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ABSTRACT
ABSTRAK
Novel merupakan salah satu hasil karya sastra manusia yang tidak hanya berisi cerita yang menarik, tapi juga mengandung pesan moral bagi pembaca nya. Kertas karya ini berjudul “The Analysis of Miracle in John Green: The Fault in Our Stars”. The Fault In Our Stars merupakan novel keempat yang ditulis oleh John Green merupakan sebuah karya fiksi menceritakan kehidupan remaja yang mendapat keajaiban melawan penyakit kanker dan berhasil mendapatkan penghargaan The best Young Adult Fiction Goodreads Choice Awards 2012. Keajaiban berada di luar kekuasaan manusia karena itu terjadi sangat mengagumkan. Kekuatan keajaiban datang dari Tuhan ketika manusia merasa putus asa untuk menghadapi masalah dalam hidup. Keajaiban menunjukkan bagaimana hal itu masih ada di saat ini. Membuka wawasan kebanggan manusia, ketidak percayaan, atau ketidaktahuan bahwa ada kekuatan di dalam kuasa Tuhan. Dalam penulisan kertas karya ini, penulis menggunakan metode perpustakaan dan pendekatan secara intrinsik. Semua data yang ada dikumpulkan, dianalisis dan disimpulkan untuk mendukung kertas karya ini.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Bismillahirrahmanirrahim.
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a) My beloved parents, Aidil Fitri and Nur Hayati Hrp. Thank for all your motivations, advices, prays, loves, and financial for me. I present this paper for you.
b) My lovely sister Ovi Arista, thank for all your motivations and advices.
c) Dr.Matius C.A. Sembiring, MA as the Head of English Diploma Study Program, who gives me a lot of knowledge.
d) Drs. Parlindungan Purba, M. Hum. as my supervisor. Thank for the valuable time in giving the correction and constructive critics in completing this paper.
e) Drs. Chairul Husni, M.Ed., TESOL, as my reader. Thank for who helps me to read and check my paper.
g) All my lecturers in English Diploma Study Program for their motivation and inspiration. I thank them very much for their knowledge. I really appreciate that.
h) My lovely friends (CUNers), Abun Fauji (Buncan), Aya Syarifah
(Tajem), Tria Anindi (Inem), Anisha Fatiah (Nisut), Rima Virgiani
(Imin), thanks for unforgettable moment and always make my world alive. For Batman Gank: Mahyar Chaniago (Akhi), Heri Anggawan (Heriel),
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Ratu Sunda, Gembala, Dani, Sukrik, thanks for the adventure moment. I love you guys.
Finally, I do realize that this paper is still far from being perfect. Therefore, I welcome any constructive critics and suggestions towards this paper.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
2. REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE 2.1Novel ... 5
2.1.1 Character ... 7
2.1.2 Plot ... 14
2.1.3 Theme ... 14
2.1.4 Intrinsic Approach ... 15
2.2Miracle ... 16
ABSTRACT
ABSTRAK
Novel merupakan salah satu hasil karya sastra manusia yang tidak hanya berisi cerita yang menarik, tapi juga mengandung pesan moral bagi pembaca nya. Kertas karya ini berjudul “The Analysis of Miracle in John Green: The Fault in Our Stars”. The Fault In Our Stars merupakan novel keempat yang ditulis oleh John Green merupakan sebuah karya fiksi menceritakan kehidupan remaja yang mendapat keajaiban melawan penyakit kanker dan berhasil mendapatkan penghargaan The best Young Adult Fiction Goodreads Choice Awards 2012. Keajaiban berada di luar kekuasaan manusia karena itu terjadi sangat mengagumkan. Kekuatan keajaiban datang dari Tuhan ketika manusia merasa putus asa untuk menghadapi masalah dalam hidup. Keajaiban menunjukkan bagaimana hal itu masih ada di saat ini. Membuka wawasan kebanggan manusia, ketidak percayaan, atau ketidaktahuan bahwa ada kekuatan di dalam kuasa Tuhan. Dalam penulisan kertas karya ini, penulis menggunakan metode perpustakaan dan pendekatan secara intrinsik. Semua data yang ada dikumpulkan, dianalisis dan disimpulkan untuk mendukung kertas karya ini.
