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.
Laurie was diagnosed with the Epstein-Barr Virus. Before too long, she was exhausted constantly, no matter when she went to bed, she could not physically get herself out of bed. One day she finally went to the emergency room and found out she had a large tumor in her chest.