Hazel Grace

Augustus makes an impact on Hazel’s life. Augustus and Hazel meet at Support Group and grow a close bond. Augustus and Hazel fall deeply in love throughout the story. When Augustus’ cancer sprung up again, he asked Hazel to write him an eulogy. In Hazel’s eulogy she says, “My name is Hazel. Augustus Waters was the great star-crossed love of my life. Ours was an epic love story, and I won’t be able to get more than a sentence into it without disappearing into a puddle of tears”(Green 259). This shows that when Augustus dies he will leave a (mental) scar on Hazel, because Hazel will deeply miss Augustus when he dies. Augustus transformed Hazel

He shapes this story around the form of a teenage girl named Hazel Lancaster, who believes that her terminal lung cancer is simply a ‘side effect of dying’. Hazel has undergone various treatments since she was a child, but she knows that death could be at the next traffic lights. She stumbles upon Augustus Waters one day, who introduces her into a world of initial frustration, which consequently develops into mutual understanding. The two spend many days and experiences together, bonding over quick witted remarks and their common circumstances, eventually blossoming into young love.

She desperately starts to look for this last testament with hope that she could have changed something. Later comes depression; in the finding and hunting for Gus’s last testament she feels frustrated and slowly starts to depress. Until that spark of flame ignites her and she reaches the last stage of grief, which is acceptance. She finally finds the last testament which ends with this: “You don’t get to choose if you get hurt in this world but you do have a say in who hurts you, and I like my choices, and I hope she likes hers. Okay, Hazel Grace?”. (Green. 313) With her response being: I do. Peter Van Houten became a monster after he lost his daughter to Leukemia. He is a symbol of what you can become if you do not overcome grief. John Green was wise when incorporating him to the novel because he put him as a species of foreshadowing tool of what could have happened if Hazel would not have accepted Augustus’s death. She saw that and she accepted

Hazel grace is a dynamic character because she changes throughout the story. In the beginning, Hazel doesn’t want to get close to Augustus, because she was afraid he is going to be shattered when she dies. But towards the ending, hazel finds out it doesn’t matter if you die in the middle of a relationship, it’s about the moments you spend together. A quote in the book, on page 214, “Only now that I loved a grenade did I understand the foolishness of trying to save others from my own impending fragmentation: I couldn’t unlove Augustus Waters. And I didn’t want to.”

Last but certainly not least the plot of the story! Hazel Lancaster is depressed but she doesn’t think she is. And she needs a little excitement in her life and she gets it and its name is “Augustus Waters.” He is literally the best thing that has happened to her. It’s kind of like when she went to the support group and sat in the “literal Heart of Jesus” he was answering her parent’s prayers. Because remember Hazel thinks she just fine. But we all know she isn’t. So it all worked out until something bad happened and then her whole life went downhill.

“You know… its kids’ stuff, but I always thought my obituary would be in all the newspapers, that I’d have a story worth telling. I always had this secret suspicion that I was special” (Green, 240). When Augustus and Hazel meet at his house after support group he shows her his medals and tells her the story of how he used to be a basketball player till the day he got diagnosed with osteosarcoma cancer, a type of bone cancer that spreads from one limb in the skeleton to another, which is why he has an artificial leg. Augustus also tells her about his family and sisters then asks her

In conclusion, John Green uses the characters of Hazel and Augustus to portray the theme of ‘the necessity of suffering’. This novel has changed my perspective of terminal illnesses. Before reading the novel, I was not quite away of what it was like to live with an illness as severe as cancer, yet still carrying on with a normal lifestyle. Also, I was able to achieve insight about society’s view about cancer patients. Since Green has not ended the novel stating whether Hazel lives or dies, he stated in an interview that it was up to the readers to create Hazel’s ending with their imagination. I predict that Hazel will pass away. Her cancer was very severe and there were hints about Hazel becoming weaker. I would definitely recommend this book as it was an enjoyable, yet heart

Hazel Grace. An average teenager except she has caner. She is hooked up to an oxygen tank to help her breath. She is told by her mom to go to a support group and so one day she did. While at support group she meets Augustus Waters who is there to support his friend Isaac who is bline in one eye and is going in for surgery soon for the other eye and then he will be completely blind. After support group while outside Augustus approaches her and ashes her is she wanted to come over and watch a movie. Augustus had his leg amputated due to his cancer which now he is cancer free. Hazel and Augustus were talking about their favorite novels and then Hazel introduced Gus to "An Imperial Afflcition" and Gus introduced Hazel to "The Prince of Dawn."