1. INTRODUCTION
1.1 Background of the Study
Art and literature have the strong relation, those are two great things. Literature is the art of telling story to someone, either orally or written. By reading literary works, you can read the art of language it’s the beautiful thing if you can recognize such things when you read the works.
Literature can be considered as a written imagination of what human thinking, it reflects the result as the value of an art work. Taylor (1981:1) says that literature, like other arts, is essentially an imaginative act, that is, an act of the writer’s imagination in selecting, ordering, and interpreting life experience.
The major forms of literature are novel, poem, drama and short story. In this paper a novel is used as the material of the discussion, which the novel itself belongs to the literary work. Reeve (1785) says that novel is a picture of real life and manners, and of the time in which it is written. Based from the quotation above, a novel seems as the portrayal of human life and behaviour in reality. On the other words, the novel tends to be the representative of the activity of human real life, which concerns too many things and aspects such as: ambition, feeling, emotion, desire, obstacles in life, problem, etc.
Nonfiction is literary work that is based on authentic data. But also that can be developed according to the author’s imagination.
Novel is a narrative or story carried by certain actors in characterization, setting and stages and sequence of a particular story that contradicts the result of the author’s imagination, so having a story (Aminuddin, 2002: 66). While M. Saleh Saad and Anton M. Muliono (in Tjahyono, 1988: 106) suggest the sense of prose fiction (fictional, prose narrative, narrative) is a form of story or narrative prose that has a cast, imposition events, and the flow generated by the power imagination.
Shaw (1972:50) says that character has several other specific meanings, notably that a person represented in a story, novel, play, etc. In seventeenth-century and eighteenth-seventeenth-century England, a character was a formal sketch or descriptive analysis of particular virtue or vice as represented in a person, what is now more often called a character sketch. This term has several meanings, the most-watched common of which is “the aggregate of traits and features that form of the nature of some person or animal”.
The Novel which deals in this paper are written by John Green entitle The Fault In Our Stars. John Green was born August 24, 1977, American. Green
School at the time, although he never actually attended.He intended to become an Episcopalian minister, but his experiences of working in a hospital with children suffering from life-threatening illnesses inspired him to become an author, and later to write The Fault in Our Stars.
The focus of this analysis is the miracle in this novel. According to Robert and Jacobs (1995:52) says that the plot is the pattern in which protagonistmeets and resolves the conflict, which has been compared to the story’s map, scheme, or blueprint. The plot is based on the interaction of causes and effects as they devolep sequentially or chronologically. That is, the story’s action follow one another in time as the protagonist meets and tries to overcome the forces of opposition.
Finally, the research of this paper focuses on the miracle in the novel written by John Green entitle The Fault In Our Stars. This is the background as well as the reason why this paper focus on the analyzing the miracle in this paper.
1.2 Problem of the Study
Referring to the explanation of the background of the analysis above, problems that the writer would like to analyze is that search miracle in John Green’s novel The Fault In Our Stars.
1.3 Scope of the Study
1.4 Objective of the Study
The objective of this analysis is to refer miracle in John Green’s novel The Fault In Our Stars.
1.5 Significance of the Study
Theoretically, the significance of this analysis is to increase the literary understanding in terms of literary works and miracle in novel The Fault In Our Stars. Practically, it has significance for the readers to understand what miracle.
1.6 Method of the Study
2. REVIEW AND RELATED LITERATURE
2.1.NOVEL
Novel is a length story which tells about life experience of human being. It can be made base on imagination. The imagination is not really life experience, it is impossible in real life.
“The novel is an impossible history, for history has become impossible. It is powerd by a negative utopianism: it creats an image of an artificial reality, but not of a better one as a prophet would. Modern novel are Dystopias, the sting in the tail of the earlier desire to leave this world and so was unable to return to it. This means.” (Coates, 1983: 17)
According to George Watson (1979: 3) “Novel is the name of a literary kind, and there is a story to tell about how, over the centuries, its substance has
widened and its conventions changed.” So it means novel is literary work, narrate
about the life in centuries ago. Of course, novel is a way to send message in social, such as in novel find character that plays role hero and felon. Hero in novel will be success but not felon will be loser. From this message the reader can get inspiration that hero is good but felon is bad.
