Post #1 The Fault in our Stars By John Green: Characters

In the book, The Fault in our Stars, the main character, Hazel is introduced to the reader as a teenager with terminal cancer who had resigned herself to her fate with little hope of anything that remotely resembles a teenage life. Once she is introduced to the second main character Augustus Waters she is transformed into a more hopeful person who genuinely wishes to have a normal teenage life. Hazel is conflicted between her desire to have a normal relationship with Augustus and her fear of scarring him with her death which she perceives to be eminent. In the end she succumbs to her feelings for him only to have fate rip them apart when Augutus's illness returns. In the end Hazel's experience confirms that it is better to have loved and been hurt than to not have loved at all as Hazel recognizes that the precious time that they had had together was worth the hurt and the scars.