The Fault in Our Stars is a modern story about the trials, and tribulations of your average teenagers suffering from cancer. The stories protagonist Hazel Grace has a very real take on death, as she has always known herself to be dying; never knowing the time when her cancer will finally take her. Trying to live life to the fullest, though an introvert Hazel eventually meats a boy who has opened her mind, and heart to living with the life she has
If you like books that are comedic, realistic and have a spice of awkward teenage romance, you will fall head over heals for this story. A reoccurring motif within this book is drowning. In the story Hazel always refers to herself as drowning. This can be taken literally and metaphorically, as hazels lungs are slowly filling with liquid and she is drowning from the emotional effects of cancer. Drowning shows that Hazel can‘t handle 4y