Fault In Our Stars Tone

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The Fault in Our Stars, a novel written by John Green. Hazel, who has stage 4 Thyroid Cancer and Augustus, who had cancer until he amputated his leg. A heartbreaking and joyous adventure between the two teens who show you can love through it all. The Fault in Our Stars is dramatic and humorous. The author showed a humorous tone in the beginning when Hazel had to start going to a group because her parents thought she was depressed. The author also showed humor throughout the book. He showed how Augustus and Hazel were very fond of each other, and how they were comfortable around each other. The author showed dramatic tone whenever Hazel went to the hospital because she was having trouble breathing. Hazel’s lungs were full of water and the doctors…show more content…
An unlit cigarette. He uses this to symbolize that he has control over what can kill him, in which case we are talking about cancer. This is the exact control that Hazel, Augustus nor Isaac has when it comes to cancer. Augustus depends on the implication of a cigarette when he becomes concerned to resemble strength. Another major symbol in this novel is when Hazel refers to herself as a grenade. Meaning that one day she will explode, injuring everyone nearby. She does not get close to those around her to keep them safe, she does not want to hurt them whenever she is gone. She says that Augustus is a grenade whenever his cancer comes back, he will die before she does. She is also a vegetarian, maybe I can invoke that Hazel does not want to add misfortune to the world. The Fault in Our Stars is called that because Peter Van Houten wrote in Augustus’s letter “Were she better, or you sicker, then the stars would not be so terribly crossed, but it is the nature of stars to cross, and never was Shakespeare more wrong than when he had Cassius note, ‘The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars/But in ourselves.” The Fault in Our Stars archetypes are situational. Specifically the quest. Whenever Hazel goes on a journey to meet her favorite author(Peter Van Houten) who wrote An Imperial Affliction.Hazel has to go on an airplane to get to his house but because her cancer has gotten worse, the doctors say that Hazel shouldn’t go on the airplane or drive there. She does either way because it is once in a lifetime opportunity for her. Many more are used like The Task and The Journey. Hazel has to find herself in the world that she lives in by Augustus dying. It shows where she is in the world, according to

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