The Fault In Our Stars: Hazel Isolation

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In the novel, The Fault In Our Stars, Hazel Grace Lancaster is a sixteen year old girl living with thyroid cancer that has spread to her lungs. Because of her cancer she carries around a mandatory oxygen tank named “Philip” and take doses of a drug Phalanxifor to help her. Hazel is a lonely teenager who spends her days watching TV, rereading the same book, and is forced to attend a support group. Hazel thinks deeply about life and death, until she meets Augustus Waters who changes her perspective on life. With meeting Augustus she goes on adventures and experiences things she never would have. Throughout the novel Hazel’s character develops differently, and encounters changes.
To begin with, Hazel is isolated and depressed in the beginning

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