Text 5: An extract from The Fault In Our Stars (the end paragraph)

'“What else? She is so beautiful. You don’t get tired of looking at her. You never worry if she is smarter than you; You know she is. She is funny without ever being mean. I love her. I am so lucky to have her, Van Houten. You don’t get to choose if you get hurt in this world, old man, but you do have some say in who hurts you. I like my choices. I hope she likes hers."

I do Augustus.

I do.'

Audience: I would say this book is aimed at teenage girls, as the main character is just that.

Purpose: The whole purpose of the book is to entertain the reader, but I think that this last paragraph has a purpose of its own, to keep up the mystery of what happens to Hazel and to round of the book in a very interesting and different way.

Format: Extract from a book

Interesting Language Features: John Green uses a rhetorical question to begin the paragraph, and then goes on to answer it with lots of short sentences, building tension. I also like how Hazel’s reply to the letter was so short as well, like it left her almost speechless and not only did It leave her reeling but it leaves the readers reeling when they realise that’s the end of the book, and nothing more happens.

How does the gender of the audience might have influenced this text: The fact that it was aimed at teenage girls may mean that John Green has written things in this paragraph that teenage girls would want to hear coming from a boy about them, and he went very dramatic about how much Augustus loves Hazel, which perhaps makes the audience be drawn to Augustus even more than before from the rest of the book.