Irony In The Fault In Our Stars

John Green's “The Fault in Our Stars” is an emotional type of story with a tragedy in the end. This story is literary, expressive, and narrative. Green tells a story about two teenagers who have cancer. He gives a significant amount of detail about both of the teenagers. He explains about the experiences that happens between both of them, but also what they have dealt with. Green does an astounding job with how he moves the story from the main character to the other main character. This story is literary because he describes the way Augustus and Hazel feel. Not only does he describe how they feel, he also details the events that their family and friends go through. Green uses the phrase, “alone and boatless in a huge lake” (pg.301) to give

A metaphor he uses involves a cigarettes. A character in the novel named Augustus puts a cigarettes in his mouth. The other character named Hazel gets furiated telling him how he is giving a company power to give himself more cancer by smoking cigarettes. Then Augustus goes on to say, “They don’t kill you unless you light them. And I’ve never lit one. It’s a metaphor, see: You put the killing thing right between your teeth, but you don’t give it the power to do it’s killing.” (ch.1, pg.15) He expresses their way of words in a 3rd person narration. They talk about themselves but also about other people. Another metaphor that he uses is when Augustus says, “ I’m a roller coaster that only goes up,” meaning that even with his diagnosis repeating this phrase creates an image of his life going up and never down. Another way he expresses this story is by using similes. He uses the simile as Hazel says, “My hair looked like a birds nest; my shuffling gait like a dementia patient.” (Pg. 108) In this simile she is making a comparison between a bird’s nest and a dementia patient. She uses this comparing it to her illness. In contrast she makes a images to set a tone of her youth and how old age is going to sadden her later on. Another simile that Green uses is, “the tears not like tears so much as a quiet metronome-steady, endless.” He creates a image of sadness as Hazel watches Isaac deal with his break

It shows how things are from both Hazel's’ and Augustus point of view. The author John Green wanted to give both characters a chance to show what they are going through. He involves people like friends and family to also show that they are not alone throughout the things that they have to deal with. The conflict between Augustus and Hazel having to deal with cancer. In the beginning, John Green starts off by telling Hazel’s story plus her near death experience she had in a younger age. He lets Hazel explain all the difficult times she has been through involving her disease. Hazel tells her story on how her parents encourage her how to go through a support group to interact with others instead of being in such a nutshell. In the middle, Hazel meets these two lovely males named Augustus and Isaac. Isaac is soon to be blind and Augustus is attracted to Hazel but slowly dying. They all become friends, but Hazel and Augustus become more than just friends. Even though they both are dying nothing seems to be stopping them. They end going on an adventure to Amsterdam to visit the famous Peter Van Houten; who is the author of Hazel’s favorite book named “An Imperial Affliction.”After visiting Mr. Van Houten they realize how much of a obnoxious man he is and end up loving his home to explore the beautiful city of Amsterdam. In the end, everything has completely fallen into pieces for Augustus. He has to break the horrible news to Hazel