Straightforward Augustus Waters’ Characteristics

His optimism can also be seen through his conversation with Hazel Grace Murphy’s theory of characterization which is speech when he declined Hazel Grace’s attempt to tell about her “cancer story” by asking her interests, hobbies, passions, or weird fetishes p. 32. It can be elaborated by his statement: “Don’t tell me you’re one of those people who becomes their disease. I know so many people like that. It’s disheartening. Like cancer is in the growth business, right? The taking-people-over business. But surely you haven’t let it succeed prematurely.” 2012: 32. Augustus’s statement above shows his disagreement for Hazel to embrace her disease because he thought that it was disheartening or discouraging. The way he disliked people who embrace their disease that was disheartening shows that he is an optimistic person based on his speech conversation with Hazel. It can be strengthened by Hazel Grace’s thought that affirms Augustus Waters as an optimistic person : It occured to me that perhaps I had. I struggled with how to pitch myself to Augustus Waters, which enthusiasm to embrace, and in the silence that followed it occur red to me that I wasn’t very interesting” 2012: 32-33. Hazel’s thought through the theory of characterization by Murphy which is character as seen by another above shows that she still struggled to cope up with Augustus Waters’ optimism. For instance, by knowing which things that should be embraced enthusiastically and she even affirmed herself that she was not a very interesting person because of not embracing her hobbies, passions, and interests that could complement her life. Thus, her thought strengthens the fact that Augustus Waters is an optimistic person, seen through the way he prioritizes his interests, passions, or hobbies instead of worrying or dwelling too much on his life-threatening disease osteosarcoma. His optimistic personality is proven through Murphy’s theory of characterization which are speech and character as seen by another.

2. Hazel Grace’s Characteristics

Hazel Graze is the other main character in this novel. The characteristics of Hazel Grace will be explained in two parts due to the different characteristics that oppose each other in a certain time setting. The first part will explain Hazel Grace’s characteristics that can be seen before she met Augustus Waters. The second part will explain Hazel Grace’s characteristics that can be seen after she met Augustus Waters.

a. Before Meeting Augustus Waters

i. Pessimistic

Hazel Grace is a pessimistic person. She is a girl who does not think about her state of health. Hazel seriously does not care about her life and always thinking about her death, wanting it to be happening soon because she is desperate enough to bear lots of medication. Looking at her condition, her mother is afraid that Hazel is not seizing life and decided that Hazel was depressed, but actually she is not depressed. She just wants to do what she likes. It can be indicated by her thought: “I rarely left the house, spent quite a lot of time in bed, read the same book over and over, ate infrequently and devoted a bit of my abundant free time to thinking about death” 2012: 3. Based on her thought and it also can be seen through Murphy’s theory of characterization which is thought, it shows that she is pessimistic to herself by doing activities that are not giving her the positive