Talk:Hazel Grace Lancaster/@comment-75.25.128.175-20140213081413/@comment-71.227.96.218-20140412221826

To every story, there has to be an antagonist. Otherwise nothing happens. In TFiOS, the antagonist could be cancer, nature, or even Hazel's body. Peter Van Houten could also possibly be an antagonist, but this doesn't hold true throughout the whole book. '

Antagonist in itself means "a person who actively opposes or is hostile to someone or something; an adversary, enemy, or foe." So anything that is strongly against Hazel could be an antagonist, at least for a little while. Some could even say that Hazel's mom is an antagonist at one point, by forcing her daughter to go to the support group, even though it's not a very strong example.