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John Greens's The Faults In Our Stars

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Unlike adult literature, structure of Young Adult literature is usually straightforward to help illustrate the theme or tell the story expediently. By that saying, the Character settings are the lynchpin of an adolescent book. Throughout the discussion and analysis of this semester, I have encountered more juvenile literature than adult literature of my life. By doing comparison and contrast of a couple of books I adore, I do discover certain intriguing features of YA books.
The book The Faults in Our Stars by John Greens describes an encounter of love affair between to cancer patients. Hazel, a dying girl meets Augustus, a recovered cancer victim. John Green succeeds incorporating the style of story within a story. The two main characters …show more content…

Since the primary reader is defined to be young adult, to maximize resonance, the protagonist is usually a teenager as well. And for most of the books, the story is told in the protagonist’s view. The story could start’s with his/her daily life, struggle, conflict or even a quote. As story proceeds, they would encounter their best friends, enemies, families, and lovers. Unlike children’s book, there will not be some certain character elder to instruct protocols or end up with happy endings. Instead, the story just proceeds as the protagonist began to ponder everything thoroughly, which just like every human being learns to grow up in reality. Great YA authors touched variety of themes like sexuality, maturity, relationships, love, violence, jealousy, inequality, racism and much more struggles to be encountered for adolescence which would not be understood until occurrence. The most unimpeachable merit of this genre, is that instead of presenting the great quotes to the kids, taking the readers to a journey with the characters and sharing the methodology of decision making through protagonist’s internal thoughts. When the reader ends up with a grown up character, no matter what good or bad, it usually feels like reality to them instead of hearing the same idea from

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Novels for Students, edited by Sara Constantakis, vol. 29, Gale, 2009, pp. 45-65. Gale Virtual Reference Library, http://link.galegroup.com/apps/doc/CX2278200014/GLS?u=txshracd2560&sid=GLS&xid=3e5549cf. Accessed 4 Apr. 2018 Rand, Ayn. Anthem.

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