LITERARY ANALYSIS CHECKLIST

TITLE: THE FAULT IN OUR STARS

ASSESSMENT STRATEGY: An arduous analysis of the literary work
CANDITATE’S NAME: Alexis Contreras Panty DATE: 20/08/2019
SUPERVISOR: Eugene Chipana PHASE(S): 4 “c”

ACHIEVEMENTS: SCALE
Candidate ANNOTATIONS
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recognises…
1The plot. X Hazel Grace Lancaster is a 16-year-old
cancer patient, meets and falls in love with
Gus Waters a similarly afflicted teen from
her cancer support group. Hazel feels that
Gus really understands her. They both
share the same acerbic wit and a love of
books, especially Grace's touchstone, "An
Imperial Affliction" by Peter Van Houten.
When Gus scores an invitation to meet the
reclusive author, he and Hazel embark on
the adventure of their short lives.
1The setting(s) X Time:
The year is never explicity mentioned, but
based on context clues such as physical
setting and technology the story takes place
presumably anytime between 2008 and
2012.
Indianapolis:
The setting in Indianapolis is all quite
indoors and quite stifling. Hazel describes
Indiana as someplace where she feels
confined: "it was a cloudy day, typical
Indiana: the kind of weather that boxes you
in." Most of the setting is indoors, yet
Augustus takes Hazel outside sometimes. It
is a small setting, they have limitations to
where they can go.
Amsterdam:
The setting in Amsterdam is so different
from Indianapolis. When Augustus and
Hazel go to Amsterdam, it isn't just a new
country, it is a new life. Amsterdam is where
Hazel and Augustus fall in love. They meet
Peter Van Houten, and even though it isn't
what they wanted, it was still an amazing
experience.
1The protagonist(s) X The protagonist of the novel The Fault In
Our Stars would be a girl named Hazel
Grace Lancaster. The protagonist of the
novel The Fault In Our Stars would be a girl
named Hazel Grace Lancaster.
1The antagonist(s) X The antagonist of this novel would be the
cancer.
2The role of the Principal Characters
characters: dynamic or Hazel Grace Lancaster: The main character
static.
in the novel; The story is from her point of
view. She is a teenage girl that has lung
cancer, and is terminally ill. She likes to
read and her favorite book is An Imperial
Affliction. She likes to watch America's Next
Top Model. Hazel is not in school because
she has cancer. She takes college courses
sometimes though. She goes to a cancer
kid support group at her church sometimes.
Hazel has no siblings, but has two parents
that love her. Hazel is a dynamic character
of the novel.
Augustus Waters: Augustus lost one of his
legs to Osteosarcoma. He goes to support
group at the beginning of the book and
cannot stop staring at Hazel, because she
looks just like his old girlfriend that died to
brain cancer. He ends up going to
Amsterdam with Hazel. He had his leg cut
off so the disease wouldn't spread, but it
turns out that it did. Augustus ends up dying
after they get back from Amsterdam.
Augustus is a static character of the novel.
2The X One example of direct characterization
characterization: would be when Hazel is describing what
direct, indirect
she looks like. This is at the beginning of the
book when she arrives at the support group.
Other example of indirect characterization
would be that Hazel has a stubborn
personality. This is shown when she has to
go to the support groups and usually
doesn't talk and get annoyed when she has
to.
2The motivation X As the writer wrote before that Hazel Grace
is a sixteen years old girl who was
diagnosed with thyroid cancer. In the earlier
of the story, she does with depression,
however, she needs to live life and how she
is 16 years old, love, strength and miracle
are her motivation.
2The conflict: The main conflict in “The Fault in our Stars
internal, is that both Hazel and Gus are suffering
external,
character vs badly from cancer, and they are both on the
character, verge of death. Before they both met each
nature, self. other, they were getting better, but only
because they were too cautions, and they
weren´t living the fun, crazy life that 16 year
olds should live. When they meet each
other, they start going out and having more
fun. This makes them happier, but it is
making their health much worse.
3The foreshadowing. Augustus begins writing to Van Houten;
Augustus frequently sacrifices himself in the
video games he plays; Augustus argues
with his parents before leaving on the trip to
Amsterdam.
3The symbols. The “cigarette metaphor” that Augustus use
to symbolize control, is superficial and
almost illusory because at the most crucial
moment where ‘control’ becomes a matter
of life vs death, the ‘cigarette metaphor’ falls
apart.
3The metaphors. “If you never light the cigarette, you never
give the thing that can kill you the Power it
needs to kill you”.(by Augustus)
One of the biggest metaphor though is the
water metaphor. Every living creature needs
water to survive and Hazel, suffering from
thyroid cancer is threatened everyday from
drowning in water. What is necessary for life
could (and will be since she's terminal) kill
Hazel. Water appears everywhere in
Hazel's life: she needs it to survive, it's
filling her lungs, and Augustus's last name is
Water's. Amsterdam , the author of "An
Imperial Affliction" lives is always
threatened by flooding since it is at water
level. The history of Amsterdam is a
metaphor for the life that Hazel lives.
"I'm on a roller coaster that only goes up"
(Metaphor) (p.11)
"The sun was a toddler insistently refusing
to go to bed: It was past eight thirty and still
light" (Metaphor) (p.167)
3The similes ..preternaturally huge, like his whole head
was basically just his fake eye and this real
eye staring at you" (Simile) (p.6)
"...the tears not like tears so much as a
quiet metronome - steady, endless" (Simile)
(p.60)
"My hair looked like a bird's nest; my
shuffling gait like a dementia patient's"
(Simile) (p.108)
4The flashbacks X The main flashback that Hazel had during
the novel were to the day that she almost
died, right before she started to take a
special type of medication that keeps her
alive. She thinks back to that day often
when death comes close to her. She thinks
of how she could barely breathe and how
her parents would sob and cry next to her
as she struggled to breath. This helps her
relate to death of other people and cancer
victims in general.
 4The allusions X The title of the book is a line from The
Tragedy of Julius Caesar ”The Fault, dear
Brutus, Is not in our stars / But in ourselves”