Chapter 4 -5 – Hazel talks about Imperial Affliction, ends without character resolution. Call Augustus with a distraught Isaac. Augustus invites Hazel. Augustus says Isaac’s girlfriend, Molly, broke up with him. Augusts states to Hazel, ‘Pain demands to be felt.’ Gus sends Van Houton email. Hazel sends email. Van Houton replies. Isaac eye surgically removed. Van Houton replies unable to answer her questions, but invites her to Amsterdam. Augustus agrees to take Hazel to Amsterdam with his Genie Foundation wish.

Though sad this ending had meaning, because Hazel was the one trying to separate herself so she would not hurt anyone. But at the end she ended up being hurt when Augustus died, though his death was so predictable

When Hazel and Augustus came back from Amsterdam Augustus health was deteriorating. One day he decides to go to the gas station to by a pack of cigarettes knowing he was sick he then noticed that something was terribly wrong with him so he called Hazel and hazel rushed over to him. When she took a closer look she noticed that he had an infection where they had entered his tubes. When she saw this she said she was going to call 911 but he said no but she called anyways. When they came to take Augustus to the hospital. While their in the ambulance Augustus asks Hazel to read a poem as he loses conscience. This is a near death experience death because he had an affection and while unconscious something could have gone wrong and he could have died. When you get an infection you have to rush straight to the hospital. If it was not for Hazel he could have been

As she battles with cancer, falls love, and tries to find her happiness. From the beginning of the book, Hazel tries to advocate for herself to find happiness, along the way she faces justice. Hazel has been encouraged to attend a support group that includes other teenagers who are battling cancer. They are lead by the loving and super encouraging former cancer patient, Patrick. Hazel despises going to support group, can’t stand Patrick’s positivity, and overall just rather stay inside her home and away from society. “So Support Group blew, and after a few weeks, about the whole affair. In fact, on Wednesday I made the acquaintance of Augustus Waters, I tried my level best to get out of Support Group while sitting on the couch with my mom in the third leg of the twelve-hour marathon of the previous season’s America’s Next Top Model, which admittedly I had already seen, but still.” (Green 6) It’s simple and clear that staying home and watching tv is what makes Hazel happy, and she will go through almost anything to get that satisfaction. At the time Hazel doesn’t know that at Support Group she will meet her true love Augustus Waters. As the story progresses she finds her happiness and meaning of life with the intimate relationship she shares with Gus. While Hazel stays home and watches tv she has also created a love for the only book she reads; An Imperial Affliction. The book is about a girl battling cancer and her story. Though Hazel admits she doesn’t like it because it is relatable to her life she adores the writing of the book. When she falls in love with Gus he uses his “wish”(a cancer perk from the Genies) his to send him and her and a trip to Amsterdam to meet Peter Van Houten, the author of An Imperial Affliction. Hazel is astonished and is very eager to get answers about the book though the experience has a slight turn when Peter Van Houten is drunk when they visit him. “YOU PROMISED!”

Interestingly, Augustus got in contact with a charity that gives cancer kids a wish. Augustus decided to use his for the two of them to go on a trip to Amsterdam to meet Peter and Lidewij. In the midst of this, Hazel painfully experiences her lungs filling up with fluid causing her to be rushed to the hospital. She lives, however her personal doctors say she isn’t healthy enough to go to Amsterdam. During one of her cancer meetings, one of her doctors, Dr. Maria, says that Hazel should live her life, convincing

At first, Hazel and Gus were merely acquaintances. In the first chapter, where they meet, Hazel is only mildly interested in Augustus’ “metaphoric resonances”. When he puts a cigarette into his mouth, Hazel is thoroughly disgusted and she feels that “there is always a harmatia”, which shows that she is repulsed by his behaviour upon their first meeting. As the plot develops, they become much closer friends, as seen from Augustus regularly inviting her to his house and finding common interests in her book, talking about the book and often quoting from the book in their conversations, for instance: ‘Augustus nodded at

The book revolves around 16 year old Hazel Grace Lancaster, and 17 year old Augustus Waters. Hazel doesn’t lead an ordinary teenage life, she suffers of lung cancer. After a long time of struggling with her illness, her parents decide that