H4 PO book
Basics
1. General information
a) What is the title of the book you’ve read and the name of its author?
The fault in our stars by John Green.
Content
2. Title
a) Explain the title of the book. Explain if this title suits the book or not.
Sometimes the less fun things in life are unavoidable. Hazel and Augustus can’t help it.
But despite the fault in their stars, they can still make their dreams come true and have
a nice life. The title beyond dusk at the book, because despite the fault in the stars they
can still have a nice life. So the title really suits the book.
b) Give one quote from your book that illustrates the title.
‘’The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves, that we are underlings’’.
c) Explain your quote.
This quote comes from a Shakespeare play, the play Julius Caesar. This is the first
sentence that Peter van Houten writes in his letter to Augustus.
3. Author's purpose
a) Explain what the author meant by writing the book; what was the author's purpose
when he wrote this book?
He came up with the idea when he was working at the hospital. He saw a lot of people who lost
someone by a disease.
He tries to make clear in the book that if you have cancer, your life is not over and you have to make
something fun of your life.
b) Give one quote from your book that illustrates this purpose.
‘’The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves, that we are underlings’’.
c) Explain your quote.
Sometimes the less fun things in life are unavoidable. Hazel and Augustus can’t help it.
But despite the fault in their stars, they can still make their dreams come true and have
a nice life.
4 Place
Write about one of the places in the book. Please describe:
a) Where is it?
, Hazel and Augustus live in Indianapolis, but they go to Amsterdam.
b) What does it look like?
They talked the most about Amsterdam in the book. Amsterdam is a busy city with very
old buildings. ‘’It looked nothing like America. It looked like an old painting, but real.
Everything achingly idyllic in the morning light. And I thought about how wonderfully
strange it would be to live in all place where almost everything had been built by the
death’’.
c) Is it a real place or not? How do you know this?
Yes it is, because Amsterdam is in our country. I was there last week. I went to the place
where Hazel and Augustus spent their time together. I was there together with Anna
and Riva in the neighbourhood ‘’Jordaan’’.
d) Could the story take place somewhere else? Why (not)
No, because they’re going to Amsterdam to meet Peter. He is a Dutch writer and lives in
Amsterdam. But it could also take place in another big city in Europe.
e) Describe an important scene in the book that takes place here.
The meeting with Peter van Houten ends with an argument. Peter turns out to be an alcohol addict.
He says also very inappropriate things.
5 Time
Write about which in which era (approximately) the story takes place. Please describe:
a) When does the story take place?
The story is set in our time today
b) How do you know this?
Because, they have Iphones and fly to Holland.
c) Could the story take place in another era? Why (not)?
It could, because it is a love story and that can always happen. But if it was in an another
era, they couldn’t go to Amsterdam by plane and that would make the story very
different.
d) Describe an important scene in the book that shows in which time the story takes
place.
Well, actually in the whole book, they use words from now. Like what the fuck or chill.
They didn’t use those words in the past.
6 Scene
Describe one scene from your book by answer the following
questions:
a) Which characters are in it? Why?
Hazel, Augustus and Peter van Houten.
b) What happens in the scene?
Hazel and Augustus are in Amsterdam to meet Peter van Houten. He is the author of
Hazel’s favourite book ‘An Imperial Affliction’. The book is about a girl with a disease,
but the book suddenly ends in the middle of the story. Hazel would like to know what
happened to the other characters in the book. That’s why she’s going to interview Peter
van Houten, but when she’s with him, he is very unkind and uninterested. He was drunk.
Basics
1. General information
a) What is the title of the book you’ve read and the name of its author?
The fault in our stars by John Green.
Content
2. Title
a) Explain the title of the book. Explain if this title suits the book or not.
Sometimes the less fun things in life are unavoidable. Hazel and Augustus can’t help it.
But despite the fault in their stars, they can still make their dreams come true and have
a nice life. The title beyond dusk at the book, because despite the fault in the stars they
can still have a nice life. So the title really suits the book.
b) Give one quote from your book that illustrates the title.
‘’The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves, that we are underlings’’.
c) Explain your quote.
This quote comes from a Shakespeare play, the play Julius Caesar. This is the first
sentence that Peter van Houten writes in his letter to Augustus.
3. Author's purpose
a) Explain what the author meant by writing the book; what was the author's purpose
when he wrote this book?
He came up with the idea when he was working at the hospital. He saw a lot of people who lost
someone by a disease.
He tries to make clear in the book that if you have cancer, your life is not over and you have to make
something fun of your life.
b) Give one quote from your book that illustrates this purpose.
‘’The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves, that we are underlings’’.
c) Explain your quote.
Sometimes the less fun things in life are unavoidable. Hazel and Augustus can’t help it.
But despite the fault in their stars, they can still make their dreams come true and have
a nice life.
4 Place
Write about one of the places in the book. Please describe:
a) Where is it?
, Hazel and Augustus live in Indianapolis, but they go to Amsterdam.
b) What does it look like?
They talked the most about Amsterdam in the book. Amsterdam is a busy city with very
old buildings. ‘’It looked nothing like America. It looked like an old painting, but real.
Everything achingly idyllic in the morning light. And I thought about how wonderfully
strange it would be to live in all place where almost everything had been built by the
death’’.
c) Is it a real place or not? How do you know this?
Yes it is, because Amsterdam is in our country. I was there last week. I went to the place
where Hazel and Augustus spent their time together. I was there together with Anna
and Riva in the neighbourhood ‘’Jordaan’’.
d) Could the story take place somewhere else? Why (not)
No, because they’re going to Amsterdam to meet Peter. He is a Dutch writer and lives in
Amsterdam. But it could also take place in another big city in Europe.
e) Describe an important scene in the book that takes place here.
The meeting with Peter van Houten ends with an argument. Peter turns out to be an alcohol addict.
He says also very inappropriate things.
5 Time
Write about which in which era (approximately) the story takes place. Please describe:
a) When does the story take place?
The story is set in our time today
b) How do you know this?
Because, they have Iphones and fly to Holland.
c) Could the story take place in another era? Why (not)?
It could, because it is a love story and that can always happen. But if it was in an another
era, they couldn’t go to Amsterdam by plane and that would make the story very
different.
d) Describe an important scene in the book that shows in which time the story takes
place.
Well, actually in the whole book, they use words from now. Like what the fuck or chill.
They didn’t use those words in the past.
6 Scene
Describe one scene from your book by answer the following
questions:
a) Which characters are in it? Why?
Hazel, Augustus and Peter van Houten.
b) What happens in the scene?
Hazel and Augustus are in Amsterdam to meet Peter van Houten. He is the author of
Hazel’s favourite book ‘An Imperial Affliction’. The book is about a girl with a disease,
but the book suddenly ends in the middle of the story. Hazel would like to know what
happened to the other characters in the book. That’s why she’s going to interview Peter
van Houten, but when she’s with him, he is very unkind and uninterested. He was drunk.
