The Fault in Our Stars, a book about a little girl with cancer? No, it is a story of love, courage, family, coming of age, consciousness, existence, and mortality; it tells the story of two star-crossed teens and their adventure though their fleeting life. It is the story of Hazel Grace Lancaster. Hazel is not your average sixteen year old girl. For starters, she was diagnosed with stage 4 thyroid cancer when she was only thirteen. She says her “lungs weren’t very good at being lungs.” Hazel’s mother forces Hazel to participate in a support group for teenagers with cancer because she believes Hazel is beginning to show signs of depression. There she meets Augustus Waters. He catches her eye -well- they catch one another's eyes. After a few days of constant texting and late night phone calls, Hazel and Augustus (Gus) become flirtatious friends. They talk to each other every day about everything. Augustus and Hazel's good friend Isaac is losing his eye (the only one he has left) so that he can be cancer-free. In the process though, he also loses his girlfriend Monica, who can't "deal" with having a blind boyfriend. Hazel and Augustus are constantly spending time with Isaac. The time they spent brought Hazel and Augustus closer, but it also brought Isaac comfort. Hazel has kept her favorite book a secret, but after some thought Hazel decides to share the book, An Imperial Affliction, with Gus, He reads it and becomes just as passionate about the book as Hazel is, they obsess and share ideas about the unsolved ending together. Augustus somehow gets in touch with Peter Van Houten (the author of An Imperial Affliction) through e-mail. Gus discovers that Houten is living in Amsterdam and convinces Houten to see Hazel and himself. He u... ... middle of paper ... ... Hope Standiford, Natalie. January 13,2012 http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/15/books/review/the-tenacity-of-hope.html?pagewanted=all&_r=o • The Controversy of “Sick-Lit” Little, Dena. January 24,2013 www.yalsa.ala.org/thehub/2013/01/24/the-controversy-over-sick-lit/ • How John Green Won The Internet (And Tens Of Thousands Of Screaming Fans) Miranda, Anna February 29,2012 www.thestranger.com/seattle/how-john-green-won-the-internet/content?0id=12832873 • Fault In Our Stars (Green) – Author Bio, Summary www.litlovers.com/reading.guides/15-young-adult-fiction/8711-fault-in-our-stars-green?start=1 • Hazel Grace Lancaster www.shmoop.com/fault-in-our-stars/Hazel-grace-lancaster.html • The Fault in Our Stars Themes (Little Words Big Ideas) www.shmoop.com/fault-in-our-stars/themes.html • An Imperial Affliction http://theorderofthelibrary.wikiai.com/wiki/an_imperial_affliction
This makes it hard to identify just one internal conflict because it each character has their own internal struggles. So to focus this paper I will focus on my favorite character Hazel Levesque. Hazel has a boyfriend named Frank who is an demigod on the ship with her. However, she is from the past, and she liked Sammy, who is the grandfather of Leo, who is also on the ship. In the previous book, this wasn’t a problem, but she sees traits in Leo that remind her of Sammy. This causes hazel to become torn between two people, Frank and Leo. This is a character versus self-conflict. Just like Hazel, at some point, we all have to make a decision between two things. They might not be about love, but usually, they will be important. Hazel represents these types of decisions and how we deal with them. She can become a role model for all of us to follow when we make our
The Fault in Our Stars is a juxtaposition between cancer and control and how it applies to the life of a teenager. Cancer is defined as a disease caused by an uncontrolled division of abnormal cells in a part of the body. Control is defined as the power to influence or direct people's behavior or the course of events. Most teens want to have control over their lives, they want to choose what happens to them, but in reality they have very little control over the events in their lives. The cancer that the three main characters in the books symbolized the lack of control that most teenagers have over their lives. The story is about how teens try to take control, how they try to keep control, how the only control that believed they had been taken
By gaining knowledge about themselves, the Vietnam War, and the world around them, O?Brien and Fossie become completely different soldiers. Though these two soldiers see and experience things that they could never imagine, Tim O?Brien and Mark Fossie manage to recognize themselves, the war, and the world for what is really is and undergo an amazing amount of personal maturation.
...ueal to An Imperial Affliction he was writing for her. Wanting to know what it is she goes to visit Augustus parents, they say she's welcome to look. Although she finds nothing anywhere but Augustus's father find a note book with pages missing. Hazel figures he might of sent them to Mr. Van Houten and ask his former assistant to go see.
The production focuses on a set of teenagers who are friends with Allison, who surreptitiously convinces her friends to share their secrets, thus developing her loyalty to them. Once Allison disappeared, she left a mystery of who was responsible for her disappearance, dragging her friends into her dark secrets. Her body is later found, and the girls, who drifted apart after Allison went missing, start to reconnect, but their troubles are only beginning. After the funeral, all four of the girls receive messages from a stoker who calls himself or herself 'A'. ‘A' exposes many of the girl's dark secrets that only Allison knew of, leading the girls to wonder if Allison might be alive after all. ‘A' causes trouble for the girls and intervenes in their life, threatening not only their lives, but also the lives of those around them. On the road to discovering who ‘A' is, the girls come across numerous clues that incriminate people that they trust and love. Many citizens of the town seem involved in the mystery of their friend's death, making the entire town seem like a place of danger and discomfort.
