How To Read Literature Like A Professor Quest

• “Every trip is a quest.”
In the book How to Read Literature like a Professor it states in every novel “every trip is a quest” and consists of so many things such as a quester, a place to go, a stated reason to go there, challenges and trails en route, and a real reason to go there. In the book The Fault in Our Stars there is a scene that goes perfectly with this, when Augustus takes Hazel to meet her beloved author Van Houten. In the book they have a quester which is Hazel. They have a place to go which is Amsterdam and a stated reason to go there which is for Hazel to find her unanswered questions about Imperial Affliction. Also they have challenges along the way such as she has cancer so it’s risky for her to be on a plan and millions of miles away from her doctors and Van Houten turns out to be a horrible drunk and doesn’t even answer Hazel dying to be answered questions. But sadly the real reason to go there was to find out Augustus has cancer. The real reason for every quest is self-knowledge, Hazel had no idea Augustus has cancer until he had told her.
• “It’s more than just rain or snow.”
It can also define or develop character/characters. In The Fault in Our Stars the setting is in Indianapolis but it’s not like everyday tourist town it is Indianapolis of the sick. For Hazel her home is basically just around things that involve cancerz. The setting is really claustrophobic. Hazel spends most of her time in her room reading the same book over and over again and watches America’s Next Top Model, one of her favorite shows. Hazel describes where she lives as a place that she’s trapped in "It was a cloudy day, typical Indiana: the kind of weather that boxes you in" (pg 48) This affects her attitude towards the town and all the people who live there, it’s basically a town filled with sick people trying to help each