Hazel Grace Lancaster's The Fault In Our Stars

Book Report: The Fault in Our Stars
The main character, Hazel Grace Lancaster, doesn’t fit into the usual group of female protagonists. She is different than others her age due to her thyroid cancer. She is always out of breath, and has to carry around her medical supplies everywhere. Most sixteen-year-olds don’t have to carry around an oxygen tank and fight to live every day. At times, Hazel stares down her own mortality, but she stays emotionally strong. Her parents suggest that she goes to Support Group, and make friends. She meets Isaac, who has eye cancer, and becomes good friends. Isaac brought Augustus Waters with him one day as a guest, who also had cancer. Gus’s cancer wasn’t as bad at the time though. Hazel and Augustus started

He told her that in reality, Anna was representing his daughter and Anna’s Mother represented his wife. He explained that in the end, the Mother and the Father got divorced once Anna died. Hazel started worrying that the same thing might happen to her parents and that her being alive might be the only thing holding them together. She felt better when her parents reassured her that they would not split up once Hazel’s cancer takes her. A few days after, while Hazel and Isaac were playing video games, he mentioned something about a sequel for A.I.A. that Augustus was writing for her. Hazel wanted to find it and she was determined: “There was still something of him, or by him at least, floating around out there. I needed it.” (283). She went to Gus’s house to look in his room for it, but she didn’t have any luck. She went back to the hospital to see if it was in the room he was in, but it wasn’t. Eventually, she received it from Peter Van Houten’s old assistant, Lidewij Vliegenthart. It turned out to be a eulogy Augustus wrote for Hazel. The last thing he says in the letter is, “I love her. I am so lucky to love her, Van Houten. You don’t get to choose if you get hurt in this world, old man, but you do have some say in who hurts you. I like my choices. I hope she likes hers.” (313). Hazel responded to herself as if

There’s several things the book has taught me too. It has made me realize that you can’t always get what you want: “The world is not a wish-granting factory,” said Augustus Waters on page 214. He said this when his cancer came back worse than before, and he was dying. Gus explained to Hazel: “He flashed his crooked smile, then said, ‘I lit up like a Christmas tree, Hazel Grace. The lining of my chest, my left hip, my liver, everywhere.’ ” (214). Another recurring theme is the necessity of suffering. Hazel, Isaac, and Augustus all went through the pain and suffering, some more than others. Isaac got his heart broken by his girlfriend, and had eye surgery, which would leave him blind. Hazel has thyroid cancer and ended up losing the person whom she loved to cancer. Augustus went through the pain of dying and having to leave Hazel behind. Everyone will have to suffer and go through pain at some point in their life, Gus made a good point: “ ‘That’s the thing about pain,’ Augustus said, then glanced back at me. ‘It demands to be felt.’ ”