Novel can also content the knowledge, such as in novel message in novel by Sparks there is found technical of diving and sail. This technical is important to
Reading a novel can help reader to think the conversation of character, it makes the imagination improved became more criticism. Because the reader thinks what thing is good to support. In the beginning of novel is not interesting in the ending, because it takes the attention the reader to read the whole story. Watson (1979) said that:
“A novel is a way of learning about how things were or are-cognitive instrument; and those who distrust stories as evidence should consider how often in conversation we use them to make points or answer questions.”
“The end of the novel, like the end of children’s dinner-party, must be made up of sweetmeats and sugar plums. That is a plain directive from Trollope to the reader that is novel is a novel, and not record of real events.”(P. 3-4)
According to Watson (1979: 6) that “The novel is always subject to a comparison with reality, a critic has remarked of social fiction, and therefore
found to be illusion.” It means to reflect the life experience can interpret in a
novel. Novel is also picturing of social life in fiction.
“Why most novels are mainly composed in the past tense? And why is it that when readers or critics recount the plot of a novel, or any part of one, they commonly translate it into the present?
The simplest answer to these questions is that we conventionally associate past tense with telling a story, and present tense with analysis. In ordinary conversation, it is worth nothing, anecdotes are usually in the past tense, even when they are offered as fictitious.” (P. 6-9)
2.1.1 Character
In novel, a character may be defined as a verbal representation of a human being. Through action, speech, description, and commentary, authors portray characters who are worth caring about, rooting for and even loving, although there are also characters you may laugh at, dislike, or even hate, to quote Robert and Jacobs (1995:131). There can be simplified that the character in a novel is a description and a representation of a person qualities. It can be shown by the creation of the characters in a novel from their action, gesture, speech, and behavior, these term can be used by the readers to identify the characters in a novel, because the character in a novel has equal qualities as a person in real life. The attempt of the author describes the characters in a narrative work known as a characterization. According to Di Yanni (1990:36) says that Characterization is the means by which the writers present and reveal the characters.
According to Robert (1995:135) there are five ways to disclose the characters in a fiction:
a. Actions.
What characters do is our best way to understand what they are. As with ordinary human beings, fictional characters do not necessarily understand how they may be changing or why they do the things they do. Nevertheless, their actions express their characters. Actions may also signal qualities such as naiveté, weakness, deceit, a scheming personality, strong inner conflicts, or a realization or growth of some sort.
b. Descriptions, both personal and environmental.
Appearance and environmental reveal much about a character’s social and economic status, of course, but they also tell us more about character traits.
c. Dramatic statements and thoughts.
d. Statements by other characters.
By studying what characters say about each other, one can enhance his or her understanding of the character being discussed. Ironically, the characters doing the talking often indicate something other than what they intend perhaps because of prejudice, stupidity, or foolishness.
e. Statements by the author speaking as storyteller or observer.
What the author, speaking with the authorial voice, says about a character is usually accurate, and the authorial voice can be accepted factually. However, when the authorial voice interprets actions and characteristics, the author himself or herself assumes the role of a reader or critic, and any opinions may be questioned. For this reason, authors frequently avoid interpretations and devote their skill or arranging events and speeches so that readers may draw their own conclusions.
According to Nurgiyantoro (1998: 176-191), characters can be categorized based different of point of view and observation as follows:
A. Main Character and Peripheral Character
In a novel, there are several characters presented. Nevertheless, each of the character has a different role. Based on the role of characters in developing the plot, characters are distinguished into main character and peripheral character.
the doer of an action or the one who is affected in the action. Main character in a novel can be more than one; however its superiority values are not always to be the same. Its superiority is determined by its domination, and its influence to the development of plot as a whole.
Peripheral character is a character which is presented only once or a couple of times in a story and it may be in a portion of narration which is relatively short. The appearance of peripheral character in a story is less, not important, and its appearance only if there is a relation with the main character directly or indirectly.
B. Protagonist Character and Antagonist Character
Based on the function of appearance, characters are distinguished into protagonist character and antagonist character.
Protagonist character is the most favorite character by the readers and popularly called hero. Readers often identified themselves with certain characters, giving sympathy and empathy to protagonist character. Because it presents something which is conform to the readers’ point of view, norms manifestation, and value. In short, all the things that the character felt, thought, and done, it all represents the readers.
C. Simple Character and Complex Character
Based on the characterization, character can be distinguished into simple character and complex character.
Simple character is a character that has only a certain individual quality and one certain character. As a character of human being, any possibility of his life is not revealed. He does not have any characteristics and behavior that can give any surprising effect to the readers. This kind of character is monotone, his behavior and characteristics is flat and reflect a certain character only.
Complex character is a character which is different to simple character; the character has a life side and personality that is revealed. He could have certain characteristics that can be formulated, but he can present various characteristics and behavior, even may be has a contradiction and hard to be guessed. In comparison with simple character, complex character is more resemble to the real human life besides having some possibility of behavior and actions, he often gives a surprise.
D. Static Character and Developing Character
Based on the criteria whether the character is developed or not, character can be distinguished into static character and developing character.
because of a relationship among human being. Static character has a constant and undeveloped behavior and characteristic, since the beginning to the end of the story.
Developing character is a character that experiences a change of characterization in accordance with the developing and changing of event and plot narrated. The character interacts with his environment, whether it is social, nature, or even others, and all of it will influence his behavior and characteristic. Thus, the character will experience to be change and developed from the beginning, in the middle, and until the end of the story according to the coherence of the story as the whole.
E. Typical Character and Neutral Character
Based on the reflection of the character to the group of human, character can be distinguished into typical character and neutral character.
Typical character is a character which is individually less presented, but more of its works or nationality is presented, or some other things that possibly more represent. It is a description and reflection or reference of one or group of people as a part of one institute which exist in the real life.
2.1.2 Plot
In a well-done story, all the action and incident, speeches, thoughts, and observations are linked together to make up an entirety, sometimes called and organic unity. The essence of this unity is development and resolution of a conflict-orconflicts-in which the protagonist, or central character, is engaged. In pattern in which the protagonist meets and resolves the conflict is called the plot, which has been compared to the story’s map, scheme, or blueprint. The plot is based on the interactions of causes and effects as they develop sequentially or chronologically. That is, the story’s actions follow one another in time as the protagonist meets and tries to overcome the forces of opposition.
2.1.3 Theme
2.1.4 Intrinsic Approach
According to Wallek and Warren, intrinsic approach is the emphasis on the analysis of the text. Intrinsic approach starts from the literature. History of modern literature develoved after the emergence of romanticism. This flow can only change the system of Neo-Classical tradition. In the 19th century popular literature examines the origin. Many methods based survey of modern literary forms, namely in the French method of explication de texts there. In Germany, develoved a formal analysis to develop a formal analysis based on the parallels between art and art history. Russian formalist movement in Czechoslovakia and Poland to develop the study of the literature. Many novel not only see the connection with the work of social structure, study of artistic methods, and techniques of narrative point of view.
Wallek and Warren (1973:75) say that the approach is based on the intrinsic structural of point of text and literature. This means the intrinsic approach emphasizes the inter text analysis by describing the elements of prose that described previously. Relationship with the art of literature and art of music is very diverse and complicated. Sometimes they influence each other. Theory of art and taste can be studied and related to the theory and literary tastes of artist. Besides the issue of sources and influences, inspiration and cooperation, there is another problem, namely literary works often produce the same results with the result of a painting and musical. The term is just as vague metafon.
works of art, social and cultural background the same, can unravel the background of time, place setting, and social background art and literature.
Furthermore, it Wallek and Warren said that the golden age of literature in the days of Elizabeth is not matched by progress in the field of fine arts. The various branches of art which Plastis art, literature, music has the evolution of each with a different tempo and it has elements of different structures.
2.2 Miracle
Miracle is an event not ascribable to human power or the laws of nature and consequently attributed to a supernatural, especially divine, agency. Such an event may be attributed to a miracle worker, saint, or religious leader. A miracle is sometimes thought of as a perceptible interruption of the laws of nature. Others suggest that God may work with the laws of nature to perform what are considered miracles.
Gray (1984:127) says that in miracle plays is a form of late medieval drama. Dramatisations of saint’ lives and miraculous events and legends (distinguished from the mystery play which dealt with biblical stories). The most famous example is the cycle of forty-two French plays called Miracles de Notre Dame (late fourteenth century).
3. THE ANALYSIS OF MIRACLE
3.1 Life is Miracle
Hazel Grace is in diagnose thyroid cancer stadium IV at the of age 13. She ready to die but not because of it. Miracle happens to Hazel when she has to use drug that is still in testing, it could stop the growth of cancer in his lungs. The drug named phalanxifor in the shape of a tube of oxygen cylinders in green weight only a few pounds. It deliveres two liters of oxygen to her each minute through a cannula, a transparent tube that split just beneath her neck, wrapped behind her ears, and then reunited in my nostrils. So far she can continue to survive with the help of tube for her lungs cancer and successfully resisted with the help of medicines. The Hazel lives her life with a variety of shortcomings.
“I had ridicuously fat chipmunked cheeks, a side effect of treatment. I looked like normally proportioned person with a balloon for a head. This was not even to mention the cankle situation.” (The Fault In Our Stars, p. 9)
Hazel grace is a mother who dotes on her because she is only daughter. Her faithful mother accompany her. Like other teens, sometimes Hazel only pacified by her parents, which causes related to her condition.
In the winter, her age going to 17, her mother thinks she is depressed, because of she is rarely leave the house, spend quite a lot of time in bed, read the same book over and over, eat infrequently, and devotes quite a bit of my abundant free time to thinking about death. Finally, after her mother brings Hazel meet the Doctor, Doctor Jim subscription pharmaceutical agreeably that Hazel wallow in depression that really cripples because of medication adjusted.
“Whenever you read a cancer booklet or website or whatever, they always list depression among the side effects of cancer. But, in fact, depression is not a side effect of cancer. Depression is a side effect of dying.” (The Fault In Our Stars, p. 3)
To reduce depression her mother asks Hazel to join with a Group Support. Hazel must attend weekly meetings Support Group in support of these Hazel meet with other cancer patients. The group meet every Wednesday in the basement of a stone-walled Episcopal church shaped like a cross. We all sit in a circle right in the middle of the cross, where the two boards will have met, where the heart of Jesus will have been. The Support Group leader is Patrick, and the one a person who is 18 years old in the room. He talks about his life, touch he is about to die but it turns out he does not die of cancer in his testicless.
improve his career prospects, waiting, as well all do, for the sword of Damocles to give him the relief that he escaped lo those many years ago when cancer took both of his nuts but spared what only the most generous soul would call his life.” (The Fault In Our Stars, pp. 4-5)
Where Hazel meets the guy turn Augustus arrives his low voice, and chanting and wonderful sexy named Augustus section aged 17. Augustus sufferes bone cancer (Osteosarcoma) and has lost one of his legs. Augustus join the Group Support because of the encouragement of his friend Isaac. The reason the joining Augustus with the Support Group that he feels strong again to deal the rest of his life by saying.
“The hour proceeded apace: Fights were recounted, battles won amid wars sure to be lost; hope was clung to; families were both celebrated and denounced; it was agreed that friends just didn’t get it; tears were shed; comfort proffered. Neither Augustus Waters nor I spoke again until Patrick said, “Augustus, perhaps you’d like to share your fears with the group.”
“My fears?’
“Yes.”
“I fear oblivion,” he said without a moment’s pause. “I fear it like the proverbial blind man who’s afraid of the dark.” (The Fault In Our Stars, p. 11)
that our species ever did anything. There will be no one left to remember Aristotle or Cleopatra, let alone you. Everything that we did and built and wrote and thought and discovered will be forgotten and all of this” Maybe that time is coming soon and maybe it is millions of years away, but even if we survive the collapse of our sun, we will not survive forever. There was time before organisms experienced consciousness, and there will be time after. And if the inevitability of human oblivion worries you, I encourage you to ignore it. God knows that’s what everyone else does.” (The Fault In Our Stars, p. 12)
3.2 Recovery is Miracle
Some of the members of the Support Group that includes humans who suffer from acute cancer have experienced haling though not its all (total). The spirit continue to believe that is the key to not hold dissolved in grief and keep the spirit of they normal people who deserve to stay health.
