FAULT IN OUR STARS Hazel Grace Lancaster‚ a 16-year-old teenager with thyroid cancer that has spread to her lungs‚ attends a cancer patients’ support group at her mother’s behest. During a support meeting‚ Hazel meets a 17-year-old teenage boy named Augustus Waters‚ whose osteosarcoma caused him to lose his leg. Augustus is at the meeting to support his mutual friend‚ Isaac‚ who is losing his remaining eye to cancer. The two bond immediately after the meeting and Augustus invites Hazel to his house where
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Plot Summary Hazel Grace and Augustus Waters meet at a Support Group meeting for cancer patients. Augustus is a friend of Isaac‚ one of the boys Hazel talks to at the meeting with cancer in his eyes. Augustus had osteosarcoma a year and a half ago‚ and as he describes‚ “I’m on a roller coaster that only goes up.” So he is doing well. Hazel still has thyroid cancer‚ which effects her lungs. Hazel and Augustus become really good friends and share a love for a book titled An Imperial Affliction
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a story about the way children overanalyze little white lies. Bambara tells the story as if a child was talking in first-person view. Throughout the story Hazel talks about different instances of her share of what she thought was being lied to. The read was very enjoyable because it was something that I could relate to. For instance‚ when Hazel and her friend are at the movie theater and she says‚ “ …we yell some more and some kids slip under the rope and run up and down the aisle just to show it
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surprises Hazel Grace with a trip to Amsterdam to meet the author she admires. After meeting Peter Van Houten‚ Hazel was not thrilled to see what type of lifestyle he lived. He was a selfish man with drinking issues. She was not as inspired by his writing after meeting him. Augustus did not have the reaction he was looking for from Hazel. Augustus wants the first trip they go on together to be the time of her life so he took her out to dinner after meeting Peter. After eating Augustus leads Hazel to a
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recognise in The Fault in Our Stars. Loss of innocence has to do with someone gains new experiences or learning new things and it can be good or bad. Hazel experiences many joys and heartbreaks throughout the book. Because of Hazel her cancer‚ she didn’t have really a childhood so she was already at a young age very grown up. In the beginning of the book is Hazel a lonely and depressed girl who still lives to keep her parents happy‚ besides that she didn’t find a reason to live. She only found joy in her
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develop a greater meaning than he originally suggests. Augustus goes to his cigarettes whenever he is feeling insecure‚ or afraid. One of the main examples of this idea from the story occur when Augustus is calling Hazel from the gas station when his health is deteriorating. He rants on to Hazel‚ “‘I wanted to buy a pack of cigarettes‚’ he mumbled. ‘I lost my pack. Or they took it away from me. I don’t know. They said they’d get me another one‚ but I wanted… to do it myself. Do one little thing myself
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the photograph of Hazel Bryan yelling at Elizabeth Eckford the main difference you may perceive is skin color. But the difference is much greater than that and later on they may discover they even have some things in common. Elizabeth Eckford is one of the Little Rock Nine that unsuccessfully tried to enter Central High‚ an all white school. Elizabeth hurried from the school scared but determined to reach safety as many white people gathered around yelling and threatening her. Hazel is one of the few
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out above the rest‚ this is simply the power of love. Hazel and Augustus both suffer and/or suffered from some type of cancer and upon meeting one another neither felt complete. Hazel was depressed while Augustus felt a void in his life. Therefore‚ this is the most important theme in this story because no matter what chapter is being read by the reader‚ the effect of love is expressed on every page and in every line. From the very beginning Hazel and Augustus’s love for one another is undeniable‚ it
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Augustus takes Hazel to meet her beloved author Van Houten. In the book they have a quester which is Hazel. They have a place to go which is Amsterdam and a stated reason to go there which is for Hazel to find her unanswered questions about Imperial Affliction. Also they have challenges along the way such as she has cancer so it’s risky for her to be on a plan and millions of miles away from her doctors and Van Houten turns out to be a horrible drunk and doesn’t even answer Hazel dying to be answered
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