The Fault Of Our Stars By John Green

The relatable personas of the characters are undoubtedly the strongest aspect of this novel. Readers are guided through the life of a cancer patient, hand-in-hand with Hazel, through the use of first person narrative perspective. Each of the characters have their own unique story which is beautifully portrayed in Hazel’s mind. Despite the lyrical and detailed descriptions, the novel has a wonderful pace, not lagging at

Augustus realizes that a lot of people let their cancer identify them, which it seems at first like Hazel does. Through the novel Augustus mentions multiple times how he wants his life to mean something other than cancer. “I fear that I won’t be able to give anything in exchange for my life. If you don’t live a life in service of a greater good, you’ve gotta

The book The Fault In Our Stars by John Green is about a teenage girl named Hazel who has had a type of lung cancer since she was thirteen years old. Hazel had always felt pain throughout her life, weather it was emotional or physical pain because of her cancer, or losing important things to her. After Hazel met Augustus though, her thoughts about life began to change. In this book, the author used a lot of figurative language and some symbolism to show the reader exactly how the Hazel and other characters were feeling, so the reader could almost feel what the character was feeling.

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)

I was surprised that Augustus Waters was the character that died. Throughout the entire story, it was made to think that Hazel Grace Lancaster was the furthest in her fight against cancer. Hazel’s favorite author wrote a letter to Augustus saying, “Everyone in this tale [life] has a rock-solid hamartia: hers, that she is so sick; yours, that you are so well.” (Green 111) In other words, I would have imagined Hazel to pass away first because she seemed more ill than Augustus. It was a major plot twist considering he was cancer-free for quite some time and it just randomly came back to him.

The Fault in Our Stars by John Green portrays a story full of importance and wisdom. Throughout the book, Green alludes to the idea that fatality and illness does not always transpire into a grim subject. Augustus Waters expresses the most important passage in the story when he writes to his and his girlfriend’s favorite author, Van Houten, saying, “[y]ou don’t get to chose if you get hurt in this world…but you do have some say in who hurts you” (Green 313). Waters’ words show that whom one hurts or gets hurt by becomes a determinable thing. The story in itself builds up to this idea and shows it as an incredible, life-changing concept. The Fault in Our Stars tells a love story of two teenagers, Hazel Grace Lancaster and Augustus Waters, that believe in the concept of predestined pain, but it also shows them fighting to love each other despite the realization that one of them will become hurt due to an inevitable thing, death. The idea that pain inescapable becomes somewhat unsettling, but Green puts comfort into the idea by showing its capability of alteration to the point of determining the culprit of the paint. Augustus’ words, “…you do have some say in who hurts you”

John Green’s novel, The Fault in Our Stars, is a heartbreaking tale of love lived through the eyes of Hazel Grace Lancaster with her boyfriend Augustus Waters. However, with their everlasting affection, came a price. It is true, that “Everyone in this tale has a rock-solid hamartia” (Green 111). The horror of their lives was impending death that comes with their cancer. It was the disease that which brought them together, and ultimately, is the same cancer to sever their bond. Although Hazel’s fears could have suppressed her actions, the motif of fear within The Fault in Our Stars serves to contribute the message that fear keeps people open to the truth and serves as a motivator.

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

It’s more about learning to cope with adversity and making the most of life because there’s a limited amount of time Hazel and Augustus spend together. The novel itself was pretty deep, but it was to the point that I (as a 15 year old teenager) could still understand and appreciate it. The part that got me the most was the ending because it was extremely emotional for me to read about Augustus dying and his funeral. It was realistic, honest and gave you real life expectations of what being in love is really when you’re dying is like, instead of the cliche “oh everything is great and nothing bad ever happens” version.The theme of love is what made “The Fault In Our Stars” an emotional, insightful, raw and truthful

17-year-old, Hazel Grace Lancaster, has Thyroid Cancer who goes to a cancer patient support group where she meets a boy named Augustus Waters. He is at the cancer patient support group to help support his friend who lost his eye due to cancer and is going to lose the other eye. Augustus is now cancer free after he got his leg amputated. Augustus and Hazel hang out after the support group and talk about what type of cancer they have/had.

Hazel Grace is an average teenage girl except for the fact that she has cancer. Hazel is in a support group when a boy catches her eye the boy is named Augustus. Soon enough Hazel and Augustus are really close friends and to talk to each other about everything. Hazel shares her favourite book “An Imperial Affliction,” Augustus or Gus somehow gets through to the author and Hazel emails him, he invites her to come to Amsterdam to discuss the ending of the book.

In the novel, The Fault in Our Stars, the author, John Green, provides the reader with a theme that people tend to differ other people who do not appear to be the same as every other average human being. People would contradict this universal truth, but it cannot be denied.

The foremost character of the story was named Hazel Grace Lancaster. She is a sixteen-year-old girl. Hazel is also living with cancer. While the doctors have been able to remove the cancer from Hazel 's body, her lungs are damaged. Because of the lung damage, Hazel is not expected to live a full life, and she has to wheel around an oxygen tank.

Unsurprisingly for a novel about adolescents dying of cancer, suffering is an outstanding component of the character’s lives. Hazel, Augustus,

Interestingly, Augustus got in contact with a charity that gives cancer kids a wish. Augustus decided to use his for the two of them to go on a trip to Amsterdam to meet Peter and Lidewij. In the midst of this, Hazel painfully experiences her lungs filling up with fluid causing her to be rushed to the hospital. She lives, however her personal doctors say she isn’t healthy enough to go to Amsterdam. During one of her cancer meetings, one of her doctors, Dr. Maria, says that Hazel should live her life, convincing