I think I need to know why the creator decided to end the book with Augustus Waters dying if the one who was more sick was Hazel. I also need to know why Peter Van Houten, who was Hazel's favorite author, didn’t want to answer her questions on the book that she had read. Since he was the only one who understood how it was like to be dead, but not be dead, why was it so hard for him to answer her questions when she went to Amsterdam just to see him. I would also want to know why Augustus didn’t tell Hazel when he got his cancer back, there must be a good reason for why he didn’t tell her.
Hazel the main character faced problems and struggled in the book Watership Down. The first problem Hazel faced was deciding if he should leave the warren after Fiver predicted that bad things will come to the warren. Hazel decided to take some friends and leave the warren to find a new and maybe even better warren. The conflict is Hazel had to lead the group to find a new home. Hazel is the leader of their group and takes advice from Fiver. The rabbits struggle to travel through the woods as they faced predators and nearly got lost in the woods.. The rabbits found a field but due to it being a death trap Hazel decided to take the group away from the warren. Hazel and the others would face a big challenge and this actually leads to the climax..
Augustus realizes that a lot of people let their cancer identify them, which it seems at first like Hazel does. Through the novel Augustus mentions multiple times how he wants his life to mean something other than cancer. “I fear that I won’t be able to give anything in exchange for my life. If you don’t live a life in service of a greater good, you’ve gotta
People choose to be happy by overcoming difficult circumstances. They go out and live life, ignore the adversity, and focus on what makes them happy instead of wallowing about what makes them sad. Augustus Waters from “The Fault in Our Stars” chose to be happy despite his hardships. Waters replaced the leg he lost to cancer to overcome the adversity.
As Hazel first introduces herself she gives off a quite sophisticated but also depressed vibe. My first impression of Hazel was that she was a little too smart for a girl who hadn't been to school in three years. I soon learned that she took classes at the local community college. A couple weeks into support group Hazel meets her match and is instantly drawn to the intriguing character of Gus. I could immediately tell that gus and Hazel had a mutual attraction but a roadblock stood in the way, cancer. The relationship that soon developed between Hazel and gus is what intrigued myself, how they both were incredibly scared to hurt the other emotionally. They bonded over their overuse of symbols and metaphors. For example, how gus used the cigarettes as a metaphor… “It’s a metaphor, see: You put the killing right between your teeth, but you dont give it the power to do its killing.” (Green, 20). I could immediately tell that Hazel has become immensely attracted to Augustus and they would soon become star
It is sudden news to Hazel Grace, she had no idea that it had come to that. It should have strong symbolic or metaphoric possibilities: I have interpreted cancer in this story to represent the weakness within the characters. Cancer in the novel is meant to represent going against the conventions of the feel-good falsehoods of battling cancer that coddles the public against the terrible subject. Augustus’ death is extremely symbolic because he dies in the most pitiful of ways. It was humiliating for he and Hazel Grace with his constant bed-wetting, disability to walk, and the complete lack of whom he once was.
On the other hand, Hazel Grace is an independent character who struggles with cancer, trying her best to isolate herself from others in fear that the disease will kill her and she will leave her loved ones behind. Her opinion on having close, loving relationships changes once she falls in love with Augustus. Hazel becomes a
Hazel Lancaster, a teenage girl with the fourth stage of thyroid cancer, is forced to join the Support Group due to her parents’ will. Her world has totally changed after meeting a high school basketball player that lost his right leg to cancer, Augustus Waters along with his friends, Issac. Hazel and Gus together becomes a perfect bond. Hazel shares her affection toward the book called An Imperial Affliction with Gus and anticipates knowing the ending because the story just left undone. A week later, Gus reveals that he is able to track down Van Houten's assistant,
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.”
Overcoming a terminal disease is not easy, and I have experienced that with my mom, first hand. Usually when this happens and the person dies, you go through five stages of grief. When Augustus Waters dies in the novel, Hazel experiences this. The first stage is denial and isolation. Denial by its very definition is asserting that a statement or allegation is not true. It can be seen that the
Two characters who have died of a disease are Augustus Waters from the novel Fault in Our Stars by John Green and Edward Cullen from the movie series “Twilight” directed by Catherine Hardwicke. In Fault in Our Stars, Augustus Waters nicknamed Gus, was Hazel Grace Lancaster’s boyfriend, who suddenly died from a certain bone cancer known as osteosarcoma cancer. Once Gus died it created a dramatic effect on his family and friends. After Gus’s death Hazel had a different change in attitude towards life itself. The theme was changed from the topic of strength to positivity. This also goes towards the mood that was mournful and ended the novel with happiness. On the other hand, in the film “Twilight”, it explains that Edward Cullen was saved by
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
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
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
The two main places that involve the two main characters, Hazel and Gus, were Amsterdam and Indianapolis. Hazel was scared that she will one day hurt the ones who love her when she would one day die from her lung cancer. When Hazel had to go to the emergency room that one time because of fluids in her lungs, Augustus was scared Hazel might die. Then as we learn towards the end of the novel, Hazel ends up being scared of Augustus dying when his cancer came back. Hazel was angry when Augustus died besides being very upset. They were disappointed and Hazel got angry when they saw who Peter Van Houten really was. They both felt like they were cancer victims, but they made the best of it with each other by going to Amsterdam and other events. They had many safe times such as when they were at the Support Group and Amsterdam because there were no health related emergencies and they had a good time together. The dangerous times is when Hazel had to go to the emergency room due to fluids in her lungs and when Augustus got his cancer back.
Their relationship drives the plot forward because the story is about how they fall into love and support each other through hardships; it drives them to go see Mr Peter Van Houten together and to care for each other even as Augustus is dying. The story also explores the theme of dying as their relationship struggles to keep afloat with Gus suffering from terminal cancer, and Hazel has to deal with grief as she copes with her partner’s death. Most importantly, their relationship highlights the theme of love. Hazel and Gus are devoted to each other up till the very end of the story, as seen from… Their relationship illustrates the enduring and touching power of love.