“Which meant there was quite a lot of competitiveness about it, with everybody wanting to beat not only cancer itself, but also the other people in the room”. Like, I realize that this is irrational, but when they tell you that you have, say, a 20 percent chance of living five years, the math kicks in and you figure that’s one in five. . . so you look around and think, as any healthy person would: I gotta outlast four of these bastards.” (The Fault In Our Stars, p. 5)
perfect. They argue a miracle cancer is small stuff in may by children not in a cancer patient can by children of normal.
“Yeah,” he said. “Maybe someday.” He sighed in a way that made me wonder whether he was confident about the existence of someday. I knew osteosarcoma was highly curable, but still.” (The Fault In Our Stars, p. 23)
Then Hazel is telling outline her miracle to Augustus which is when she is thirteen, in thyroid cancer diagnosis stadium IV appearing three months after her first menstruation then her parents tells Hazel that her sickness can’t cure. Hazel undergoing something called the dissection of neck radical, afterward in doing radiation then she tries a kind of chemotherapy to all tumors in her lungs. When her age was fourteen, her tumors is growing and her lungs was filled by water. She looks like a corp, both her hands and feet are swelling is her shattering skin like and her lips were perpetually blue. Hazel get a remedy for us an PICC, can breathe in at add a dozen other drugs. Treatment that lasts for several months but when is Hazel admission to the ICU pneumonia. Her parents are very worried, her mother seen strong, until the end of her father is attempting to not cry his final cry. Everyone thinks she is dead, but her cancer doctor, Maria, managed to remove some fluid from his lungs. They give antibiotics to treat pneumonia it started working. Antibiotic is named Phalanxifor molecules designed to attach themselves to the cancer cells and slows the growth of cancer.
daily Phalanxifor. Admitelly, my cancer miracle had only resulted in a bit of purchased time. (I did not yet know the size of the bit.) But when telling Augustus Waters, I painted the rosiest possible picture, embellishing the miraculousness of the miracle.” (The Fault In Our Stars, pp. 25-26)
3.3 Prayer is Miracle
Meeting every Wednesday on forced by a Support Group basement of a stone walled church Episcopal and shaped like a crucifix in the content by in the content by the cancer patient, they usual sit together to form a circle right in the middle of the cross, at the meeting of the two board that from a cross in the heart of Jesus is located. That’s because Patrick who always leading a Support Group in any of the meeting, he is always talking about the heart Jesus and said they are a cancer patient young sit exactly in the heart sacred Christ for forming a loop trust so that they does not really give up quickly verdict of cancer disease will always dead. But can fixed firmly with the help of a prayer asking to the Lord so that they have always believed by prayer is part of the miracle the Lord.
“Everyone was so kind. Strong, too. In the darkest days, the Lord puts the best people into your life.” (The Fault In Our Stars, p. 26)
know the difference. Neither of us said anything for the rest of Support Group. At the end, they all had to hold hands, and Patrick led us in prayer
“Lord Jesus Christ, we are gathered here in Your heart, literally in Your heart, as cancer survivors. You and You alone know us as we know ourselves. Guide us to life and the Light trough our times of trial. We pray for Isaac’s eyes, for Michael’s and Jamie’s blood, for Augustus’s bones, for Hazel’s lungs, for James’s throat. We pray that You might feel Your love, and Your peace, which passes all understanding. And we remember in our hearts those whom we knew and loved who have gone home to you: Maria and Kade and Joseph and Haley and Abigail and Taylor and Gabriel and . . .” (The Fault In Our Stars, p. 14)
4. CONCLUSIONS AND SUGGESTION
4.1 Conclusions
Miracle is beyond man’s power because it happens amazingly. The power of miracle comes from God when man feels hopeless to face his problem in life. Therefore, the miracle is related to supernatural occurance that reaches man’s limited power.
In John Green’s The Fault In Our Stars, the miracle shows how it still exists in the present moment. It opens the insight of man’s pride, disbeliefe, or ignorance that there is power above power in terms of God. So, the potrayal of miracle through character in this novel has proved how miracle is a kind of amazing reality.
Miracle forces the sickness such as cancer that limits man’s death. When the death does not happen as what man has throught, it is a sort of miracle which happens in the real world.
