the characters of THE FAULT IN OUR STARS

hey guys!!! I hope you liked my previous review of the book, now I think I should have a disastrous attempt at describing the characters in the book. I hope you like this also!! As you know I don't have a wide vocabulary, but I'll try to describe Augustus and Peter van houten as well as I can!!
so just the names of the characters i am going to write about
ISAAC, AUGUSTUS, HAZEL, PETER VAN HOUTEN



ISAAC

A very memorable and an amazing character in the book, not one of the main character, but treated as one, an amazing friend of Augustus waters (the REAL main character). They both deserved each other, not in the gay point of view, okay? they were best buddies, and Isaac makes this book not just a love story but a sample of friendship to everybody in this universe. so if you tell me to define Isaac in less than five words, Isaac : friend, the real one.
He also was a cancer patient like almost everyone in the book, got both of his eyes taken out in exchange for a cancer free body, yyipe!! You might be thinking oh, man this is so sad!! this should not happen, yeah it is, but he did not feel sad, he is okay with it, he is "happy", but personally the author or god (whoever you want to choose) did him a favor, the author (i chose the author), made him blind and did him a favor because..... He had a girlfriend he loved with all his heart named Monica, she dumped him just before he was loosing his eyes just because "she couldn't handle it", i mean he is getting is getting his eyes out and SHE can't handle it!!!, that is the exact same thing Isaac said and Monica was a bitch i think she would've dumped him with or without his eyes, so the author saved him the pain to see Monica again and just drown in his own grief or worse the pain to see her with somebody else, THAT was the favor the author did to him.
The author did another and the greatest favor ever to Isaac, the author gave Isaac the power to see his best friend alive but even the author is not so mean to make Isaac see his best friend at the house of death, the chance that not many unfortunate souls get, Isaac got it. That means John is giving us the message that there will be grief and unfortunates in your life but there will always be a speck of positive in it, and if you believe enough and seize it, it is more than enough to make you happy!



AUGUSTUS

Augustus "Gus" Waters, that's the name of the exemplar of all the things a girl needs in his boyfriend, it's a bit difficult actually, describing him, we both being boys and all, not my natural ability to describe boys as "handsome" or "hot" or "charming" but he is, no denying it, at least hazel thinks he is (Hazel is the other main character if you wanna know). So Augustus is most amazing boyfriend any girl can ever have!!!! he just sweeps tom cruise and other whatnot celebrities of with is broom!!! he is the really honest with Hazel, and loves her truly, does not expect anything from her, his love is example to both boys and girls around the world but apart from being a lover he is a friend also, and he does not fall back on his duties on either of the things. He just loves his symbolic references, he is the kind of guy who does not make hippe comments on somebody and does not have a pick up line starting with "hey baby". His pickup line is  "It's a metaphor you see, u put the killing thing in your mouth but you don't give it the power to kill it" which seriously made girls and hazel fall for him. In the book Augustus is very humble and "hot", i know perfect combination for a boyfriend right?, he says that HE is lucky to love her, but i think, that Hazel is lucky to have him. You will not get one like him in any life u can ever imagine! The most amazing thing about him being a boyfriend is that he is honest, he is humble, he does not like to show of. He has won Hazel purely on the basis of honesty and his character. That's what it's about people, He is open to Hazel all the times, is not afraid to disagree with her will openly tell his opinions to her, be sarcastic without hurting anybody, knows how to do justice to his friends (read the part where they go to throw eggs on a car, and watch it also, the movie one is better, in my opinion). In the starting lines of the description when i said "charming" i don't mean as he is very attractive looking (though he is), he is charming from the from his behavior, it's that kind of charming where first you see his appearance and be like, 'okay he is attractive, so what?' but when you talk to him you are like 'Dang!, this one is something!' and you have a very high chance for falling for him.



