1.

Title of book:

The fault in our stars

2.Summary of the story:

this book illustrates the daily life of Hazel Grace, a cancer-stricken teenage girl, and the challenges
she encounters along the walks of life.

3.Favourite character:

I enjoy Hazel Grace, the female protagonist, as a character. This is because of her personality. She
meets Augustus Waters, a special boy who later becomes a close person to her, only to eventually
pass on unexpectedly. The story elucidates beautifully Hazel’s cancer-stricken, daily life and how she
goes about each day, with worries and fears, and yet showing a brave front. I also really like how her
heartbreak regarding Augustus’ death is illustrated so powerfully.

4. unfamiliar words:

(a) “V for Vendetta”

Vendetta: (1) a blood feud in which the family of a murdered person seeks vengeance on the
murderer or the murderer's family.

(2) a prolonged bitter quarrel with or campaign against someone

E.g., "He has accused the British media of pursuing a vendetta against him"

(b) “in mortal peril”

Peril: serious and immediate danger

E.g., “you could well place us both in peril”

(c) “An Imperial Affliction”

Affliction: a cause of pain or harm.
E.g., “a crippling affliction of the nervous system"

(d) “I enjoyed being coy”

Coy: (1) making a pretence of shyness or modesty which is intended to be alluring.

E.g., "she treated him to a coy smile of invitation"

(2) reluctant to give details about something regarded as sensitive.

E.g., "he is coy about his age"

(e) “the sense of sight itself is tenuous”

Tenuous: very weak or slight.

E.g., "the tenuous link between interest rates and investment"

(f) “my bereft cohort.”

Bereft: (1) deprived of or lacking (something).

E.g., "her room was stark and bereft of colour"

(2) (of a person) sad and lonely, especially through someone's death or departure.

E.g., "his death in 1990 left her bereft"

(g) “You said he is a recluse?”

Recluse: a person who lives a solitary life and tends to avoid other people.
E.g., "she has turned into a virtual recluse"

(h) “you no doubt revile”

Revile: criticize in an abusive or angrily insulting manner.

E.g., "he was now reviled by the party that he had helped to lead"

(i) “angst-encumbered sixteen-year-olds”

Angst: a feeling of deep anxiety or dread, typically an unfocused one about the human condition
or the state of the world in general.

E.g., "the existential angst of the middle classes"

(j) “Inexorable truth”

Inexorable: (1) impossible to stop or prevent.

E.g., "the seemingly inexorable march of new technology"

(2) (of a person) impossible to persuade; unrelenting.

E.g., "the doctors were inexorable, and there was nothing to be done"
(k) “A bodily sovereignty”

Sovereignty: (1) supreme power or authority.

E.g., "the sovereignty of Parliament"

(2) the authority of a state to govern itself or another state.

E.g., "national sovereignty"

(3) a self-governing state

(l) ““Ludicrous,” I said.”

Ludicrous: so foolish, unreasonable, or out of place as to be amusing.

E.g., "it's ludicrous that I have been fined"

(m) “Like a patient etherized upon a table.”

Etherize: anaesthetize (a person or animal) with ether.

E.g., "the blood samples were obtained from a pair of etherized frogs"

(n) “I disavow everything in that putrid novel,”

Disavow: deny any responsibility or support for.

E.g., "the union leaders resisted pressure to disavow picket-line violence"

(o) “…keep his addled attention on my questions.”

Addled: (1) unable to think clearly; confused.

E.g., “this might just be my addled brain playing tricks"
(2) (of an egg) rotten.

(p) “the beauty of innuendos”

Innuendo: an allusive or oblique remark or hint, typically a suggestive or disparaging one.

E.g., "she's always making sly innuendoes"

(q) “trying to think of a way to extricate himself…”

Extricate: free (someone or something) from a constraint or difficulty.

E.g., "he was trying to extricate himself from official duties"
(r) “…had a hamartia after all.”

Hamartia: a fatal flaw leading to the downfall of a tragic hero or heroine.

E.g., "there's supposed to be an action that reveals the protagonist's hamartia"

(s) “…headed down to the basement to commiserate…”

Commiserate: express or feel sympathy or pity; sympathize.

E.g., "she went over to commiserate with Rose on her unfortunate circumstances"

(t) “irrevocably robbed of his ambitions.”

Irrevocable: in a way that cannot be changed, reversed, or recovered.

E.g., “my life changed irrevocably in an instant"

5. interesting descriptions:

“In the distance, soaked in the unblemished sunlight so rare and precious in our hometown…”

“…there was nothing they could do to dim the supernovae exploding inside my brain, an endless
chain of intracranial firecrackers…”

“I nodded and sank into an aqueous sleep.”

“The dead are visible only in the terrible lidless eye of memory.”

“The living, thank heaven, retain the ability to surprise and to disappoint.”

“Then I am a cancer-fighting machine.”

“They might be glad to have me around, but I was the alpha and the omega of my parents’
suffering.”

“…it really felt like we were back in that uncreated third space…”

“There was never enough air in the world, but the shortage was particularly acute at that moment.”