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The fault in our stars written by John Green tells the story of a sixteen year-old-girl named Hazel who has a terminal cancer. She sees her life as a pointless waste of time until she meets a boy named Augustus who changes her life perspective completely.
Hazel is the first person narrator and the protagonist in the book. As a person Hazel is rather difficult because she is very sarcastic and she wants to believe that she knows everything and has seen it all in life. Those character features can also be seen as flaws or a coping mechanism, but that is exactly what makes her character so real and relatable. Cancer on the other hand can be seen as the antagonist of the story because that is the one thing that makes a negative impact to Hazel´s life throughout the book.
The biggest conflict to Hazel in the book is clearly Hazel herself because she doesn´t let herself be happy or enjoy the things that life throw her way. The conflict is resolved after many obstacles and denials when Hazel finally realizes that she is as worthy and justified for her happiness as anybody else.
The maincharacter asks herself many important and life-changing questions about life and death throughout the book. Reader finds himself wondering the same questions along the way with the character which makes the book even more of a emotional journey than it already is. The themes of the book circle around these questions, and one of the major things that the writer wants to say through the book is that our lives are limited and we should make the most with the time we have.