The best thing about The Fault in Our Stars

I think the best thing about this book is Augustus.  I really like how John Green portrayed him as a very gentleman-like guy.  He respects hazel's decision to just be friends even though he really likes her and Hazel likes him.  Augustus is also very generous to Hazel and lets her use his wish to go to Amsterdam.  Hazel already used her wish to go to Disneyworld and Augustus was more than happy to offer his wish to her.  I also really like how respectful Augustus is to Hazel's mom.  When Hazel and her mom went to pick Augustus up to go to the airport he said, "Always a pleasure to see you, ma'am."

Best line from Chapter four in The Fault in Our Stars

I think the best line from chapter four was the very last line, "'That's the thjing about pain, "Augustus said, and then glanced back at me, 'It demands to be felt."  I really like this line because it really explains how powerful pain can be.  Augustus is always saying wise and inspirational things to Hazel, but so far I think this line makes the biggest impact on the reader.  When I read this line, I had to stop and think about it for a minute.  When you feel pain, whether its a papercut or a broken bone, it doesnt go away immediately.  It stays for a while.  I think pain is very demanding, it consumes your attention.

The Fault in Our Stars setting

So far I've only read up through the first three chapters.  The main settings in this book so far are the Support Group for kids that survived cancer and Augustus' house.  The main character, Hazel has beaten cancer but still has bad lungs.  She is also depressed so her mom makes her go a support group to try and make her to be more social. At the support group she met Augustus. Hazel and Augustus live in Indianapolis.  It hasn't been said yet when the story is occurring.

There isn't much description about the setting but in chapter two there was a great description of how Hazel looked when she was 14 and still battling cancer, "I was looking pretty dead-my hands and feet ballooned; my skin cracked; my lips were perpetually blue."  I think john Green did a great job at making the reader visualize Hazel.  I can see her in my head as a young fragile girl lying down in a hospital bed.

Why I chose The Fault in Our Stars

After lots of nagging from my friends, I finally got the book The Fault in Our Stars.  My friends have been bugging me for a long time that I should read it.  I wasn't so sure about reading this book because I've heard thats it's REALLY sad.  I don't typically like being sad or reading sad books, I like to be happy. :)  But so many people have said they loved it so I finally gave in and picked up the book from Half Price Books.  I haven't read any of it yet because I just finished reading Perks Of Being a Wallflower. 

I have already heard that the book is mainly about two cancer patients that fall in love.  But I have a few predictions.  I predict that one of the two main charactors are going to die from cancer.  I predict this because people have said that this book is really sad, and if the two main characters are fighting cancer then it just seems like a giveaway that someone will die.

About John Green

I just got the book The Fault In Our Stars.  A lot of people have told me they loved this book and that i should read it too, so i decided that I would give it a try.  This book is written by John Green.  John Green was born in Indianapolis, but moved to Orlando, Florida three weeks later.  He graduated from Kenyon College in 2000 with a double major in English and Religious Studies.  After college Green worked in a children's hospital for five months.  He originally planned to be an Episcopal Priest, but while he was working in the children's hospital, it inspired him to become an author, and later wrote The Fault In Our Stars.  

In 2007, Green and his brother, Hank, started a YouTube Channel called "vlogbrothers".  They communicate by text only and they vlog at the same time.  They also had another YouTube channel where thy would host game shows called the HankGames which is mostly footage of video games.

John Green now lives in Indianapolis, Indiana with his wife Sarah. John and Sarah have two kids, Alice and Henry.  The family also has a West Highland Terrier named Willy.

Perks of Being a Wallflower-Charlie is a dynamic character

I just finished reading the book Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky.  Charlie is considered a dynamic character because he changes a lot throughout the story.   The book is mainly about a high school freshman, Charlie, who is considered an outcast by his peers and didn't have friends in the beginning.  On page 18 he wrote about when he went to the school football game, "I went alone because Michael is gone, and Susan hangs around different boys now..." (Chbosky,18).

Evenutally Charlie became friends with 2 seniors and they introduced him to other people.  Charlie became much more social and even went to lots of parties and hung out with friends.  On page 197 Charlie wrote, "Every night, we would all get together after Sam had just said goodbye to some uncle or had another lunch with her mom or done more shopping for school things."  Charlie became really good friends with Sam and her brother Patrick.

I also noticed that Charlie seemed very depressed in the beginning of the book because he was really sad that his best friend Michael committed suicide.  But once he found new friends and became more social, he was talking less of sad things and more of happy things.

Perks of Being a Wallflower setting

Right now I'm reading the book Perks of Being a Wallflower.  The main character, Charlie, is a freshman in highschool and he is considered a misfit among the other students.  So far this book mainly takes place during 1991 at school and some school football games.  Charlie used to go to the school football games with his only friend, Michael.  But Michael committed suicide so Charlie is left with no friends.  Charlie continued to go to the football games but he went alone, until he met two seniors, Sam and Patrick.  Sam and Patrick, were very friendly and befriend him and let him join their group of friends. The football game is a very important setting in this book because it began Charlie's friendship with Sam and Patrick.  Sam and Patrick take Charlie to many parties where there are lots of drugs and alcohol.  Most of Sam and Patrick's friends are very nice to Charlie but they are a bad influence on Charlie, they offer him drugs and alcohol and sometimes Charlie agrees to try some.  When Charliewent to his first party with Patrick and Sam he described it as, "The party was in the basement of this house.  The room was quite smokey, and the kids were much older.  There were two girls showing each other their tattoos and belly button rings.  Seniors, I think." (page 34, paragraph 1).