Love Triumphs Over Hardships '

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Marah Moeller

Mrs. Lefeld

English 9

6 May 2015

Literary Analysis - Theme

“Love Triumphs Over Hardships”

John Green’s novel, “The Fault in Our Stars,” is about two teenagers, living through hardships (cancer), loving one another, and trying make the best of the life they have on this earth. The moral value of this book is, love endures everything that life throws at us, even cancer. This whole book is created through many forms of conflict. There are protagonist which are conflict solvers and antagonist are the characters or things in the book that cause problems. Some protagonist in the book are Hazel, Agustus, their supporters and Isaac.m The antagonist are cancer, and Monica. (TOPIC OPINION REASON WHY) John Green does a superior job of showing the theme of his book through the conflicts throughout the book. …show more content…

She thought she was not going to be the one dealing with the heartache. In Green’s book, Augustus says to Hazel, “You realize that trying to keep your distance from me will not lessen my affections for you,” (60). What Gus means to Hazel is, no matter what you do to push me away I will always like you. Hazel pushed Gus away becauses she didn’t want to hurt him when she dies. The author does a great job of showing the theme because Gus doesn’t care what the circumstance and hardships that he will have to face; he just wants to be Hazel’s one and only. Conflict that the author created make it clear that Augustus wants to always be their for

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