hazel and augustus went to cancer patient support group on their first meeting in the book the fault in our stars.
hazel and augustus went to cancer patient support group on their first meeting in the book the fault in our stars.
where do hazel and augustus go on their first meeting in the book the fault in our stars?
cancer patient support group
hazel grace lancaster, a 16-year-old with thyroid cancer that has spread to her lungs, attends a cancer patient support group at her mother's behest. at one meeting, hazel meets a 17-year-old boy currently in remission named augustus waters, whose osteosarcoma caused him to lose his right leg. augustus is at the meeting to support isaac, his friend who has eye cancer. they meet after the support group and begin to talk. when everything seems to be going well, augustus pulls out a cigarette and puts it between his lips. hazel is disgusted by this and yells at him saying that he's already got cancer and he wants to pay money for more cancer. augustus explains that he does not actually light the cigarette. he says, "you put an object of death right between your lips, but you don't give it the power to kill you." hazel, impressed by this, goes to his house to watches a movie. hazel and augustus strike a bond immediately and agree to read each other's favorite novels. augustus gives hazel "the price of dawn", and hazel recommends "an imperial affliction", a novel written by peter van houten, who lives in amsterdam, about a cancer-stricken girl named anna that parallels hazel's own experience. after augustus finishes reading her book, he is frustrated upon learning that the novel ends abruptly without a conclusion. the novel ends in the middle of a sentence, which means she either died or became too sick to continue telling the story. hazel explains the novel's author had retreated following the novel's publication and has not been heard from since.
the fault in our stars
while on the plane to amsterdam, augustus confesses his love for hazel. hazel and augustus finally meet van houten but are shocked to find that he is a mean-spirited drunk. horrified by van houten's behavior, lidewij confesses to having arranged the meeting on his behalf, angering van houten, who proceeds to insult hazel's cancer, starting an argument and causing hazel and augustus to flee from his home. lidewij resigns as van houten's assistant and takes hazel and augustus to go to the anne frank house, where augustus and hazel share their first kiss. hazel and augustus go out for a fancy dinner while in amsterdam where they drink champagne and "taste the stars." later that night hazel and augustus have sex in augustus's hotel room, the first time for both of them. during their intimacy, hazel tells augustus she loves him.
the fault in our stars