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The Fault in Our Stars
John Green
khmelyok10 августа 2019 г.It's so romantic and so tragical.
It's unusual for a brutal man with the beard to read the books like this one. And to like them. This is supposed to be the literature for teenagers. For teenage girls. The main character is the girl and she tells us her tragic ( have to admit she has the sence of humour) story. But this story was written by a man. So this mythical women's soul was quite understandable for me (don't know what do the girls think about this book).
Hazel Grace. It's usual American girl but she has unusual problem – she is dying because of cancer that struck her lungs. Suddenly after all this introduction of the main character the question appears – all my problems that I worry so much about, are they important? Also, the apprehension of the fact that the death can take the young, this is terrifying. Hazel is very cute, ironic, friendly with her parents, much more optimistic than she is supposed to be. And she suffers a lot because of this nonstop treatments. And she is waiting for the end, trying to fullfill her short life while waiting. She visits boring support group until she meets there Augustus. The guy without the leg, he has to be in the same position as Hazel. But he is full of life. His sacral fear is to die being forgotten, without leaving anything important in this world. He likes to be loved by people and does everything for being charming, not for his benefit but just to leave something warm in the hearts of those he meets during his way.
These characters taught each other to love. Their relationship is not something to describe in the poems or to sing about. Their love was in the usual action of just spending time together, communicating, sharing the interest, having a lot of differnt troubles due to them being almost invalids. This mix of love and death side by side creates the tension because it was hard to believe that any wonder can happen.
Sad but true. No wonders happened. Everything that could seem to be romantic and supposed to have happy end, wasn't so obvious. The end of the book made me return to the Earth. Some of us (me too) imagine so many exalted things that can't survive in everyday's reality. The trip to the Netherlands was just the illusion of expactations. Augustus lost all his charm, dying in terrible pain, losing all his power of will and optimism. Hazel was totally broken in the end. Why do the young have to die?
And parents of the main characters. I empathized them the most. Don't know what can be worse.51K
