Hazel is a fictional character, and she is in many important ways very different from the person Esther was." Īuthor John Green also drew inspiration for the book from his time spent working as a student chaplain at a children's hospital. All that said, I really don't want to seem to be appropriating Esther's story, which belongs to her and to her family and not to me. I have been poked and stabbed and poisoned for years, and still I trod on. But she was also silly and funny and totally normal. "What inspired me most," says Green, "was Esther's unusual mix of teenagerness and empathy: She was a very outwardly focused person, very conscious of and attentive to her friends and family. "So much of the story was inspired by her and my friendship with her and my affection for her family and friends," says author John Green, "but I didn't take very many specific things (except for superficial stuff like the oxygen and whatnot)." Esther died of thyroid cancer on Augat age sixteen. This item: The Fault in Our Stars: John Green by John Green Paperback £7.85 Five Feet Apart by Rachael Lippincott Paperback £6. This absorbing novel, a New York Times bestseller, shows award-winning writer, John Green, at his un-rivalled best. The Fault in Our Stars book and subsequent movie were inspired in part by Esther Earl (pictured above, right). In addition to helping break pre-sale movie ticket records for a romantic drama, fans have created The Fault in Our Stars t-shirts and artwork like the tee above.
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