"My thoughts are stars that I cannot fathom into constellations." These are the only words I can think of when it comes to describing The Fault in Our Star by John Green. The book has made me a better person than the one I was before I read it. I read the book after I saw how popular it was with my friends and I thank them every single day for introducing me to this book. The book is a raw saga of heartbreak, love, happiness. It may not have a happily ever after but it teaches us that life can go on despite everything, that we can love a person even if we cannot have or hold him or her. Like Hazel and Gus. The book has splendid and realistic characters and the tragic love story makes our hearts ache. The book is a "roller coaster that only goes up." Since the moment I opened the first page time seemed to have stopped as I was engulfed in the lives of Hazel Grace, Augustus Waters and Isaac. The book is a separate world, an infinite forever which I as a reader will cherish for a long time. The book has shown me that cancer is not something to be ashamed off and that even if we are destined to lose a battle like Hazel and Gus we should live happily. It is not about surviving but about living. The book has it all, humor like when they egg the car and do Venn diagrams and play games, happiness when Gus and Hazel go to Amsterdam, tears when we learn that Anna from AIA was based on a real person and heart break when Gus tells Hazel about the time when he lit up like a Christmas tree while she was in the ICU. I love the characters and they have become friends and advisers especially Isaac with his "always", Gus with all his metaphors and fears of oblivion and Hazel for her fight, strength and determination. Every second with the book was a time spent enjoying my small infinite to the fullest. I nearly cried when Gus called Hazel to help him while he bought metamorphic cigarettes and the prefuneral where Isaac says that he does not want to see a world without Augustus in it any more. I can go on hours and hours about the book and still not feel I have said all I wanted to. I loved the ending especially the eulogy. The book was not just a pastime reading for me but a journey through a world so similar yet so different from my own. I am excited to see how they convert TFIOS into a movie, because the book is as close to perfection as you can get in a book about disease, death and discrimination.
Anjali Roongta
X A Pratt Memorial School