The Perfection in Relation

So many of my classmates have read John Green's The Fault in Our Stars, and had become obsessed with the literature. After hearing about its excellence & looking up the story line a couple of weeks ago just to get the gist of the book, I felt completely compelled to read it when i was on the computer in the library and the book was weirdly & literally right next to me (on Mrs. Hadjipanayis' new and exciting spinny book shelves). Only a few periods had passed by since i had gotten this book, and i was already close to being half way finished. First  of all, the age relevance of "Hazel Grace" to me automatically allowed a connection to develop between the main character and myself. Although i have no way of relating to her in the area of great sickness, let alone terminal cancer, i can connect with the feelings she has towards her parents, her friends, and her new love - "Gus". The way Hazel describes everything throughout the novel is humorous yet tragic. This piece of literature is delicious in the incredibly constructed adjectival phrases and it is in fact the language of this book is what helped me connect so deeply to the characters. Each of the characters sound practically like they're writing an essay with every conversation they have. Hazel's description of absolutely every event and the way she relays every situation to the reader is absolutely captivating, making me feel like i'll miss her when her impending demise arrives. The parents of Hazel are going through just about the roughest point in their lives, and just as Hazel points out, the only thing worse than biting it from cancer at sixteen is having your kid bite it from cancer at sixteen. The struggle they're going through is evident throughout the novel, but with every situation they are faced with, Hazel's parents give the reader little glimpses of how they are similar to many real life parents. Hazel's friend Kaitlyn also demonstrates true characteristics of a friend who has a friend suffering from cancer. The way Kaitlyn struggles to get comfortable with the entire ordeal is completely realistic and is basically the way i feel that i would handle such a case. Finally, the love shared between Hazel and Gus is magical and at points seems too good to be true. But i mean if you took any young relationship there are bound to be moments that seem completely perfect and impossible. The way these two people mesh together at such rough points in there lives is beautiful, and the way each of them drown their situations in humor makes things all that better. They help each other, as anyone in love would, but in this case the two people were obviously put in each others lives to help one another live an all around better life. Although i have never experienced such a horrible events in my own life, i am able to see how one may suffer from such situations, and i am also able to connect to this book through each and every character's realistic nature.