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What do you think of Hazel?

I felt so bad for her! I did not see (view spoiler)[ it coming that Augustus was going to die! I thought that in the end it was going to be her that died. It made me incredibly sad. I was like, "WHAT? NO! GUS CAN'T DIE!!!!!" (hide spoiler)] but I really liked the book.

Hazel Grace Lancaster was astonishingly brave during her cancer battle. John Green creates a beautiful story with beautiful characters who spend their teenage years fighting for their lives.

Hazel is refreshingly real and her intellectualism drew me in.

She is such an amazing character! John Green did a beautiful job developing her. I felt as if i really knew her and i sympathized with her. She was such a brave individual and dealt with her hardships in a very mature manner. Hazel is one of my all time favourite book characters.

Hazel is an amazing character, she is so strong and funny and just amazing whitout stepping over that line so she is anoyingly perfect , her imperfections make her perfect! I love her!!

She is extremly muture, intelligent and funny! She is a great rolemodel and I hope that one day I will have her positiv sight at life (not that I'm depressed or anything, she's just so strong) :)

I see hazel as a beautiful person, and I felt like i could really understand her, Johns writing really brought out a lot of empathy. Having to cope with not BREATHING properly? Insane. I love her and her vocabulary and interests, but the only thing i didn't necessarily like but DID make the book more interesting was hazels attitude
(view spoiler)[/for example when that girl said she admired her. Not how i would have reacted, and it made me kind of withdraw from hazel, but at the same time it shows me what she has went through, and makes her character more realistic.(view spoiler)[ she's just a great inspiration and person, such a difference from real life teenagers. (hide spoiler)] (hide spoiler)]

Omg this spoiler thing is confusing me! I tried to do (view spoiler)[/ then I wrote something, then did < spoiler > , and the text erased itself?
Lol that post took a long time to make! (hide spoiler)]

I thought Hazel was a great narrator. She was very witty. :)

I like her down to earth personality. Her ability to see beyond her horrible situation is humbling. Her worry about how her death will effect those around her is also very mature and sad that she tries to keep those who would enrich her life at a distance. Shes pretty amazing. I cried a lot during the book and movie.

She's one of those rare YA heroines that I can actually stand. Like Heidi said, she's down-to-Earth. I love that about her. I really loved that part at the mall where the little kid was asking her about her oxygen tank and she let her breathe with it. It was so sweet.

There aren't many YA protagonists like her. She was so refreshingly relatable and strong... God, John Green is a miracle worker.

she infuriates me to the point where i just read the book for the story line, not her.

Really? Why did she annoy you?

yeah, she really really annoyed me. i can't even explain why.

Hmm. Hazel was my best heroines of all time. Why?. I admit she's strong and independent girl i've ever met. Not to shallow or shabby she just her. Beautiful, brave and have a sense of humor. John green did a really great job describing her in a perfect way of a girl that had a cancer.

Haven't read the book but have seen the movie a couple times. I really liked her. She wasn't "pity me" all the time and she seemed very real.

Hazel is a departure from Green's "manic pixie dream girl" heroines Alaska Young and Margo Roth Spiegelman. The threat that hangs over her head is ever-present. Her emotional turmoil and angst are brought on by the knowledge that she's a time bomb--not just a teen who feels like she's going to explode.

She's a remarkable character, and I was so emotionally invested in her journey.

She's come to terms with the lot she's been dealt. She's accepted that she won't grow up and have children. Then Augustus Winters shows her, in the winter of her own life, how to live. She does things she never thought she would, and she interact with people who have been dealt even crueler hands than her own.

Hazel is so amazing.

She's too extra

I enjoyed her character, though I feel like a girl her age would be more sulky.

I'll bet it depends on the girl. Illness changes perspective IMHO. Of course I could be influenced by the Corona Virus. (Not sure such an evil phenomenon deserves those capital letters even if it is a specific virus.)

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There is only one word I can say about Hazel 'PERFECT'. Before The Fault In Our Stars Hazel was just an eye color for me.
She is so brave even after Augustus' death.

Wonderful statement: "Before The Fault In Our Stars Hazel was just an eye color for me."

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Hazel is amazing, because she... I can't explain it. She has her flaws, but she also does so much to overcome them. I think she is the character to look up to.

Jin wrote: "Hazel is amazing, because she... I can't explain it. She has her flaws, but she also does so much to overcome them. I think she is the character to look up to."

Yes loved her! So relatable and earthy!

