Green does not portray Hazel and Augustus as heroes larger than life people, he portrays them as fairly normal, struggling along in the world. “'The real heroes anyway aren't the people doing things the real heroes are the people NOTICING things, paying attention.'” (312) This allows the reader to really connect to his characters, because they are not perfect people, they are not larger than life, they have things that make them human, they have faults, they get angry, and they can be hurt. He shows that the majority of cancer patients are just normal people who are attempting to beat the disease, and go back to regular life. He recognizes, throughout the book, that the majority of young cancer patients are not heroes, who 'fight' the disease with a passion, and set up charities and are remembered forever and ever after they die. John Green also portrays his characters as real human beings, and especially his cancer patients, for whom they are. His diction and way of phrasing his sentences allows this to shine through, hazel is a typical teenager with some atypical characteristics. Green makes Hazel likable, which therefore helps with the attachment to the character. Green writes Hazel as a snarky, intelligent young woman, but also a bookworm teen with more introverted hobbies/tendencies.

Green's sarcastic, yet out going and humorous style makes the reader feel like they know her, and assists in the formation of the attachment to the character. A nonhot boy stares at you relentlessly and it it is, at best, awkward and, at worse, a form of assault. Hazel speaks and thinks in a manner that causes the reader to feel as if they and Hazel have been friends for quite some time. The reader is able to do this due to the style in which Hazel narrates. Green makes it simple for the reader to connect to Hazel for them to understand her, and to sympathize with and realize what she is going through, even if the audience themselves have never been touched by the disease which her life revolves around. Over the course of the novel, it becomes very easy for the reader to become attached to the characters of the book, due to Green's ability to get the audience to connect to them.

John Green's The Fault In Our Stars is written in the perspective of its protagonist, 16 year old Hazel Grace Lancaster.

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