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The Fault In Our Stars (Plot Structure: (Climax: (Everthing changes in…
The Fault In Our Stars 
Thought:
Like:
I think anyone can relate with some character in some way. There are parts of this story that are extremely sad, and we see the two main characters go through many emotions.
Nothing is sugar coated in this book. The author does a great job showing the realness to illnesses, and also a side to teenagers in general. The book is from the point of view of the main character and I felt like it was her speaking out.
This is not a true story, but it is inspired by a real girl named Esther Earl who lost her battle to cancer when she was sixteen. John wrote this book in her honor, and it just makes the book have so much more meaning.
Dislike:
How often it brings up genre specifics like cancer, sexuality, or some other serious, controversial topic. Issues surround the novel and those feelings to the issues are shoved into every word.
The whole book was targeted at teens and the characters were elaborated a little much at certain parts in the book,
Main Idea:
Even though you may be going through tough times in your life, you can never give up and feel sorry for yourself you have to keep living and eventually something good will come out of it.
Plot Structure:
Climax:
Everthing changes in Amsterdam. Things do not go well with Peter Van Houten. Augustus breaks the news to Hazel that he recently had a PET scan and his cancer has returned aggressively.
Falling Action:
Augustus' health starts failing. Hazel has to deal with the heartbreak of watching her first love get weaker and weaker. All she wants to do is be there for him, and watching him die takes up her whole life. When Augustus dies, it's unimaginably hard.
Rising Action:
Hazel meets Augustus, a rather attractive boy in her support group. Pretty soon, they're swooning over the same books and having phone calls into the late hours of the night. With Augustus in her life, Hazel starts seeing the possibility of a life more exciting than her cancer-ridden one. Augustus and Hazel go to Amsterdam.
Resolution:
Hazel is full-on mourning Augustus's loss. But she reaches some closure when she talks to Peter Van Houten at the funeral and learns about the ending of her favorite book. She also discovers something Augustus has left her.
Exposition:
We get introduced to Hazel and told about the ins and outs of a day with cancer, which includes not going to school, being hovered over by one's parents, watching lots of reality television, and going to a support group in the basement of a church.
Author's Purpose:
John Green wanted to write the book because he felt that cancer is something that isn't understood. He was a chaplain at a children's hospital surrounded by children with life-threatening illnesses for five months which helped to inspire him to think and write about a story with ill teens to give people an understanding of what they go through. He was also inspired to write it because of the death of his friend Esther, who died from cancer.
Theme:
Finding out who you really are in life and how life is so valuable and you never know what's gonna happen or when. Also it teaches you to be thankful for what you have in life.
Notes:
Meaning behind Hazel’s name: Hazel is an in-between color, and she’s in between a lot of things: In between healthy and sick and in between adulthood and childhood. So that seemed like a small way of communicating the fear of that time of her life
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Quotes:
“It's a metaphor, see: You put the killing thing right between your teeth, but you don't give it the power to do its killing.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
“You don't get to choose if you get hurt in this world...but you do have some say in who hurts you. I like my choices.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars