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Augustus Waters The Fault In Our Stars
The story mainly takes place in two major places. Most of the time it takes place in Indianapolis. Then later on in the book, they go to Amsterdam. The book first starts off in Indianapolis. Most of the book takes place there and most of the important stuff happens there. Then some of the book takes place in Amsterdam. Here some significant things occur like that Hazel finds out Augustus’s secret and Hazel also finally gets to meet her favorite author of all time. I would like to mention a really important theme that I have noticed. I think the thematically significant type of pain in this book is that the death of a loved one has to be necessary sometime in your life,
The main character of The Fault in our Stars are Hazel Grace Lancaster and Augustus Waters. Hazel is more an honest, smart and happy person. I think that she is honest because when she went to Amsterdam to her favorite author she straight up told him what is on her mind. She is smart because she is seventeen and she already is a college student. I think that she is a happy person because she enjoys life even though she has cancer and doesn’t have much longer to leave, I would consider Augustus Water a nice, sarcastic, and funny person. He is
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There were some situations that I would've changed. It bothered me that Augustus Waters died at the end of the story. I would've also chosen more places that the story could have taken place in. There should have been different places. I liked how Hazel's favorite author turned out to be a complete jerk. He seemed so nice and polite over the emails but once they traveled all that way to meet him he was a complete jerk. I have to admit I did cry while I was reading this book because at the ending of the book Gus died and I thought that was the saddest part of the whole book. I could say that I didn't want that to happen but then the book loses of interest. I would really recommend reading this book. It is a fabulous

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