The Fault in Our Stars by John Green

Augustus was cancer free when he met Hazel, but he could relate with some of the struggles she faced. Although Augustus was cancer free, he had a prosthetic leg, which makes it more challenging for him to walk. Hazel has an oxygen machine because her cancer prevents her lungs from getting the full amount of oxygen they need. Augustus and Hazel's disabilities bring them closer together. Since they have disabilities, they are given a free trip to anywhere in the world. Augustus surprises Hazel and invites her to go with him to Amsterdam. While in Amsterdam, Hazel and Augustus got to meet their favorite author. They also got to explore and get closer to each other. Unfortunately, all fun must come to an end.

Augustus makes an impact on Hazel’s life. Augustus and Hazel meet at Support Group and grow a close bond. Augustus and Hazel fall deeply in love throughout the story. When Augustus’ cancer sprung up again, he asked Hazel to write him an eulogy. In Hazel’s eulogy she says, “My name is Hazel. Augustus Waters was the great star-crossed love of my life. Ours was an epic love story, and I won’t be able to get more than a sentence into it without disappearing into a puddle of tears”(Green 259). This shows that when Augustus dies he will leave a (mental) scar on Hazel, because Hazel will deeply miss Augustus when he dies. Augustus transformed Hazel

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

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.”

There are many similarities and differences between the book and the movie. I personally enjoyed the book more because I felt that it was a more detailed story. In the movie many things were left out simply because you cant fit everything that was in the book into a 125 minute movie. In the movie, Augustus’ parents don’t say anything when they go down to the basement.

First off Hazel is this sweet, vibrant girl who just wants to live a life cancer free. But she learns things along the way that make her think “wow I actually kind of like my life the way it is.” Hazels has this swagger about her that is just natural she can state quotes from the top of her head, here’s one “As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.” I love the fact that Hazel thought about what she was getting into with Gus because she didn’t want to hurt him and worse than he

Hazel was a sweet girl who befriended Oliver on his second day of ballet. She was nice and helped Oliver learn his choreography. Oliver and Hazel became really good friends. They hung out together almost every day after dance class. Hazel never judged Oliver even though he was the only boy.

Waters is determined throughout the story to know Hazel and form some kind of relationship with her, which makes him a stronger, clearer candidate for the main character. The novel revolves around Hazel’s life dealing with cancer, but Augustus finds his way into it as much as possible, which makes him an equally strong character. Green does not define a single character as being stronger or the main character, which gives the reader ideas to contemplate and debate. The story begins with Hazel and ends with her, but while Augustus is present he is just as important to the story as she

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

When meeting his parents for the first time, Hazel learns that Augustus is also called Gus.

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.

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

At first, Hazel and Gus were merely acquaintances. In the first chapter, where they meet, Hazel is only mildly interested in Augustus’ “metaphoric resonances”. When he puts a cigarette into his mouth, Hazel is thoroughly disgusted and she feels that “there is always a harmatia”, which shows that she is repulsed by his behaviour upon their first meeting. As the plot develops, they become much closer friends, as seen from Augustus regularly inviting her to his house and finding common interests in her book, talking about the book and often quoting from the book in their conversations, for instance: ‘Augustus nodded at

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