Augustus Grace Quotes

This quote “The real heroes anyway aren’t the people doing things; the real heroes are the people noticing things, paying attention” is said when Augustus Waters is writing to Peter Van Houton asking him if he could write a eulogy for Hazel Grace. What Augustus is saying is that Hazel never noticed his cancer, what she did do was fall in love with him no matter the circumstances. She payed attention to him regardless his prosthetic leg. Another way of seeing this quote in the book is Peter Van Houton noticed that Augustus waters and Hazel Grace did love each other and wanted to pay it to Augustus to attending his funeral. Van Houten noticed that Augustus went out of his way to make Hazel happy in any way possible.
My feelings towards real
heroes are the people noticing things are passionate because you will always remember when you impacted someone's life like Augustus did to Hazel, she never thought she was going to fall in love with a guy or have a regular life but she did. I agree with this quote, I do believe that people noticing things are heroes because they take their time to observe. Paying attention to a person can impact their life in a positive way such as them having a bad day and you interfering by having a friendly conversation to make it better. For example some of the residents at Thomas Rest Haven have dementia or Alzheimers, both relating to memory loss. They may repeat the same story over and over again but just by listening, keeping a smile, and agreeing will make their day better. In my view I relate to the quote. I like paying attention and noticing my residents because some don’t realize why they are there or what they are doing at times.