Blog Post 2

The five main elements of The Fault In Our Stars are great characters, detailed plot, conflict, suspense, and setting. The two main characters are Hazel and Augustus. With all the details used to describe these characters, as the reader you feel like you are right there beside them, knowing exactly what they are thinking  which is what makes this story awesome. A detailed plot is important for any novel, there is time and room to describe everything in detail which really hooks the reader, exactly what John Green did. Conflict is a main element because it creates suspense, another main element. Finally, setting makes the story. If the setting is appropriate and detailed the reader should feel as if they are there, which I did while reading The Fault In Our Stars.

I believe the order of these elements from most important to least important would be...
-characters
-suspense
-plot
-conflict
-setting
                                                                              http://books.google.ca/books/about/The_Fault_in_Our_Stars.html?id=4JEnMQEACAAJ&redir_esc=y

I put great characters at the top of my list, as the most important element of the book. Characters, for the most part, create the conflict, suspense, and the plot just by being themselves which I think is amazing. The two main characters in the novel I am currently reading are well described, for the most part. I feel that because the story is told from Hazels perspective it tends to lack physical description of Hazel, it describes Augustus' physical description more. If the physical detail was more evenly distributed between the two main characters than this element would be used to perfection.

" [Augustus] said, 'It's above my knee and it just tapers a little and then it's just skin. There's a nasty scar, but it just looks like-'" (Green, The Fault In Our Stars 206). This direct quotation shows that Augustus' character is well described, one of the two main characters. The main character though, Hazel, could be described more as she is focus of this novel.

Green, John. The Fault In Our Stars. New York: Dutton Books. 2012. Print.    

Blog Post 1

    Three qualities I expect from a good book are great details, suspense throughout the story, and the ability to be able to relate the events that take place in the story. Without these qualities I think that stories would be very boring and people would not want to read them. If the story was not detailed then the reader wouldn't be able to fully understand the story. If the story had no suspense then the reader would be able to predict the outcome of events and would get bored of the book very easily. Finally if the reader couldn't relate to anything in the story then the reader wouldn't have that connection to the book that makes them want to keep reading.

     Currently I am reading The Fault In Our Stars by John Green, which I believe has all of the qualities a good book should include. Every single sentence has so much detail, no little things are left out. A sentence that stood out to me was the following which described Hazel's oxygen tank. "The cylindrical green tank only weighed a few pounds, and I had that little steel cart to wheel it around behind me. It delivered two liters of oxygen to me each minute through a cannula, a transparent tube that split just beneath my neck, wrapped behind my ears, and then reunited in my nostrils" (Green, The Fault In Our Stars, 8). For only being a oxygen tank, Green provides much more detail so the reader understands the object as much as possible. The story is filled with suspense, health scare, after doctor appointment, after thoughts of death, this story couldn't be any more suspenseful! The characters are relatable even though the main character Hazel has cancer. The events and challenges all the characters face are relatable in multiple ways. Overall this novel contains all qualities I expect a good story to have.                               

Green, John. The Fault In Our Stars. New York: Dutton Books. 2012. Print.