![]() ![]() How do the characters in The Fault in Our Stars deal with the fear and pain of living with cancer, and losing loved ones to it? Does the book seem to suggest that there is one ideal way to deal with illness and death? This stresses the symbolic imagery of water throughout the book, which ties into lack of agency in relation to illness and time. ![]() The epigraph talks about water and time, two incredibly important things to Hazel because she feels that she has too much of one and too little of the other. Having a fictional epigraph is the same - it allows Green to write exactly what he wants as an epigraph, strategically placing it, as with all epigraphs, to foreground themes that will be developed throughout the book. ![]() Furthermore, Green is able to create a fictional author who demonstrates that authors don't always write directly from reality and aren't always the way you think they'll be. For example, the fact that Anna, the main character of An Imperial Affliction, is a young girl with cancer who does not want to let this fact define her entire life parallels Hazel's situation and causes Hazel to find empathy and connection in the book. What is the importance of John Green having created the most central book(s) to the characters in the story? What is the impact of having an epigraph from a fictional work?Ĭreating the books within The Fault in Our Stars, An Imperial Affliction and The Price of Dawn, allows Green complete control over the plots, characters, and themes in them so that he can leverage these allusions to precisely parallel and add to the themes already in the larger work. That The Fault in Our Stars is a love story helps Hazel to understand life, death, and family, and allows The Fault in Our Stars to be a coming of age story in terms of the discovery of self emotionally and sexually rather than focusing all of the story's content on coping with cancer. ![]() However, Hazel does not fully understand love at the beginning of the novel, and begins to throughout the story, realizing that perhaps pain and joy are more intertwined than she had deigned to believe. Hazel is very smart she has seen and felt a lot of things. What is the role of love in The Fault in Our Stars? In other words, why did Green make The Fault in Our Stars a love story? ![]()
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