New Book Cover – “The Fault in Our Stars”

 

The Fault in Our Stars by John Green tells the tale of Hazel Grace and Augustus Waters. The book cover of The Fault in Our Stars is quite simple since it is mostly a blue background with black and white clouds. I think the clouds might represent Hazel and Gus’s thoughts, since in the book Hazel is the more negative person since she thinks its not worth doing anything since she is going to die and she doesn’t want to cause anyone sadness when she dies so she sits in her room all day. While, Gus tries to be positive and optimistic around Hazel knowing that she is going to die so he tries to help her feel better since it is better to spend time with her and make the most out of it instead of just letting her be. The black cloud would be Hazels thought since I think it represents a black cloud of sadness while the white one represents Gus’s more positive way of thinking. Even at the end of the book when Gus is dying he still tries to be optimistic and tries to cheer Hazel up by cracking up jokes like saying “I’m on a roller coaster that only goes up.”

The cover I made for The Fault in Our Stars describes the story while still being quite simple like the original cover. My cover shows stars lighting up the night sky which is symbolism towards the book, in the book when they go out to the fancy restaurant which was called Oranjee in Amsterdam they drink champagne and they call the champagne stars. Also in the cover I made I added the 1# New York Times sticker since the book won an award for how good it was. I chose this cover because the bottom of it was dark while the top of it was lighter which I used as symbolism towards the book as the dark side could be the darker themes of the book like all the kids with cancer that died or the fact that Hazel will indeed die in a few years or so and the lighter side of the cover would be the more optimistic side like the way Augustus thinks. Gus is very optimistic around Hazel trying to help her and remind her to try and be as happy as possible, to live her best life since she has thyroid and lung cancer and is going to die soon.

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