Hazel Grace Lancaster starts her story by telling,
that her mother thinks she´s depressed. Her doctor agree, so she has
to attend a weekly cancer group. The leader of the group is a cancer
survivor named Patrick, who hat cancer in his balls. Patrick talks
constantly about the fact, that they meet in the heart of Jesus. In
the meeting Hazel introduces herself, she is sixteen and originally
had thyroid cancer, though it spread to her lungs too.
The only part of Support Group she likes is a guy
named Isaac, who lost an eye to cancer and mybe lose his eye light.
They both talk through sights.
After a few weeks Hazel meets a new and beautiful boy
at Support Group, who stares directly at her. His name is Augustus
Waters and he support Isaac, who will soon lose his second eye to
cancer too.
Augustus is a survivor of osterosarcoma and when
Patrick asks what the fears, he says "oblivion".
Hazel, who rarely speaks, says to the group that
eventually everyone will be dead and everything humanity has built
will have been for naught. She learned this from her favourite book
"An Imperial Affliction" by Peter Van Houten.
After the meeting Isaac introduces Augustus and
Hazel. Augustus says Hazel reminds him of Natalie Portman in "V
for Vendetta". The two flirt and watch Isaac make out with his
girlfriend, Monica.
Placing a cigarette between his lip, Augustus invites
Hazel to his place to watch "V for Vendetta". Hazel is
disgusted by the cigarette but reconsiders when Augustus explains,
that he never lights it. Rather enjoy the metaphorical resonance of
putting something that kills between his teeth and denying it the
power to kill him.
