Obviously, this is seriously going to limit the amount of control she can have over her own life, as she is physically unable to do some of the things that a healthy person would be able to do. Since then, she’s been given a drug that cleared up the worst of her symptoms, but there’s no cure she relies on support machines to breathe properly and spends most of her life under some kind of supervision (either medical or parental). It’s established in the first few pages that she has a very serious form of thyroid cancer that almost killed her a few years before the story starts. This is actually a pretty tricky question in Hazel’s case. Does the character shape her own destiny? Does she actively try to change her situation and if not, why not?.As for Hazel herself, she has been praised as a breath of fresh air in YA fiction, a relatable and realistic character, and a role model for young girls everywhere.īut does she live up to her reputation? Let’s find out – but watch out for spoilers! The story has been made into a very successful movie, described as ‘the love story of a generation’ and inspired swathes of merchandise with the word ‘okay’ on it. Hazel is a teenage girl with terminal cancer, and the story chronicles her budding relationship with another cancer patient, Augustus Waters, and the trip they make to Amsterdam. For those of you that don’t know, Hazel Grace Lancaster is the main character of John Green’s wildly successful novel, The Fault in Our Stars.
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