The only thing that disappoints Hazel is that the book is not finished. Hazel tells Augustus about her most favourite story – the story of a girl dying of cancer just like Hazel. They have a lot in common they discuss films and books and spend a lot of time together.

He attends the sessions of the support group to help his friend Isaac who has cancer. He has one leg amputated, the state of his health seems better than that of Hazel. She hopes it will help the girl to socialise. Hazel’ mother insists on her joining a support group. Hazel suffers not only physically but emotionally as well feeling very lonely and depressed. She undergoes the treatment but a new drug she is treated with does not guarantee the remission.

The disease is incurable and no one knows how much time is left for the girl. The book tells the story of two young people who are dying of cancer, their love and struggle to make each others’ lives better and brighter. The book was published in 2012 and was on the New York Times list of the best-selling books. The novel is written by John Green, one of the most known authors of fiction for youth. 'So in addition to having to deal with the physical effects of illness and disability you also have to deal with the social stigma and that's really unfortunate.The Fault in Our Stars is a piece of young adult fiction which combines the elements of a love story and a drama. 'One of the really difficult things about doing this is that it can be socially isolating,' Green added. Their lives are every bit as rich and complex and important and meaningful as any others.' They’re capable of love and they have all the same desires as other people. My experience has always been, that the people who are chronically ill are also many other things. A lot of times I think that, from the outside, maybe we imagine sick people as being defined by their illness or as being simply, merely sick. 'They aren’t entirely defined by their illness or by their disability. “I guess I wanted to show that people living with illness are also doing many other things,' Green told us.

Ultimately, Greene says his decision behind writing the book was to write about illness. I read a lot of memoirs, textbooks about the disease so that I could try to understand it.' 'I also talked to a lot of oncologists and I read a lot about the disease. 'It was very important to me to talk to a lot of people who were living with cancer or who had children, other family members, die of cancer,' said Green.

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