Hazel Grace In The Fault In Our Stars

From the you can tell Hazel Grace from the Fault In Our Stars, isn’t just a normal teenager from Indianapolis. She is not only really mature for her age from being a college student at the age 16 but more thoughtful and considerate tghe the average teenager. One of her greatest worries that impacts who she is is the impact her death will have on the ones she loves the most.She wants to minimize the harm she will leave on the people who love her. She often describes herself as ” i’m a grenade and at some point i’m going to blow up and i would like to minimize the casualties , okay?” (Greene, 99). she Says that one say to her parents at dinner when her mom asks her what is wrong. She continued by saying ”I’m a grenade, I just want to stay away

Most of Hazel's journey is based on her understandings and thoughts of death. In the beginning she only cared about how her death would affect others. She would always fear to get near anybody because she didn’t want to leave them with the pain. The fear she has is more for her parents especially her mom because one day when they thought they had lost their daughter her mom said she wasn’t going to be a mom anymore, Hazel recalled the situation when she said “ I'm dying mom, I am going to die and leave you here alone and you won't have me to hover around and you won't be a mother anymore, and I'm sorry, but I can't do anything about it, Okay?” (Green, 296). This is what motivated her to know the end of the book she was reading called An Imperial Affliction about a girl named Ana who had cancer and died but it wasn't completed. So she wanted to know the end owr what happened to Ana’s mother in order to know if her parents would be fine without her. Or at least not become a drunk like Ana’s dad AKA the author of the