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For example, Augustus tells a completely realistic story when he is describing his ex-girlfriend, Caroline Mathers, to Hazel. He tells her that she died of brain cancer and had a tumor that changed her personality and turned her into a mean, nasty person. In life when people die of a horrible disease or even just by accident, we tend to forget all of their flaws and bad traits and just talk about the amazing person they were and all the things they did for others. Augustus is realistic about his relationship with Caroline, and he tells Hazel how she truly was instead of glorifying her because she is not alive anymore. Caroline treated Augustus badly, and even made fun of him for not having a leg. Although it is not right to talk bad about the dead, Augustus tells the truth about Caroline because he cannot lie and say she was a good person. The biggest example of John Green’s realistic perspective he uses in The Fault in Our Stars is instead of writing a perfect happy ending, he shows the heartbreaking side of Augustus and Hazel’s love story. They do not both end up beating cancer, getting married, and living happily ever after. Instead, Augustus’s cancer becomes too much for his body to handle and he eventually loses the fight to his disease and to stay alive to be with Hazel. This may turn some readers off from this novel because of how realistic and sad it is, but
