Who Is The Antagonist Of The Fault In Our Stars

The book I chose to read is The Fault in Our Stars by John Green. The genre of this book is young adult, and realistic fiction. The reason I chose to read this book was because I saw the movie and it was depressing and I liked that and wondered if the book was the same way. The protagonist of the story is primarily Gus although Hazel could be considered a protagonist also due to the story being told in her perspective. With that being said, Gus is the protagonist because although he knows Hazel has cancer and that his cancer could possibly come back, he does not let it stop him from living a normal life. He always looks at the brighter side of things which make living easier, him not looking to the worst help him through life each day. Hazel …show more content…
The cancer that lives inside of them does not let them cut loose from the medicine and surgery, and it certainly does not let them live with the delusion that they will be young forever when they can die at any moment. Instead, they are constantly struggling against the reality of their own mortality and trying to figure out how to live "normal" teenage existences despite being controlled by something so powerful. Another antagonist of the story is Peter Van Houten he gets influenced by alcohol and winds up losing friends because of it. Peter when asked for an ending by Hazel and Gus, he blows up in their face and because he was drunk and it controlled him and ruin his relationships with the only people that cared for him, which were very …show more content…
It's the Indianapolis of the sick and impaired it revolves around the places that they can see frequent cancer kids with big building like hospitals, support and help groups in churches, and occasionally each other's homes. The setting of the novel is very dull, washed out and very indoors. Hazel does spend majority of her time in her room reading the same book over and over again looking for an answer. Hazel's totally aware of it, too. She views Indiana as someplace where she feels closed in "It was a cloudy day, typical Indiana, the kind of weather that boxes you in" (Green 248). Even when Hazel becomes close with Augustus and they start doing exciting and exhilarating things together, they're still very limited in where they're allowed to go and what they can do, but they did wind up in Amsterdam, the home of Hazel’s and now Augustus favorite author, Peter Van Houten, the author of a book which ends