Optimism and Pessimism of Hazel Grace in John Green’s Novel The Fault in Our Stars

Abstract

This study was deal with the optimism and pessimism in Hazel Grace of John Green’s The Fault In Our Stars novel. This research reviews the literature examining connections involving the key constructs of optimism and pessimism. Individual differences in characteristics such as optimism and pessimism have been shown to contribute to variability in distress during stressful situations. The write tried to analyze how the optimism and pessimism can be correlated to literature and how illness can be reflected to the main character from the novel entitled The Fault in Our Stars. The most dominant type of optimism from this research is dispositional optimism and the most dominant type of pessimism from this research is dispositional pessimism. The optimism and pessimism can effect to someone’s life caused by some factors such as illness and depressed like the main character from The Fault in Our Stars novel.