Why Does Augustus Get Rid Of The Hurdless

Named after the grandiose first Roman emperor, Augustus’s character is of a strong, brave and confident boy who fetishizes his grandiosity, just like the man he was named after. Augustus makes a point in the story where he explains ‘hurdlers. I don’t know why. I started thinking about them running their hurdle races, and jumping over these totally arbitrary objects that had been set in their path. And I wondered if hurdles ever thought, you know, this would go faster if we got rid of the hurdles’. He is trying to express what position he feels like Hazel and he are in; they are traveling through the journey of life, which is naturally full of problems and hurdles although they have found a major hurdle that they are not able to jump over or