The Fault in our Stars

The Fault in our Stars

1. Characters

   • Hazel
     • Cancer sufferer
     • Has lung cancer
       • calls herself a grenade
         • a very positive person
           • she is an inspiration to everyone
     • attends a support group, and meets augustus
     • loves to read 'imperial affliction'
       • reads it repetitively
   • Augustus
     • lost a leg, due to cancer
       • incurable cancer
         • had a metaphor
           • to put the killing between your teeth, but dont gove it the power to harm you
         • Hazel's boyfriend

2. Main Idea

   • Hazel has cancer
     • Her mum sends her to support group
       • Where she meets Augustus
       • Augustus is diagnosed with his cancer again
         • He passes away, and hazel is crushed
   • Hazel reads a book called An Imperial Affection
     • has an unfinished ending
       • augustus and hazel fall in love
         • augustus has a pre funeral before he died so that hazel could say her eulogy
     • Augustus, Hazel and her mum all fly to Amsterdam to meet the author of their favourite book
       • Hazel is faced with the cancer for the rest of her life, and has to live with knowing augustus will never come back
     • he thoroughly enjoys them

3. Language techniques

   • Metaphors; Im a grenade. "one day im going to blow up and obliterate everything in my way"
   • Similes; "his gait was crooked like his smile"
   • Personification " his every syllable flirted

4. I think that this book is a very emotional. it has alot of sorrow. I would reccomend this book to all teens