4The imagery X ------ I did not find this aspect------

4The climax X Hazel rushes to the gas station where
Augustus, very sick, finds himself stuck and
helpless.
5The resolution The resolution of The Fault In Our Stars
happens after Augustus Waters dies. At his
funeral Peter Van Houten shows up. He
finds Hazel and tries to apologize for how
rude he was to her and Augustus. Peter
reveals a secret that he has not told many
about why he never really finished his book.
He says that he had a daughter who also
had cancer and died. The main character in
the book resembled his daughter. Peter
ends up telling Hazel what he would have
wanted to happen if he finished the book.
5The point of view X Hazel narrates the story in the first person,
giving the reader access to her thoughts but
also limiting the reader’s perspective to
what she sees.
5The theme(s) X The Necessity of Suffering
The importance of the word
The health
Fear of Oblivion
The Insensitivity of the Universe
The Realities of Cancer
The Importance of Fiction
5The onomatopoeia/ “Huzzah” (25)
a:noum…pi:a/
hyperbole "You'll live forever in our hearts, big man."
(Hyperbole)
"I screamed to wake up my parents, and
they burst into my room, but there was
nothing they could do to dim the supernova
exploding inside my brain, an endless chain
of intracranial firecrackers..." (Hyperbole)
1 Not at all
2 Fairly well
3 Completely
 LITERARY
ELEMENTS

Character: A person or animal who takes part in the action of a story, play, or other
literary work
Static character: one who does not change much in the
coarse of a work Dynamic carácter: changes as a result of
the story's events Protagonist: the main character in a work
of literature
Antagonist: the character in a work of literature that opposes the protagonist
Indirect characterization: revealing the personality of a character by words of a
character, description of the character's thoughts and feelings
Direct characterization: when the writer directly tells the reader a description of a
character's looks and clothing, or that the character is amusing brave, or lonesome,
or specifically the build or height or age of a character
Motivation: any force that drives or moves the character to behave in a particular
way
Conflict: a struggle or clash between opposing characters or forces
Internal conflict: takes place within a character's mind
External conflict: character struggles against some outside force
Character vs carácter: one character is in conflict with another character; external
Character vs nature: character in conflict with a natural force; external
Character vs self: character has to make a decision; internal
Foreshadowing: the use of hints and clues to suggest what will happen later in a
plot
Symbol: Person, place, thing, or event that stands for itself and for something
beyond itself as well.
Metaphor: an imaginative comparison between two unlike things in which one thing
is said to be another thing
Simile: a comparison between two unlike things using a word such as like, as, then,
or resembles
Theme: the truth about life revealed in a work of literature or the main subject of a
talk,book,film,etc.
Personification: a figure of speech in which a nonhuman or nonliving thing or
quality is talked about as if it were human or alive
Flashback: an interruption in the action of a plot to tell what happened at an earlier
time or a short part of a film,story, or play that goes back to events in the past.
Onomatopoeia: the use of words whose sounds echo their sense (boom pow zap)
Allusion: a reference to a statement, person, place, or an event from literature,
history, religion, mythology, politics, sports, or science
Dialect: a way of speaking that is characteristic of a particular region or group of
people
Alliteration: the repetition of the same or very similar consonant sounds in words
that are close together
Suspense: the uncertainty or anxiety you feel about what will happen next in a story
Imagery: language that appeals to the senses
Plot: the series of related events that make up a story
Setting: the time and place in which the events of a work of literature take place
Climax: the most emotional or suspenseful moment in the
story Resolution: when the characters problems are solved
and the story ends Point of view: the vantage point at which
a story is told

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