The Fault in our Stars

Green, John. (2012). The fault in our stars.  NY: Penguin Random.  This book is about a girl named Hazle Grace Lancaster .  Hazle's mother decides that she is depressed and she needs to go to a support group to help her cope with her illness.  Hazle has cancer.  She meets a guy at her support group who has, Osteosarcoma his name is Gus Waters.  Hazle and Gus begins a great friendship.  Gus loves Hazle, but Hazle doesn’t want to hurt him because she knows she is terminally ill.  Hazle loves this novel called An Imperial Affliction by Peter Van Houten.  Hazle wants to meet the author of this book.  Boyfriend, Gus arranges contact with Peter Van Houten. Peter invites them to go to Amsterdam to see him but the doctors and her parents are against it.  Finally they approve her to go to Amsterdam.  She meets the writer and realizes that the author is not willing to reveal to her about the ending. Gus her boyfriend is strong for her, but she soon finds out he is dying of cancer.  She stays strong and positive but Gus dies and she speaks at his funeral.  This is great emotional love story.  The story teaches us about love and life itself.  It is sad knowing that you have young people dealing with illnesses and having to find truth and love.  Havighurst’s Theory of Developmental Task; Adolescents undergo changing relationships with parents.   Her relationship with her parents is changing as she grows up.  She wants her parents to have a life after her and she realizes that her mom is going to college.  She is very happy about this.