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Augustus Waters

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At some point in life we all have been devastated with a sudden death of someone we loved and cared for. I can connect this to John Green’s fiction novel, The Fault In Our Stars, when the main character Augustus Waters dies. Hazel tells the audience, “Augustus Water died eight days after his prefuneral, at Memorial, in the ICU, when the cancer, which was made of hi, finally stopped his heart, which was also made of him” (Green 261). Hazel was so upset when the love of her life died. She never expected it to come so soon. I was so surprised that Augustus died before Hazel, it came out of nowhere. I just thought all along that Hazel would die first because she seemed more ill and had many more medical issues throughout the novel. When I read

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