The Fault In Our Stars Journal Entry

My favorite character is Marv. When we first meet Marv he is a simple guy that seems like he has nothing going for him. He drives an old, barely working Falcon. He has so much money but lives like he has nothing. He is always talking about how much money he has saved up in the bank for a “rainy day.” However, there is more to Marv than what he is introduced to as. It is not until the end of the book that Marv’s story comes out. As we get to know Marv, we learn that he bought his car as a teen to take out his girlfriend Suzanne Boyd who later moved out of town. Because of the last card, Ed finds out the real reason Suzanne left town and he needs to help Marv. Even though they are best friends, he never told anyone about what really happened. Ed says, “Marv is suffering, completely alone, and he uses all of those things to sweep the guilt from his stomach every day.” (Zusak 317) Suzanne and Marv would go to a corn field and spend the nights there until one day she got pregnant. That’s when her father took her away from the town and Marv without a word. He knows he has a child, but he doesn’t know how it is, what it looks like, or even the gender of it. With the help of Ed, he finally gets the courage to go to her house but the father kicks him out. The next day Ed takes him to meet Suzanne and his daughter at a park. Even Ed gets choked up, “Marv’s smile and the giant glass tears on his face are two of the most beautiful things I’ve ever seen.” (Zusak 330) In Marv I saw a

One of the things about the book that I personally liked was the characters, some of them were easy to relate to, even if you couldn't you could relate someone you knew with them. For example, David is not one of the main characters from the story but the more you learn about him, the more you realize how ambitious he is, wanted to change his career path almost every week, standing up to Mr. Neck. I think he's one of the things that helped Melinda find her voice.

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

She desperately starts to look for this last testament with hope that she could have changed something. Later comes depression; in the finding and hunting for Gus’s last testament she feels frustrated and slowly starts to depress. Until that spark of flame ignites her and she reaches the last stage of grief, which is acceptance. She finally finds the last testament which ends with this: “You don’t get to choose if you get hurt in this world but you do have a say in who hurts you, and I like my choices, and I hope she likes hers. Okay, Hazel Grace?”. (Green. 313) With her response being: I do. Peter Van Houten became a monster after he lost his daughter to Leukemia. He is a symbol of what you can become if you do not overcome grief. John Green was wise when incorporating him to the novel because he put him as a species of foreshadowing tool of what could have happened if Hazel would not have accepted Augustus’s death. She saw that and she accepted

When reading the book, I knew who my favorite character and least favorite character were right away. My favorite character was Lily. she is a very relatable character who goes against all odds to try to find out what happened to her mother. My least favorite character was T. Ray. He was a lazy and abusive excuse for a parent who should be put in jail for what he's done to Lily.

Hazel grace is a dynamic character because she changes throughout the story. In the beginning, Hazel doesn’t want to get close to Augustus, because she was afraid he is going to be shattered when she dies. But towards the ending, hazel finds out it doesn’t matter if you die in the middle of a relationship, it’s about the moments you spend together. A quote in the book, on page 214, “Only now that I loved a grenade did I understand the foolishness of trying to save others from my own impending fragmentation: I couldn’t unlove Augustus Waters. And I didn’t want to.”

It’s interesting watching each character develop for better or worse, especially the father who continues to incite the same emotion from you throughout the whole story until the end as well as the oldest daughter. But as much as you remember they are just characters in a book, you know that there are people out there that share the views as these close-minded characters. There are moments when I wanted to scream, cry and just throw the book across the room because of certain events that occurred, but I could not turn the book

The only complaint of the novel that I have is its lack of details of the characters. Through most of the story tall soldier, loud soldier, tattered soldier, and the youth are used. I would have like to see more details to help me further visualize the characters in my head. While visual descriptions are very important to me, I think the author might have done this to bring more attention to the inner thoughts and feelings of the main character, Henry.

The Fault in Our Stars, a novel written by John Green and published on January 10, 2012, is a traditional love story complicated by cancer featuring main character Hazel Grace Lancaster, a spirited young woman with cancer who falls in love with Augustus Waters (Gus), who also has cancer. This book is one of John Green’s most popular novels, leaving teens all around the world in love with this book, which was created into a movie two years after it was published on June 6, 2014, starring Shailene Woodley as Hazel Grace Lancaster and Ansel Elgort as Gus. During the introduction of The Fault in Our Stars, one of the first pages contains only one line; “Dedicated to Esther Earl.” The Fault in Our Stars is a heartwarming love story about cancer victim Hazel Grace Lancaster who

Firstly, within the novel, it is clear that Hazel is a caring person and is fully aware of what her body’s condition does to her

They give each other books to read before the next time they hang out. When Gus doesn’t respond after a week from the last time they hung out, Hazel gets scared. Gus soon calls her and gives her his thoughts on the book. They plan another date. In chapter three, Hazel goes to the mall with her old friend.

The novel begins when Hazel is going to a cancer support group because her mother thinks she is depressed. During the support group meeting, she meets a handsome boy named Augustus Waters who suffered from osteosarcoma, a bone cancer, although is also is

John Green used Esther’s personality as Hazel’s personality and he realized the connection of writing in Hazel’s point of view as he progresses in writing the book. John Green met Esther Earl in 2008 as a thyroid cancer patient at age 16. She died at age 16 but she lived her life the fullest without any regret which played as a motivation for John Green to write about the book in a humorous way. “ [He] couldn’t reconcile [himself] to looking at it honestly, and being hopeful. [And] reading should be fun; [He] wanted to write something that was funny and evocative of life and embraced life” ( Castellitto 2). John Green introduced Hazel from her perspective using the same exact cancer that Esther Earl had “I’m Hazel… sixteen. Thyroid originally but with an impressive and long settled satellite colony in my lungs” (Green 5). John Green’s novel had many inspiration and experience in his life which made it easier for him to write this novel in a sad yet humorous way.

I think that one of the characters that I notices the most was Peter. He was the author of the book Imperial Affliction, which Hazel Grace and Augustus Waters both read and found something in common. They both loved this story so much that they went to Amsterdam where Peter lived and confronted him in order to find out the untold ending. When they realize a few things about Peter (he is a total jerk, drunkard, and that he didn't even write the end of his book) and his book, they just decide to forget him. But later on, at the ending of the book when the tide turns and Augustus Waters washes away, Peter Van Houten shows up and reveals his characters flaws happened because of his children's deaths. This made me sit up and appreciate the making of this character, and the authors creativeness throughout the book. I think the irony in this character is that many older people are like this but

The book revolves around 16 year old Hazel Grace Lancaster, and 17 year old Augustus Waters. Hazel doesn’t lead an ordinary teenage life, she suffers of lung cancer. After a long time of struggling with her illness, her parents decide that