4.2 Suggestion
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APPENDICES
SUMMARY OF THE FAULT IN OUR STARS
Here's the whole sordid tale. Dying girl meets hot boy. Hot boy and dying girl fall in teenage love and go on adventures to Amsterdam together. Dying girl is disappointed by her meeting with a certain author whom she idolizes. Dying girl and hot boy admit their love to each other and have physical relations. In a horrible twist of fate, dying girl lives while hot boy dies. The end.
Confused and a little intrigued? Don't worry about it—we'll go a little slower (and add a little detail) to make the summary just a bit more palatable and easy to follow.
We open up the story with Hazel Grace, who is your average teenager except for the little fact that she's got all sorts of cancer inside her body and her
lungs aren't working very well.
Hazel is in Support Group one day when a new boy catches her eye. Well, to be accurate, they catch one another's eyes. Soon enough, she and Augustus are flirtatious friends and talk to each other about everything. Hazel shares her favorite book, An Imperial Affliction, with Augustus, and together they obsess about the unsolved ending. Augustus manages to somehow get through to the author and when Hazel emails him, he invites her to come to Amsterdam to discuss the ending of the book. A fan's dream come true.
though, he also loses his girlfriend Monica, who can't "deal" with having a blind boyfriend. Yeah, we think she's a little superficial too, but whatever.
So Augustus surprises Hazel by telling her that he still has his wish (the "Wish" that they grant to dying children) from when he had cancer and lost his leg, and he'd happily use it to take her to Amsterdam to meet Peter Van Houten, reclusive author of An Imperial Affliction. Ah, true romance. Hazel of course, is over the moon about the whole idea, but first she has to convince her hovering, worried parents and her skeptical doctors.
Eventually, they manage to get their trip in order and take off into the great unknown with Hazel's mother in tow. They go to Amsterdam and have beautiful and romantic times, but when they meet Peter Van Houten, it doesn't exactly go as planned. First of all, he's a mean drunk. Second of all... well actually, no, that's totally it. He's just a mean drunk and doesn't answer any of Hazel's questions. Hazel is angry and upset, but Van Houten's assistant Lidewij takes her and Augustus out to explore Amsterdam. They see Anne Frank's house, where things are kind of redeemed because she and Augustus finally kiss. Ooh la la. They go back to the hotel room and even steamier things happen.
When he dies, Hazel is shocked and filled with grief. At his funeral, though, she gives a different eulogy than the one she had written him. Why? Well, she realizes that she needs to deliver something that's tailored to his parents, who are the ones suffering now (not him).
At the funeral, she's shocked to see that Peter Van Houten is there. She talks to him and realizes that he wrote An Imperial Affliction because he had a daughter who died of cancer. She's no closer to liking Van Houten as a person, but she understands a little more why he's so tortured and crotchety. She also learns from Isaac that Augustus was writing something for her before he died. She proceeds to go on a kind of crazy search for what he's written, which she thinks might be the alternate ending to An Imperial Affliction that she wanted so badly. She also learns that her mother is taking classes to become a Support Group leader, and is relieved that there will be life for her parents after she dies.
BIOGRAPHY OF JOHN GREEN
John Green is the New York Times bestselling author of Looking for
Alaska,An Abundance of Katherines, Paper Towns, and The Fault in Our Stars.
He is also the coauthor, with David Levithan, of Will Grayson, Will Grayson. He was 2006 recipient of the Michael L. Printz Award, a 2009 Edgar Award winner, and has twice been a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. Green’s books have been published in more than a dozen languages.
In 2007, Green and his brother Hank ceased textual communication and began to talk primarily through video blogs posted to YouTube. The videos spawned a community of people called nerd fighters who fight for intellectualism and to decrease the overall worldwide level of suck. (Decreasing suck takes many forms: Nerd fighters have raised hundreds of thousands of dollars to fight poverty in the developing world; they also planted thousands of trees around the world in May of 2010 to celebrate Hank’s 30th birthday.) Although they have long since resumed textual communication, John and Hank continue to upload two videos a week to their YouTube channel, blog brothers. Their videos have been viewed more than 200 million times, and their channel is one of the most popular in the history of online video. He is also an active Twitter user with more than 1.2 million followers.
