Title-The Fault in our stars
1. Significance of title-The title of this book comes from a quote in Julius Caesar, "The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves, that we are underlings." This quote is basically saying that fate is not to be blamed for people’s misfortunes, but people’s actions and decisions decide their future. Throughout the book one of the main messages conveyed is that sometimes, bad things happen to people and there is nothing they can do about it. Because of this, I think that the title means the exact opposite of what the quote from Julius Caesar means. Sometimes misfortunes happen to people and it’s not their fault just like Hazel’s and Augustus’ cancer.
2. Genre- Fiction
3. Date of original Publication-2012
4. Author- John Green
5. Setting- Indianapolis and Amsterdam
6. Importance of setting-Indianapolis is where Hazel and Augustus live. While in Indianapolis Hazel has to go to all her doctors appointments…. While in Amsterdam, Augustus and Hazel enter a sort of fairytale. They get to escape their regular cancer-orinated lives and just enjoy being teenagers.
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Plot-Hazel is a teenage girl who was diagnosed with lung cancer. She is forced to wheel around an oxygen tank wherever she goes and go to numerous doctors. When her mom and her doctors are convinced that she is depressed due to the fact that she is continuously rereading the same book and hardly leaves the house, they advise that she attends a support group with other kids that have cancer. One day before support group Hazel bumps into a hansome kid and instantly feels attracted to him. During the support group Hazel learns the hansome stranger’s name is Augustus Waters and is attending the support group with his friend Isaac, who has eye
The Fault in Our Stars is such a Heart Wrenching book that may have you feeling some type of way at the end. You may feel the urge to cry, just cry because holding it in isn’t help. There are plenty of literary elements in this book!
In John Green’s book, The Fault In Our Stars, 16-year-old Hazel Grace Lancaster is diagnosed with thyroid cancer that has since spread to her lungs. One day at her cancer support group, she meets Augustus Waters, a 17-year-old boy with osteosarcoma, which resulted in him losing his right leg. Augustus helps Hazel navigate challenges, bringing light through her closed curtains. During a trip to Amsterdam, their connection grows more vital to the point where nothing can tether their love and friendship. While in Amsterdam, they meet their favorite author, who makes fun of their cancer.
In John Green’s book, The Fault In Our Stars, 16-year-old Hazel Grace Lancaster is diagnosed with thyroid cancer that has since spread to her lungs. One day at her cancer support group, she meets Augustus Waters, a 17-year-old boy with osteosarcoma, which resulted in him losing his right leg. Augustus helps Hazel navigate challenges, bringing light through her closed curtains. During a trip to Amsterdam, their connection grows more vital to the point where nothing can tether their love and friendship. While in Amsterdam, they meet their favorite author, who makes fun of their cancer.
“You know… its kids’ stuff, but I always thought my obituary would be in all the newspapers, that I’d have a story worth telling. I always had this secret suspicion that I was special” (Green, 240). When Augustus and Hazel meet at his house after support group he shows her his medals and tells her the story of how he used to be a basketball player till the day he got diagnosed with osteosarcoma cancer, a type of bone cancer that spreads from one limb in the skeleton to another, which is why he has an artificial leg. Augustus also tells her about his family and sisters then asks her
Unsurprisingly for a novel about adolescents dying of cancer, suffering is an outstanding component of the character’s lives. Hazel, Augustus,
Hazel –Main character, has cancer, has to have an oxygen tank, likes Augustus from the start, semi-shy, and has a bit of a dark side, has a GED and goes to community college, but very smart and well put together, feels like she's a "grenade".
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
For this project, I decided to read “The Fault in Our Stars,” a novel written by John Green. This book is about 16 year old Hazel Grace, who is diagnosed with thyroid cancer. She attends weekly Cancer Support Group, where she meets Augustus Waters, a “very intelligent and hot” boy who is currently in remission. They both take a liking for each other, their relationship growing and developing throughout the book as they fight cancer together. Along the way, Hazel learns many important lessons about life.
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
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
Skeptical about the hype around The Fault in Our Stars? Well I was too. Partially because these coming-of-age novels always manage to poke fun at my comparably uneventful and boy-less life. However this book spread like wildfire, engulfing victim after victim till even the cynical book readers I knew were infected. It imprisoned them, hands cuffed to this book till the turning of pages blurred before my eyes. Soon I became hostage by this book as well. To my surprise, John Green creates a cleverly crafted story that explores the life changing, funny, and tragic effects of being alive and in love.
Title of the novel "the fault in our star" comes from Shakespeare's play Act 1, Scene 2. It is written It's not fate that ruins man but his failure. Title symbolizes, sometimes we are irresponsible for our failure it's in our fate. No one causes cancer to himself, but nature does. It is the sixth novel by John Green.
Hazel is depressed and her mom tells her she needs to go to group counseling. Hazel doesn’t want to go but when she meets Augustus Waters she is fine with going. One day after group, Gus offers HAzel to go over to his house and watch a movie. Hazel accepts and they watch the movie. When they talk they find out they like different books and have different views on life.
She is trying to live a life of a normal 16 year old and she is mainly concerned about how her parents will feel after her death. The teenagers in story are facing to stand at the death’s door often. But they are trying to live on with their support group chant “Living our best lives today”. The idea of death and life follows through the story when Hazel and Augustus bond together.
Their relationship drives the plot forward because the story is about how they fall into love and support each other through hardships; it drives them to go see Mr Peter Van Houten together and to care for each other even as Augustus is dying. The story also explores the theme of dying as their relationship struggles to keep afloat with Gus suffering from terminal cancer, and Hazel has to deal with grief as she copes with her partner’s death. Most importantly, their relationship highlights the theme of love. Hazel and Gus are devoted to each other up till the very end of the story, as seen from… Their relationship illustrates the enduring and touching power of love.