Identity in John Green's The Fault in Our Stars

They do not keep in secret their "insufficiency" and boldly show them to each other, because it is hard to surprise a cancer patient. In addition, Hazel tries to ensure Augustus that she understands him and does not consider their illnesses to be embarrassing. When she "found him mumbling in a language of his own creation"(Green, 239), the girl does not run away or stop all contact, she finds ways to help him and persuades that "[she has] pissed the bad ... It's no big deal". Hazel tries to not notice Augustus' transformations from a muscular hot guy to a weak boy and keeps treating him as a normal healthy person. Therefore, Augustus and Hazel are honest with each other, they do not keep secrets and share their cancer's

No matter how old you are, you might know what It feels like to lose a loved one. Hazel Grace has never been anything but terminal, until she meets Augustus Waters, and that’s when her story is about to be completely rewritten. The novel is an emotional roller coaster dealing with first loves, terminal illnesses, secrets, passion and trust. In the novel, The Fault In Our Stars, Hazel Grace must go through what any person with a terminal disease must go through and beyond that: overcoming a terminal disease, love, and fear.

Augustus accepts the fact that he has cancer. He has the mindset as “I have cancer so I need to accept it and enjoy the rest of the days I have”. For an example, he puts an unlit cigarette is his mouth explaining it is a metaphor. “They don’t kill you unless you light them,” he said as my mom arrived at the curb. “And I’ve never lit one. It’s a metaphor, see: You put the killing thing right between your teeth, but you don’t give it the power to do the killing” (Green 20). He is also confident is his ability to be a good friend. His presence exhilarates the entire room. He shows up to support group because Isaac requested him to go with him. “My name is Augustus Waters,” he said. “I’m seventeen. I had a little touch of osteosarcoma a year and a half ago, but I’m just here today at Isaacs’s request” (Green 11). He is a good friend to Hazel as well, Hazel feels comfortable around him and is able to tell him whatever. Gus is confident in his

“The marks humans leave are too often scars,” Augustus says. This means that we try to leave something behind to be remembered, too often though, it is scars. We want to be remembered, but whenever we get close to someone we leave a mark on them. Augustus Waters wants to be remembered as someone great and has made a mark on many people. Hazel Grace on the other hand has very few friends. Her goal is to keep the casualties to a minimum. She knows that one day the cancer is going to win and she doesn't want a lot of people to be there when the inevitable happens. Hazel and Gus's relationship has a couple of pauses due to Hazel not wanting to leave a mark on Gus that will later become a scar. Unfortunately, these scars come

Furthermore, in The Fault in Our Stars a strong bond is formed between Hazel Grace and Augustus. Prior to their romantic relationship they came to love each other’s thoughts and ideas on the universe, life and death. Their initial friendship is once again quite remarkable, as in the beginning of the story, Hazel cared for very little, and kept most of her thoughts to herself; but when Augustus comes into her life, she feels compelled to share her ideas and start to wonder about what she could leave for the world after she is dead and gone.

Imagine having the disease, cancer. Or, feeling like a social outcast who carries around an oxygen tank to stay alive. Imagine your world was pretty much pointless until finding someone equally sick and equally corky as yourself. This is how 16 year old, Thyroid Cancer patient, Hazel Grace Lancaster lived her life. When her mother see how depressed Hazel is she forces her daughter to attend a cancer support group. She goes through the motions and shares that her lungs are weak but Gus Waters ,Osteosarcoma patient, is not interested in learning about her sickness, but is interesting in her. ¨What? I asked. Nothing, he said. Why are you looking at me like that? Augustus half smiled. ¨Because you're beautiful.¨ (Green 16)

Hazel Grace has thyroid cancer. The cancer spread to her lungs and nearly killed her. Her lungs do not work well, so she carries an oxygen tank with her at all times. She goes to a Support Group with other kids who have cancer. During one meeting, Hazel meets Augustus Waters, who shows a keen interest in her. They go to Gus(Augustus)’s house and watch a movie. Hazel and Gus trade their favorite books, which are An Imperial Affliction, and Counterinsurgence 2: The Price of Dawn, respectively. AIA ends very abruptly, and both Hazel and Gus want to find out what happens to the characters after the novel ends. Gus calls Hazel because his friend Isaac is having a mental breakdown. Later, Isaac loses both his eyes to eye cancer. Gus invites Hazel to a picnic in a park behind a museum. Augustus reveals that he has arranged for them to go to Amsterdam and meet the author of AIA, Peter Van Houten. A few days later, Hazel experiences extreme abdominal pain. She is told that her lungs were filling with fluid. She spends a few days at the hospital but recovers. Hazel’s mom is wary about Hazel going on the trip because she might have a recurrence of her pain.

