She succeeds, and when Patrick asks Augustus for his diagnosis (osteosarcoma a year and a half before) and about his fears (to which Augustus responds 'oblivion' (p.12)), Hazel makes a speech about lack of meaning to which Augustus responds 'Goddamn.aren't you something else' (p.13).Īfter Support Group, Isaac, Augustus, and Hazel talk together. He is Isaac’s friend, introduced to the group as Augustus, and Hazel decides not to be threatened by his stare but to stare back at him until he looks away first. One week not too long after joining the support group, Hazel attends one week - pausing to explain to the reader that she must take certain supporting technologies with her everywhere, namely an oxygen tank attached to a cannula that delivers oxygen directly to her nostrils - to find a hot boy, new to the group, staring at her. Hazel tells the reader about herself and her diagnosis through her interactions at Support Group - she introduces herself each meeting along with the fact that she has thyroid cancer that has spread to her lungs, always saying that she's 'okay.' She doesn't like anyone in the group, including the leader Patrick who once had testicular cancer, besides a teenage boy named Isaac who lost his eye to cancer and may be losing another.

Another side effect of dying, according to Hazel, is her depression, and though she sees this as normal and incurable, her mother talks to one of her many doctors and gets her set up with antidepressants and a regularly meeting support group for youths with cancer. Green currently lives in Indianapolis with his wife and two kids, where he continues to write, produce videos, and speak publicly about an array of topics.Hazel is a 16-year-old girl with cancer, which she calls a 'side effect of dying' (p.3). He followed that first novel with An Abundance of Katherines (2006), Paper Towns (2008), and The Fault in Our Stars (2012), which reached #1 on the New York Times bestseller list for children.

During this time he wrote his first novel, Looking for Alaska (2005) to immediate, and increasing, success. He lived in Chicago for several years, writing book reviews, writing for radio, and working in publishing. He never attended divinity school, however, because his experience working in the hospital with children suffering from life-threatening illnesses inspired him to become a writer. After graduating from Kenyon, Green worked in a children’s hospital while he enrolled in divinity school with the intention of becoming an Episcopal Priest.

Later, he attended Kenyon College where he graduated in 2000 with a double major in English and Religious Studies. During his youth, he attended Indian Springs School, a boarding school near Birmingham, Alabama. Immediately after his birth, Green’s parents moved to Orlando, Florida. John Green was born in Indianapolis, Indiana.

The Fault in Our Stars by John Green