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Hazel goes to support group: Hazel is forced by her mother to go to a support group at their church. Here they talk about their lives and how they are dealing with cancer.
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Hazel meets Augustus: One of the
times Hazel is at support group, her friend Isaac, who has eye cancer,
brings a friend with him. His name is Augustus. From the moment Hazel spots Augustus she is instantly attracted to him. She is scared of having such feelings.
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Augustus reads An Imperial Affliction: The book
ends in the middle of a sentence, and leaves a lot of unanswered questions.
Augustus calls Hazel and keeps asking how the book
ends.
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Augustus and Hazel e-mail Peter Van Houten: Augustus finds an e-mail address that Peter Van Houten's assistant replies to. He gives the address to Hazel and they both start writing to Peter Van Houten asking how the book ends.
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Peter Van Houten Replies: Hazel gets an e-mail from Peter Van Houten's assistant, Lidewij.
She says that Peter can not tell her the ending of the book
over e-mail or phone, or anything that Hazel might be able to record. She states that the only way that he would be able to tell her would
be for her to come to Amsterdam.
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Augustus gives Hazel his wish: There is
an organization that grants wishes to children with cancer. Each patient gets one wish. Hazel has already used hers on a trip to
Disneyland. Augustus offers to let Hazel use his wish.
- They (Hazel, her mom, and Augustus) fly to Amsterdam: The wish granting organization pays for all the expenses throughout their whole trip.
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Hazel and Augustus eat at Oranjee: Hazel and Augustus
get dressed up to go and eat at a very expensive restaurant.
Augustus wears the tuxedo he had picked out to wear at his funeral when he thought he was going to die.
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Hazel and Augustus find out the true identity of Peter Van Houten: When Hazel and Augustus get to Peter's
house, Peter slams the door in their face, and starts complaining to Lidewji about having visitors. They hear the whole
conversation. Peter Van Houten had no intention of
actually revealing the end of is book. Hazel asks her questions to Peter about the
ending of the book, but he just makes rude replies. Peter also drinks a lot of alcohol. Appalled at Peter's rudeness to
Hazel and Augustus, Lidewij quits her job as Peter's assistant.
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Augustus tells Hazel: After meeting Peter Van Houten, Augustus tells Hazel some devastating
news. His cancer is back. It gets worse and worse every day. According to his doctors, he does not have much time left.
- Augustus's pre-funeral: Augustus decides he wants to attend his own funeral. He invites Hazel and Issac to come. He asks them to prepare a eulogy.
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Augustus dies: Eight days after his pre-funeral Augustus dies. Hazel
is devastated. She cries and stays in her room for a several
days. Hazel has to speak at the funeral and it is really hard for her.
She is mad at all the people who showed up yet hardly knew Augustus. Peter Van Houten attends the funeral and Hazel is offended. Peter tells Hazel that Augustus had sent him a letter and told him to come to the
funeral before he had died.
Hazel reads Augustus's letter: Isaac tells
Hazel that Augustus had said that he was writing something for her a
few weeks before he died. Hazel searches everywhere in Augustus's house for it. She can not find it anywhere. Finally, she realizes that he had written the letter to Peter Van Houten, not her. Hazel e-mails Lidewij and asks for her help. Lidewij retrieves the letter from Peter's house and sends the pages said to Hazel over e-mail. The letter asks Peter Van Houten to
write a eulogy for Hazel.
This song is played as Hazel and Augustus arrive at Peter Van Houten's house.
Quotes- “As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.”
- “My thoughts are stars I cannot fathom into constellations.”
- “That's the thing about pain," Augustus said, and then glanced back at me. "It demands to be felt”
- “You don't get to choose if you get hurt in this world...but you do have some say in who hurts you. I like my choices.”
- “The world is not a wish-granting factory.”
- “It's a metaphor, see: You put the killing thing right between your teeth, but you don't give it the power to do its killing."
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Setting
The Fault In Our Stars is set in Indianapolis. Not the Indianapolis one may think. An Indianapolis filled with sickness, hospitals, support groups in churches, and visiting friends houses. The main character, Hazel, spends most her days in her room reading. Indianapolis supplies an indoor, limited, and compact environment for Hazel and all who surround her. The setting changes later in the book to the city of Amsterdam. Amsterdam is the complete opposite of Indianapolis. This is a place filled with canals, bicyclists, artists, shops, and of course, romance. While Hazel is visiting Amsterdam she felt almost as if she is living a whole new life. She did not have to worry about annual trips to the hospital. She feels free, something she would never be able to experience in Indianapolis.
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