Augustus and Hazel keep each other hoping for the best in their tragic lives and they make each other forget they are set back by having cancer. After him and Hazel first meet sheasks him why the hell he is smoking a cigarette because she knows that cigarettes cause cancer. He responds and says, “ You put the killing thing right between your teeth, but you don’t give it the power to do the killing.” (p.63). This is one of the many things Augustus does to make his diagnoses of cancer seem as little as possible and makes him think that he has some control of his life. Augustus also makes Hazel like her life for brief moments. When Hazel was with Augustus talking about how she forgets having cancer. She described this moment with him as, “ The space around us evaporated, and for a weird moment I really liked my body; this cancer-ruined thing I’d spent years dragging around suddenly seemed worth the struggle worth the chest tubes and the PICC lines and the ceaseless bodily betrayal of the tumors.” (p.203). This highlights how their relationship

Augustus is Hazel's boyfriend. Shown as a charming, witty, active young man, Gus over plans Dutch themed picnics for Hazel and himself, and saves digital children from their deaths, sacrificing himself. One of Augustus's main gripes about dying is living a more meaningful life; one that will be viewed on with honor and respect. He is so concerned about this that even Hazel considers faking an act of helplessness for him to make him sastified. However, Augustus has failed to realize the fact that he has lived a more meaningful life. This shows that he can be somewhat ignorant of reality and is an overachiever. Even after he has changed Hazel for good, he still undergoes the feeling of insecurity in the meaning of his life.

- The next day, Hazel goes to visit Augustus while his doing his cancer treatment

In the book “The Fault in Our Stars” the main character’s name is Hazel and takes place in Indianapolis. Hazel has cancer in her lungs and could die. She meets a guy named Augustus Waters, he had cancer too. Hazel loves Augustus but the only

Augustus on the other hand feared of oblivion, wanted to be remembered, and didn’t accept the fact that death will be the endpoint. This made him live his day to the very fullest every single day. He treated his parents the same way he did after and before he was diagnosed with cancer. This was the difference between how Hazel Grace and Augustus had dealt with their sickness. But, both of them loved each other without any doubt and both did care for each other.

In TFIOS, Hazel Grace Lancaster has been living with cancer for a few years and due to an experimental drug called Phalanxifor, she has the opportunity to live longer. Despite her cancer, Hazel is a selfless, and considerate girl, who is incredible empathetic towards her parents due to the situation she has put them in for having to care for her. As a young adult, instead of exploring herself away from her parents, Hazel finds herself in constant need of her parents. During a support group session at a church, Hazel meets a handsome boy named Augustus (aka Gus), who is currently in remission from osteosarcoma, and even though Hazel likes him she is hesitant to start a relationship with him because she does not want her illness to hurt him the

In The Fault in our Stars, by John Green, Hazel Grace Lancaster hardest decision is whether to be with Augustus Waters or not. Although, this might seem like a simple decision but for Hazel this decision changed who Hazel was as a person. John Green demonstrates how Hazel decisions make an effect on her when she egged Isaac's, Augustus best friends, girlfriends, car, “You see, we may not look like much but between the three of us we have five legs, four eyes and two and a half working pairs of lungs but we also have two dozen eggs so if I were you, I would go back inside.” She never had the encouragement to go have some fun, take risks and live life before she met Augustus. After Isaac's girlfriends broke up with him because of his cancer

Hazel realizes that having cancer encourages people to treat her differently. Because of this, she attempts to avoid interaction and communication with others so they do not get hurt when her life ends. In order to cut down her emotional stress, she tries understand that the world does not revolve around her and her pain will eventually go away.Hazel’s main focus was just how pain might eat you up mentally, but would not do anything in your life but make it worse. Pain in the end