I have just finished reading this book - again. But I completely agree, Hazel is just such a strong character to look up to, so amazing

Seriously? I see this book everywhere. literally EVERYWHERE!! I know it's about Cancer patients but....I don't like books with sad endings or sad books. hmmm...is it reaaaaaaly worth it? please give me a perfect honest answer...

MagiLizz☆ wrote: "Seriously? I see this book everywhere. literally EVERYWHERE!! I know it's about Cancer patients but....I don't like books with sad endings or sad books. hmmm...is it reaaaaaaly worth it? please giv..."
I do love this book and would genuinely just recommend it to anyone. But it's more than just a sad ending. Its wonderful and makes you feel things, you get attached to the characters, you feel and you learn. I personally just think it is great and that you should just go for it

MagiLizz☆ wrote: "Seriously? I see this book everywhere. literally EVERYWHERE!! I know it's about Cancer patients but....I don't like books with sad endings or sad books. hmmm...is it reaaaaaaly worth it? please giv..."

Well, I don't know about you not liking sad endings, but here's what I can say: My friend got this book to school, and I'd always wanted to read it, so I borrowed it from her and FINISHED IT IN TWO GODDY HOURS. On a school day. And I loved it. So, from my side, yes it is worth it, 100%.

MagiLizz☆ wrote: "Seriously? I see this book everywhere. literally EVERYWHERE!! I know it's about Cancer patients but....I don't like books with sad endings or sad books. hmmm...is it reaaaaaaly worth it? please giv..."

I totally understand where you're coming from, I'm the same way about sad movies. However, I've got to say that this book is truly very good. It's not just a sad ending, there's a lot more that's going on in the background. Even though I was bawling by the end of this book, I oddly felt at peace, because it seemed like everything that happened, happened for a reason. It all ties in very well together and you end up feeling a lot of emotions other than just sad. I'd definitely recommend you pick it up and just like Tisha and Cassia said, just go for it!

I found Hazel to be very charming and funny. I thought that given her circumstances, her reactions and insights to life and those around her. Green does a great job with her overall character development.

I think I like Hazel's character so much because John Green made her so ordinary and didn't make her having cancer her whole personality. She actually had a lot of depth to her which was refreshing, as sometimes when a character is facing something like cancer, their illness becomes entirely who they are, therefore making their character rather boring and the book less enjoyable.

I love Hazel, she's a smart young woman who loves reading. I understand her wanting to know the ending of a book and falling for Gus.

AJ wrote: "I think I like Hazel's character so much because John Green made her so ordinary and didn't make her having cancer her whole personality. She actually had a lot of depth to her which was refreshing..."

This is spot on. Hazel is so witty and funny, and John Green writes so beautifully it just makes you love her & Gus more and more.

Hazel was so calm with Augustus's death I could never like I cried in the middle of social studies and everyone was staring at me-

I love Hazel I think sometimes she reminds me of myself. (besides having cancer) . I've read this book several times it is one of my favorites. I think Hazel is just honest about what she's going through having to grow up knowing something could happen to her at any time. She doesn't live in a make-believe world. She is a very smart woman always educating herself with knowledge (the way she speaks) and with what's going to happen around her. I love the way John Green did this character. I think it's a great read for when you want a quick read or something to get back into reading.

I love Hazel, she's smart, kind, and very mature. She's brave for fighting cancer as long as she has and I love her relationship with her parents, Issac, Caitlin, and especially with Gus. This book left me gutted.

I'll admit, from the get-go I was indifferent towards Hazel for a while. She seemed like the typical heroine, the girl who'd never be the main character but is picked by the male lead for some mundane reason.

Then, when she met Augustus, I just slightly disliked her as they started to interact more, mostly because of him. There were times where both of them acted too philosophical for my liking, but now that I've finished the book, I figured that it must just be a side affect of dying and knowing you are.

As the book progressed further and I got over my dislike for Augustus, I started liking Hazel more. In a sense, she was raw-- unenthused by unrealistic realities, while welcoming the ones introduced to her all the same via the support group and Augustus.

When she was upset about the "ending" to Imperial Affliction I realized that she, as I'd sometimes forgotten because of how philosophical she can get, really is just a girl. I liked that she was passionate about something so seemingly miniscule, and upset when that something was almost shattered in front of her. I think it gave her character more depth, the way that she was reasonably upset with her favorite author and was seemingly entitled to her ending.

That being said, getting to know Hazel felt like getting to know a real person. I saw the things about her that made her unusual first, and then the annoyances. John Green didn't fail to show me after all of that, though, that she was a teenage girl that would mean more than her illness, even if she did succumb to it.

Overall, Hazel resonated with me by the end of the book.

Did hazel die? Anyways she was a Baddie tbh