Hazel is a fiery little girl. She is strong-willed and openly opinionated, and believes that “when you got something on your mind, speak up and let the chips fall where they may” (Bambara 297). Although she is still very young, she has principles of what she believes to be wrong and right. She believes that her Hunca Bubba is not who he used to be since he has fallen in love and become engaged. Hazel feels betrayed by Hunca Bubba because when she was a little girl, he promised he would marry her. He is no longer Hazel’s Hunca Bubba; now, he is Jefferson Winston Vale. Hazel is befuddled with the entire situation. She is heartbroken that he seems to undermine the importance of his promise, by saying, “I was just teasin’” (298). He seems to be completely unaware that by breaking this promise, he has distorted Hazel’s entire outlook on trustworthiness. Hazel expresses her concrete belief that people should follow through with what they say, when she is commenting on the incident at the movie theater, “ I mean even gangsters in the movies say My word is my bond. So don’t nobody get away with nothing far as...
Cancer limits her chances at being a normal teenage girl with a normal life. As reluctant as she was to go to support group, she meets other teenagers going through the same stuff. Hazel gets to experience the flirting, adventure, and excitement of teenage life. She allows herself to be immature and careless. Gus’s death reminds her how unfair the world is but she doesn't regret her choices. In her eulogy at the funeral, Hazel says “I cannot tell you how thankful I am for our little infinity. I wouldn’t trade it for the world. You gave me a forever within the numbered days, and I’m grateful.” (Green 260). This quote shows she doesn't regret becoming close to him; even with the unfortunate fallout she’s thankful for the time and experiences. Hazel matures because of her relationship. She got the chance at “normal” and love. Caring for someone with cancer helped her mature.
The reader sees how detached Hazel appears to be from other women in this story. She can’t understand why they are allowed to be sad but when she appears sad she’s told to smile and how nobody wants to hear about other’s troubles. In fact there are only three women who Hazel holds conversations with at all in the story. The first is her neighbor who lives across the hall while she is married to Herbie. In Mrs. Martin she finds herself an escape from her trapped and unfulfilling life. They drink and play cards with a group of men referred to as “the boys.” This appears to be the only real friend she has through the entire story although they have a falling out based on the men in their life. The next woman is Mrs. Miller whom upon an exchange in the bathroom leads Hazel to the pills she will use in her suicide attempt. The final character is Nettie the colored maid who nurses Hazel back to life after she tries to take her own life. This appears to be a way for the author to explain the tension among women at this time. All the women in Parker’s story are trying to maintain the appearance that society has allotted them. Were some might think this would draw women together in fact made them further separated because they were all afraid of showing the crack in their own “good sport” personalities.
Hazel is the main character and narrator of "Gorilla, My Love," by Toni Cade Bambara. She is between the ages of ten or twelve years old and an African American girl living in Harlem, New York with her family. While riding in the car with her grandfather, her uncle Jefferson Winston Vale, aka Hunca Bubba, and her little brother in the beginning of the story story's, she learns that Hunca Bubba, is in love and plans to be married. This angers Hazel, and she thinks back to an Easter Sunday when she and her brothers went to the movies.
She is seventeen years old at the beginning of the novel ( Green 3). She attends a cancer support group where the members introduce themselves by saying their name, age, diagnosis, and how they are doing. When Hazel introduces herself, she says, “I’m Hazel. Sixteen. Thyroid originally but with an impressive and long-settled satellite in my lings. And I’m doing okay” (Green 5). Her introduction shows that she identifies herself by her disease. This is seen again when Augustus asks Hazel what her story is:
In 2014, John Green’s famous novel The Fault in Our Stars was brought to life with a film adaptation. The novel tells a story of two star-crossed lovers, Augustus Waters (portrayed by Ansel Elgort) and Hazel Grace Lancaster (portrayed by Shailene Woodley). The novel is written from Hazel’s point of view. However, there is something different about this love story than others. Hazel and Augustus are both cancer patients. Fans of Green’s work were ecstatic to see one of their favorite novels on the big screen. This was the first of Green’s works to be brought to life.
The Fault in Our Stars is the story of a girl named Hazel Lancaster who was diagnosed with thyroid cancer which spread to her lungs. She was pulled out of school...
People with cancer often begin to define themselves based on their experience with their illness, this self-definition through one’s cancer is one that the characters fear in John Green’s The Fault in Our Stars. The novel shows how the characters strive to discover their identities, but despite that are still identified by their illness. The novel also makes the argument that young people with cancer are not any more virtuous or different than other kids rather, they are just normal kids living with an illness. Augustus wants to be remembered and also be more than just a boy who battled cancer, but despite his efforts is still identified by his illness.
This dramatic romantic love story focuses on the two main characters, Hazel Grace and Augustus’, relationship. This isn’t an ordinary high school love story. The two companions first met during a cancer patient support group. Of course Hazel’s mother had to pressure her into going and talking about her terminal thyroid cancer. Nevertheless going definitely paid off when she caught glimpse of the gorgeous eyes of Augustus a charming teenage boy who lost a leg due to bone cancer. Although he is cancer free when she meets him, his cancer returns a few months later towards the end of the story.
After reading The Fault in Our Stars, I personally had a different perspective on life, death, and living in the moment. This book teaches readers to live fully and in the present, because you never know how much time you really have left. This novel also taught me that love can overpower anything, and sometimes it can even make you stronger in order to make another person happy. Hazel Lancaster and Augustus Water’s love is one of the most powerful romances I have ever read about. They are a good example of what true love really is and this book was extremely heartwarming to read. I highly recommend this book to anyone who has a desire to read a beautiful yet tragic romance much different than any other typical love story.