At its simplest level, the word pas means a step or pace. However, you may be more familiar with the word as a way to form a negative sentence or phrase. To negate a sentence (the equivalent of English don't, doesn't, didn't etc), the word pas is placed after the verb.
Character List. Hazel Grace Lancaster - The novelâs narrator and 16-year-old protagonist. An astute and remarkably conscientious girl, Hazel was diagnosed at age thirteen with a terminal form of thyroid cancer that has since spread to her lungs.
Dr. Miller writes, âDr. Halloranâs therapies were helping people support their own adult stem cells to regenerate damaged eye tissue.â You can read Graceâs story in her autobiography, Amazing Grace, Autobiography of a Survivor.