HAZEL

Hazel. Oh Hazel! Fun fact : John Green chose the name Hazel because it is an in-between color and she has also an in-between life. she is in-between health and sickness, in-between adolescence and adulthood, in between drowning and swimming. Believe me, it is very difficult to describe her, just because she is Hazel Grace! In the words of Augustus Waters, "she is funny without being mean", she really is! First you look at her and be like, "oh she's got this long tubes in her nose to help her breathe" not very attractive right? but Hazel grace is not about looks she is about character and charm, she teaches us that looks are not everything, your words and thought also makes a difference (but then Augustus finds her beautiful, he's something right?!)
Hazel is beautiful naturally because she lives a monotonous life (before she met Augutus), she reads "an Imperial Affliction" again and again, watches reruns of america's next top model, and thinks about death a lot, but one day when her mother consults a doctor about her behavior she finds out that Hazel is depressed and is recommended that she goes to a support group, she is reluctant at first but goes anyways just because she wanted to make her parents happy(the same reason she does anything now a days) and then she meets the sensational and charming Augutus Waters! She is a big fan of "an Imperial Affliction" because she thinks that book has something about cancer but is not a cancer book, she thinks that the author has gotten as close to Hazel's condition as anyone will ever get.
When she gets the invite from Peter to visit Amsterdam she starts fan girling so hard that a problem in her lungs arises (okay that was blunt, sorry about that, that was not the reason). Then i think everyone reading the books, including me, freaked out very badly because we know, though we may not have experienced it, that how sad and moronic it to have a shot at fulfilling your dream to meet your favorite author and being stopped at it for a reason as shitty as your lungs. She even cares for Augustus and her loved one greatly, as she initially tries to block her feeling for Augutus and as she think and i quote-"I am a grenade, i'm going to burst one day, and when i do i like to minimize the casualties" Oh hazel, I assure you, you are not a grenade to us. and she is so different from others as others wants to be remembered, they want to "leave a mark in the universe" but she understands that it is of no use and the marks try to leave are often scars, and scars fade away
I think I can't describe her anymore, sorry about it, so guys this is HAZEL GRACE LANCASTER, I hope I described her decently because I don't want to portray an excellent character badly.

PETER VAN HOUTEN

A git. no jokes, at least that's how he is portrayed. At first when the author introduces him and you see how he behaves with Augustus and Hazel you are just like, yup definitely a git, because, first he invites Hazel darling to Amsterdam and makes her really excited and get's her hopes up, even though she get's some emergency with her lungs she still wants to go because it is her lifetime dream! When they went to Amsterdam they had a nice dinner and as it was written on paper Peter payed their bill, so then then their hopes rose a little more! But hey! when they really meet him he says he will not meet him!!! He said that he left America never to meet America and even that invitation was a formality kind of thingy and should not have been taken seriously!!! He is the example of a universal idiot to all of us, I am pretty sure Osama Bin Laden would look like a cuddly toy in front of him and I am certain he'll not be able to walk half a feet without his assistant, Lidewij.
But then at the end of the book there is total sorrow in the atmosphere and everybody's heart, then author hints that even Peter feels pain, and we come to know about his past it just dawn on me that the reason he left America was because of his daughter, he does not like to feel pain, that's why he appears so heartless and and like an idiot, when he saw a girl suffering with the same fate, he remembered his daughter and did not give Hazel his condolences because he knows no amount of sympathy he gives it will never match her pain or even ease it a bit. He even offers to clear the doubts Hazel had about the his famous book "An imperial affliction". So in short, he is an moronic idiot but in the end is a decent guy!
 
   

The fault in our stars - Epitome of Love, Romance and Friendship!

This movie just changes your perception about love, romance, the whole freaking universe, same with other books of John Green (or watch). This movie just made me rethink my decisions about my whole life!!
I am telling you, this movie/book will make you cry and laugh at the same time but you will want to come back for more. So I think I should try to make the review more sophisticated (and most probably fail). In this movie both the characters are directly or indirectly related to cancer, but mind you, it is not a cancer book!

Oh, the optimism, truth and love it has!! :') 

                 

        THE FAULT IN OUR STARS

The movie/book The fault in our stars, is a book about finding true love, "I believe that true love exists, and everyone should have it and it should last as long as your life does" - Isaac. (A character in the book,i'll get back on him in the next post). This book gives us a different perception on love and companionship and even transforms a simple and very common word into a sample of love to us, the magical word being "okay?okay." which is the supplement of saying that they'll always love each other, i know, romantic right? not so much, because at first hazel turns down Augustus because in her point of view - "i am a grenade, and when i burst i would like to minimize the casualties", as she is suffering from stage four lung cancer and naturally her lungs suck at being lungs she can just drop dead at anytime so she just wants to cut out all the relationships and just go to the deathbed peacefully. Oh but that does not happen now, does it?

