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.
hazel, also 15, was the white girl with the hate-filled face standing directly behind her, screaming epithets. Oprah Disses a Civil-Rights Icon David Margolick October 27, 2011. He is lean, well muscled, the complexion of a hazel nut, with black, sympathetic eyes. The Marine and His Cousin the Firefighter Maurice Emerson Decaul September 10, 2013. Never have two people been more in love than Augustus Waters and hazel Grace Lancaster, and now one of them is about to die. Ranking the Saddest Scenes in âThe Fault in Our Starsâ Kevin Fallon June 8, 2014. In Fault, hazel is very fixated on meeting her idol, author Peter van Houten.