What might have been the cause for Hazel and Augusuts to have hit it off straightaway?
I think it is because their attitudes and personalities are very different from the one of the rest of the people. So, when they met and noticed that the other one had a personality that they liked, they hitted it off.
Still, I don't have many things about this subject. I believe that what they had was kind of love at first sight, and that kind of love doens't have many explanations.
In their first encounters, Hazel tells us: “I considered lying. No one likes a corpse...but in the end I told the truth...” Why did she consider lying at first? What does she refer to when she later tells Augustus about her “miracle”?
She considered lying because she didn't want him to pity her, I guess. She knows that having left school three years ago is simiar to saying that she was very bad, that she was in the final stretch. When she tells him about her miracle, she means about the miracle that she got and incurable cancer, all the horrible treatment she went through and specially that then they found a medicine that could stop the cancer cells to keep growing.
When it comes to talking about cancer, Augustus answers to Hazel: “Don’t tell me you’re one
of those people who becomes their disease...” (p 13) What’s your opinion on this comment?
What attitude does Hazel have towards her medical condition?
I think that although it might be tough comment, it can be true. There are people that become their disease, because there comes a moment where their life goes around their disease, being the only thing they do or feel.
I really don't what to say about her medical condition. She is aware of it but I don't think it bothers her too much. Instead, I believe that what bothers her about it is that her condition affects her most beloved ones, so she wants to be isolated from people, so nobody gets engaged with her so nobody hets hurt.
As soon as Hazel enters Augustus’s house, she comes across many encouragements; choose
the one that particularly calls your attention and expand on it.
Home Is Where the Heart Is
This one particularly calls my attention because I've lived in many different places and I know that that is absolutely true. Home is where the heart is, and the heart is usually where your most beloved ones are.
This one particularly calls my attention because I've lived in many different places and I know that that is absolutely true. Home is where the heart is, and the heart is usually where your most beloved ones are.
Anticipate how Hazel’s days will be from the moment Augustus partly confesses his interest
in her. Make your guess.
When I first read the book, I guessed that she would also show interest in him, and that building a relationship with each other (a friendship, or whatever) could help Hazel to have a more interesting life. It could help her to take her out of her routine.