Their youths were a time in which they were healthy, so they are afraid to let them go, and their passage into adulthood is threatened by their cancer, so the characters are determined to pass into adulthood before it is too late.įor both Hazel and Augustus, their cancer is paired with their passage toward adulthood, and the story unfolds as they grapple with coming of age in the face of their diagnoses. They are constantly facing the fact of their own impermanence, which leads the characters to walk a line between moving into adulthood and holding onto their youth. Having cancer changes the way in which the characters of The Fault in Our Stars approach their passage into adulthood.

Their passage into adulthood, however, is complicated by the fact that they are living with and dying from cancer. As typical of coming of age narratives, Hazel and Augustus begin to discover the adult world in all if its complexity, they begin to experience their bodies and sexualities in new ways, and they rebel against and come to terms with society, family, rules, and religion.

Centering on the experience of two teenage characters, Hazel and Augustus, the novel follows their passage from childhood into adulthood. The Fault in Our Stars contains all of the traditional elements of a coming of age narrative.

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