The Fault In Our Stars
Ehem. I'm sorry but today post will be in English and hope John Green may stumble upon my blog to read what I have in mind for both Hazel and Augustus.
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I wanted to actually write the synopsis so that anyone who accidentally stumble upon my blog *silently praying at the corner* and read my post but still didn't know about this novel.But unfortunately I'm not going to. Let save the troublesome thing for later.
When I read TFIOS, I was expecting a happy ending. Well, aren't all the love story have happy ending ? I want to actually minimize the spoiler but my heart demand a closure. This novel gives me a warm and fuzzy feeling like you just having a hot Milo during rainy season while snuggling in your bed comfortably. But at the same time, it gives me a sharp pain right to my heart and my chest, you know the sharp pain that makes you crying and laughing at the same time. Maybe sharp pain is not the word, more like sweet pain, but let stick with sharp pain because sweet pain sound so sadist and sad. Ah, and the last thing I felt is the feeling that I got whenever I read stories from the Chicken Soup collection. You know the motherly feeling of achievement.
This story is so damn twisted. Well, weirdly twisted in like romantic and happy-ever-after kinda twisted. Not the Patricia Cornwell or John Grisham gruesomely twisted. Not the criminally twisted but romantically twisted.
Despite that I actually love the twisted side.
Why is it twisted ? Well because AUGUSTUS DIED !! THAT'S WHYYYYYYYYYYYY ~ *wailing*
The one who sickly and dying is Hazel so why is it that Augustus DIED before her ? *swimming in the pool of tears* When Augustus told Hazel that he lit up like a Christmas Tree (only people who have read know this) , a mixture of water, proteins and some lysosomes poured out from my lacrimal gland and cause me to lacrimate. To put it simple, I WAS WAILING !!!
The story start off with a so romantic, chick-flick style kinda type so I was like grinning joyously with the stupid grin and little shrieking sound I made whenever the story is so sweet I demand a relationship just like the story. Hazel is beautiful, Augustus said and I quote. So does our beloved Augustus Water, who seem to be the hottest guy in planet for Hazel.
I really love the realistic relationship that Augustus and Hazel had. I mean that's how life (and love) is. The story of how they fell in love is the best part of this book for me personally. Because you simply fell. There's no drama, no stupid over explained situation, you just fell. They didn't even have the so called you-officially-my-girlfriend or like the we're-dating phrase
They just know and my favourite line would be from Augustus :
I have butterfl- , DRAGONS roaring in my stomach I was blushing and feel like crying at the same time. This so freakin sweet ! Then there's Amsterdam ! I like the Amsterdam moment until the Christmas tree moment . And yeah, Peter Van Houten is an a**hole but I kinda understand and simply pitied him.
I didn't know that the story will took a sharp turn that activate my lacrimal gland. I was so not ready for that.
Yeah, Augustus died and Hazel continue her live searching for Augustus lost last letters and *BOOM !*
The END.
See, I'm not lying when I said this story is twisted ! I was crying from chapter 16 until page 89. The end of the story. Still can't get the story over my head. I keep playing the story in my head (not willingly) over and over again thinking that it still not the end of their stories. I refuse to accept the ending.
Dear Mr John Green,
Are you by any chance Mr Peter Van Houten in a flesh ? I mean how can you end the stories like that ? Now I know how Hazel feels when An Imperial Affliction end the way it ends. I mean give me like short extra like where Hazel are dying from her disease but she's happy, and how her mother and her Master and how she's doing now. Is his father still a crybaby ? I know its impossible but I hope Monica and Isaac get back together, well at least SOMEONE is happy ! Maybe TELL ME that Mr Peter Van Houten has finally move on from his lost.
I haven't seen the movie, well obviously because it will come out 4 September here in Malaysia.
Sincerely
The Emotional Fan Girl.
BUT
The stories even though its a work of fiction, it makes me cry makes me mad and makes me think about people who have cancer. I mean, even though they are sick, they actually still a human. Well, since I rarely choose who I socialize with and none of my friends have cancer, God Bless Us. Unlike in USA, despite Cancer or any chronic disease, Malaysian pretty much is a healthy country well, minus the fact that most of the elderly died from either High Blood Pressure, Chronic Heart Disease (Heart Attack) and Diabetes. Three of the deadly disease in Malaysia.
The percentage of people having cancer at the early childhood, let say 12 years are really low here. Even if there is, I think we will never see them. I don't think that they physically able to do that which I know is a stereotype thinking. I have one friends, well I kinda knew everyone by face because I;m a VP of the Student Council. She had a leukimia and she passed away in February if I'm not mistaken. She always had this weak look and fragile body and she hardly participate in our student council activities which is REALLY TIRING ! But she's a brainer. She got 4.00 flat for the first semester and then she was admitted to hospital and we never see her again until her family posted the news that she's dead on FB.
Despite entangled by the romance genre, the book is suprisingly a eye opener (?) for us to know that people who have cancer and live on is still human. Even if time pass, their cancer healed but they still fighting (look at Augustus story) and I know this because my mother use to have malignant tumor in her heart. It was removed and she completely recovered. But we never know what might happen next. Like I said, just like Augustus case.
"Cancer is a side effect of dying"
I certainly like this quote about books that I read.
| Alia |
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