Does the description of Amsterdam remind you of any place you’ve been to? Would you like to be there? Why (not)?
The description of Amsterdam doesn't remind me of any place I've been. I supposse, that although I've in many fantastic places, it reminds me to none of them because each place has its own magic.
After reading that beautiful and magical description, I would absolutely like to go there, but I know that the description can make me have expectations that, if in the case I went there, can sadly fade if the place wasn't how I imagined it.
John Green is so smart in making his readers be transported to that magnificent dinner Augustus and Hazel share. While contemplating all the beauty around, Augustus said: “People always get used to beauty...” Do you agree with him? Justify your answer.
I don't agree totally with him. I think that what happens is that we start losing the opportunity of feeling amazed by beauty, and that maybe we get used to it, but I don't think we stop recognizing the pulchritude of things.
Since the very first moment, Hazel and Augustus have got involved in serious discussions about subtle themes, such as afterlife. What do they each believe about it?
Augustus believes that we have souls, and that after we die there is something with a capital "S". He has always believed in that "Something". On the other side, Hazel doesn't believe in afterlife because for her "always" is an incorrect concept, although actually she isn't so sure that there is absolutely nothing.
Hazel couldn’t stop associating her disease to her surrounding reality. No matter how breath-taking Amsterdam turned out to be, she somehow found the way to compare it to “her medical condition”. Expand on this.
How do you think Hazel must have felt while/ after meeting Peter Van Houten?
Over all, frustrated and dissapointed. She spent a lot of time worshiping PVH and considering him as his best friend, so realizing that he was so rude, that wanted to know nothing about the novel and that he was the extreme oppossite of what she mights have imagined he was, would had been a big letdown.
Would you say their trip to Amsterdam was worth their effort?
I think that yes, because although they wasted time with PVH, they got time to reinforce their relationship, and because they did something that anyone in their condition wouldn't be able to do. They travelled to another continent, something that they might have never thought they would be able to do. I believe that despite the bad time they had, the rest of the trip was beautiful and magical for them.