines that she was suffering from
lung cancer. Further, in the movie, she met a hot boy named Augustus Waters,
who had osteosarcoma which is principally a category of bone cancer that
commences in the cells that form bones. The two bond over their hobbies and
consent to read each other favourite novels. Hazel proposes An
Imperial Affliction, a narrative about a cancer-stricken girl named Anna
that resembles her familiarity however it had a hasty finale. Its author, Peter
Van Houten, recoiled to Amsterdam and the novel has not been published after he
retreated to the other country. However, Augustus gives his novel Counter Insurgence
to Hazel Grace. The friendship between them grows and they start visiting each
other houses over meals and spending more time playing video games, watching
movies together and discussing their beloved books. Weeks later, Augustus
tells Hazel about his correspondence with Van Houten via email. Van Houten
makes clear that he is only willing to respond to their questions in person.
Augustus then astonishes Hazel with tickets to Amsterdam, acquired from the
Make-A-Wish Foundation that fulfils one desire of each cancer-stricken patient.
After a medical delay, Hazel's treatment centre and doctors finally consent to
the trip.
Augustus with Hazel
and her mom disembark in Amsterdam, where Augustus finally confesses his love
for Hazel at some stage during a romantic meal. The same afternoon, they went to
Van Houten's residence and were traumatized after discovering that he was a
dishonourable and alcoholic man. They discovered, that the emails from Van
Houten were sent by his assistant Lidewij and she prearranged the appointment
devoid of Van Houten's knowledge. Van Houten ridicules Hazel as she is in the
quest for serious responses to a piece of fiction and demeans her medical
state. Then the teens leave, entirely flustered. Lidewij request them to go for
beautiful sightseeing to compensate for their ruined experience. Then they
visited various places along with Anne Frank’s dwelling that is worth
mentioning, as it is where they shared their first kiss. The next day, Augustus
informs Hazel that his cancer has resurfaced, broadened all over his body, and
is now life-threatening and fatal. Hazel is disconsolate but optimistic and
positive.
After their homecoming
to their native country, Augustus's health persists on deteriorating more
each day. They share a more close and poignant bond, and as mentioned by Gus,
they try to live infinite in finite. Gus requests Hazel and his best friend
Isaac to his pre-funeral, where they delivered eulogies that they both prepared
for him. Hazel let know him that she would not lose their precious short time
in concert for anything. The film budges ahead with the demise of Augustus
eight days after the subsequent event. Van Houten attends his funeral,
revealing that Gus had demanded him to do so. Van Houten clarifies to Hazel
that An Imperial Affliction was regarding his daughter, Anna,
who died from leukaemia at a young age. He gives Hazel a piece of paper, which
she primarily castoffs, but later repossesses after a dialogue with Isaac, who
divulges that the paper was an epistle from Gus, not Van Houten – Augustus
asked him for his assistance in writing an acclamation for Hazel.
Hazel examines the
letter, in which Gus acknowledges his destiny and admits his love for Hazel. It
wraps up with, "Okay, Hazel Grace?" As Hazel concludes the letter,
she lies on her back in her backyard and gazes at those stars, replying,
"Okay."
Why
it's dear to my heart?
I do not want to deny myself the simpler pleasures of existence. This
movie has taught me what true love is and to love unconditionally. Someone
sacrificing his or her desires for yours, this is what love is!
I am always short of words to explain my feelings, my exact desire of
mine is to have a perfect love story like theirs. I would be her Augustus, she
will be mine Hazel, no matter how many problems come but we always will be
forever like theirs. Maybe there will be the fault in our stars that revolves
around each other and not collide forever. I wanted to live just like them
infinitely in finite time and have countless memory as rightly said by John
Green – there will be the time when each one of us will be dead and will not
exist, even the great love stories ended then why stop dreaming? No one will
remember you then, 'why do we keep restricting ourselves to tiny worlds?' Let's
explore this whole planet and dare to love.
"The real heroes anyway are not the people doing things;
the real heroes are the people noticing things, paying attention."
~ The Fault In Our Stars
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