As Hazel's mother decides that hazel is under depression because Hazel just starts living a repetitive life, reading the same book over and over, watching reruns of 'America's Next Top Model', and thinking about death a lot so her mother goes to their cancer specialist and she advises Hazel to join a support group. Hazel is reluctant at first but she joins eventually just make her parents happy, the only reason she does anything now a days.

Now read carefully my friends, because one day  as Hazel has just lost interest in the support group as it is not helping her in any way, she decides to not go one day but her mother sends her anyways. There she meets (THANK HER STARS) a boy named Augustus Waters, he is a charismatic, good looking guy who loves his symbolic references. At first hazel just sees him as a nobody, who is staring at her, just because she is beautiful, so romantic! After the group is over for the day, they just have a short conversation on what each other's names are and would she like to watch a movie in his house, really he asks her out irrespective of the fact that they have just officially met.

At first Hazel, of course, refuses because she has the sense to see Augustus Waters to see as an ax murderer. But Augustus Waters just takes out his trick to pick on girls (not really, he is a natural at those things. He does not need tacky things as pick up lines) that is, he just takes a cigarette and puts it in his mouth. "Seriously? you think this is cool or something? You just ruined the whole deal, you have cancer and you give money to a company to give you more cancer" Hazel says, but Augustus just impresses her by saying "it's a metaphor you see?, You just put the killing thing in your mouth but you don't give it the power to kill it" and Hazel's thinking that he is an ax murdered goes out the window and they just go to his house to watch the movie where they also exchange their favorite novels and after some time Augustus starts loving "The Imperial Affliction" and hazel adores "The Prince of Dawn"and the adventures of max mayhem!!

So fast forwarding it a bit, hazel was just trying for years to get a reply from the author of her favorite book "An imperial affliction" - Peter Van Houten but is not able to do so. But Augustus does some research and finds about the personal assistant of Peter named Lidewij Vligenthart and he gets a reply and after reading her the email and gives her the address and Hazel to writes to Peter to know all about the characters of the book and he invites them to Amsterdam because that's where he lives. As Hazel is overwhelmed as she just didn't get a reply but a formal and official invite to meet her all time favorite author!!When she tells her mother this the realization just hits her that she can't go because her parents can't afford it, and she even used her wish cancer kids gets who are seriously sick. When Augustus comes to know that he get's really shocked at the fact that her crush has used her dying wish to go to Disney land!!(she was thirteen). So he decides to use HIS wish and go to Amsterdam and take hazel with her!!! oh, the love gus has! At first hazel gets serious pain in her lungs as she can't breathe because water filled in them (thanks to the cancer!). So because of that the doctors says that she can't do air travel with her present condition (stupid doctors) and then everyone is really really sad, even the readers, as hazel can't go to Amsterdam to complete her lifetime dream (they go anyways)

When they finally meet Peter, they realize that he really didn't want to meet to him, his invite was just formal and should not be taken seriously. believe me, he was the example of a universal git and no one argued upon it, but in the end he turns out to be the Snape of TFIOS just much less likeable. Anyways, they make him talk about just one character, that too a pet, after so much coaxing and shouting, after that, they get to frustrated because he is being a moron and they leave him alone. When they are going back to the hotel Peter's assistant apologizes for him and takes them to Anne Franks's house where they have a great time (the readers know what i mean).

When they come back, something happens, something very unexpected, we did not want that to happen, now this is for the ones who have not read the story, this part would be unexpected, this would hit you worse than a cannon ball, it would probably secure a place in your heart which will hurt badly but u will want to keep it. So yeah, I recommend you to read it, the above I wrote is just the first half and a brief description of how the book is. No promises, but when i read this book it changed my perception about love, faith and friendship and after you read this book of John green there is a chance you hate him but you will yearn for more. I hope you like the book review, if you didn't, I recommend you to read it anyways! and after this book, you should read his other books also!  

The beautiful, mind blowing, everlasting pick up line of Augustus
All hail Augutus "Gus" Waters