What Are Hazel's Beliefs About Life

She witnesses her son Harrison’s bold attempt to claim his role as Emperor and sees him get shot as well. After that she apparently forgets what she witnesses. In the movie 2081 however, Chandler Tuttle struggled to understand why Hazel watched the incident and could not remember. Since he could not figure it out, He set up a scene where Hazel leaves to wash the dishes and leaves George alone to watch alone in the living room. She says “urgh i think i will get started with the dishes.”The real reason Hazel forgot about her son’s death is because she got desensitized

Firstly, within the novel, it is clear that Hazel is a caring person and is fully aware of what her body’s condition does to her

She says, "I'm sure glad this is a Christian country, or I'd be a little scared" (Vonnegut). Hazel feels safe just because the San Lorenzos are of the same religion. This security is fake and if people depend on their beliefs then they are just being cheated of the truth. Vonnegut uses Hazel to show how people are using an illusion to feel safe; when in reality this lie may lead to tragedy or

Augustus realizes that a lot of people let their cancer identify them, which it seems at first like Hazel does. Through the novel Augustus mentions multiple times how he wants his life to mean something other than cancer. “I fear that I won’t be able to give anything in exchange for my life. If you don’t live a life in service of a greater good, you’ve gotta

One that won’t give up. She goes through chemo-therapy, and depression without any respite. Through resilience and, some would say, God she survived terminal cancer through all odds and even her,☺ I-will-never-make-it-out-alive attitude, making her “Stronger” because of it. However at the start of the book Hazel was not as interested as fighting as she was when she met Augustus. Hazel needed motivation to bring out her inner champion and he was exactly that. An example of her early pessimistic views on her illness was described “Late in the winter of my seventeenth year, my mother decided I was depressed, presumably because I rarely left the house, spent quite a lot of time in bed, read the same book over and over, ate infrequently, and devoted quite a bit of my abundant free time to thinking about death.” (Green

As Hazel first introduces herself she gives off a quite sophisticated but also depressed vibe. My first impression of Hazel was that she was a little too smart for a girl who hadn't been to school in three years. I soon learned that she took classes at the local community college. A couple weeks into support group Hazel meets her match and is instantly drawn to the intriguing character of Gus. I could immediately tell that gus and Hazel had a mutual attraction but a roadblock stood in the way, cancer. The relationship that soon developed between Hazel and gus is what intrigued myself, how they both were incredibly scared to hurt the other emotionally. They bonded over their overuse of symbols and metaphors. For example, how gus used the cigarettes as a metaphor… “It’s a metaphor, see: You put the killing right between your teeth, but you dont give it the power to do its killing.” (Green, 20). I could immediately tell that Hazel has become immensely attracted to Augustus and they would soon become star

This causes Hazel to struggle with the fact that she will never be part of the normal living

I think I need to know why the creator decided to end the book with Augustus Waters dying if the one who was more sick was Hazel. I also need to know why Peter Van Houten, who was Hazel's favorite author, didn’t want to answer her questions on the book that she had read. Since he was the only one who understood how it was like to be dead, but not be dead, why was it so hard for him to answer her questions when she went to Amsterdam just to see him. I would also want to know why Augustus didn’t tell Hazel when he got his cancer back, there must be a good reason for why he didn’t tell her.

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.”

Overcoming a terminal disease is not easy, and I have experienced that with my mom, first hand. Usually when this happens and the person dies, you go through five stages of grief. When Augustus Waters dies in the novel, Hazel experiences this. The first stage is denial and isolation. Denial by its very definition is asserting that a statement or allegation is not true. It can be seen that the

Third, Hazel is a person to admire since she’s humorous. Specifically, Hazel talks about her diagnosis with Stage four thyroid cancer when she was thirteen. “(I didn’t tell him that the diagnosis came three months after I got my first period. Like: Congratulations! You’re a woman. Now die)” (Green 24). This shows Hazel is a person to admire since she is humorous because she jokes about the irony of her becoming a woman to soon be basically diagnosed with character and most likely dying instead of being depressed or self-pitying. Lastly, Hazel is a person to admire since she is smart. In particular, when first conversing with Augustus in the car, she mentions that due to her condition, she had to drop out of from high school, and she can’t go back since she already has taken her GED so now she taking classes from the local community college. This shows that Hazel is a person to admire since she is smart because although, she has dropped out of school, she was still able to take the quite tough test, GED, in order to do so, and seems to be fine taking college level classes at her age of sixteen. Therefore, Hazel is funny and smart, making her a person to admire. In conclusion, the main character in The Fault in Our Stars by John Green, Hazel Grace Lancaster, is an admirable

Hazel has a strong identity in the story, she has much self-confidence and is not afraid of letting everyone know that she is the best, “Now some people like to act like things come easy to them, won’t let on that they practice. Not me. I’ll high-prance down 34th street like a rodeo pony to keep my knees strong even if it does get my mother uptight.” p. 1 ll. 29-31. Thus her strong and proud personality, she still loves and protects Raymond and is not afraid of showing this either. At the end of the story Hazel’s view on other people changes, when she sees Raymond running parallel with her at the May Day race in his own unique style. She realizes that everyone is not just who she sees them to be, that there are more to people than you can

The nature of Hazel’s self evolves as her spiritual understanding of death develops as a result of influential factors like disease and friendship. In the movie The Fault in Our Stars, the protagonist Hazel Lancaster, a seventeen year old girl who is fighting stage four thyroid cancer demonstrates unimaginable strength and considerateness throughout the film while encountering events that help shape her identity. In the first few scenes, when Hazel was first introduced to the cancer patient support group, she stood out to offer a different perspective to Augustus’ goal of wanting to live an extraordinary life and fear of “oblivion” by explicitly telling him that there will be a time when all humans are dead, therefore no one is left to be remembered and leaving is inevitable. Her interpretation of death is significantly different than Augustus and she is also a little fixated on this topic as she fears not dying itself but the effects that it has on everyone else. As the two become closer and shares about their favourite books, Hazel chose An Imperial Affliction by Peter Van Houten because the author understands the process that she’s been going through and she desperately needed to know what will happens to the girl’s mother in the book after she died since she relates it closely to herself. It is evident from this point that her nature of the self is very thoughtful and considerate about people that she love but she also portrays most conceivable things as a effect of

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