Monday, July 14, 2014

My thoughts about Chapter 17 to 20

I think in these chapters you really can see how both Augustus and Hazel suffering.
You can feel that their would be an end soon and I think that makes everything extremely sad.
Even if not that much happens in those chapters, those are still very important for the relationship between Augustus and Hazel.
I think there are a very cute couple, always telling each other, they love them, although they went threw so Taff times.
But I´m pretty sure Augustus is going to die, even when it´s very sad. But I´m interested in how Hazel is going to mention this sitation.

Summary Chapter 20

Hazel talks about the clichéd notion of the cancer patient´s “Last Good Day”. She says you never know when the pain seem bearable.
After that hazel gets a call from Augustus and he asks her to meet him that night at the location where Support Group is held. He asks her to prepare an eulogy.
Hazel tells her parents, that she´s going to meet Augustus that night and they protest that they never get to see her any more. Hazel gets angry, saying they uses to complain she was a homebody.
She shouts that she doesn´t need her mother like she used to and then storms off to her room, to write the eulogy. Later her father block her, while she was going to leave and Hazel tells him, that Augustus asked her to write him an eulogy.
When Hazel arrives, she saw Isaac standing at a lectern facing Augustus. Augustus states he wanted to attend his own funeral. In his eulogy Isaac describes Augusts as a “vain”; “pretentious”, “self-aggrandizing bastard”, who was uniquely capable of interrupting and editing his own funereal. Isaac concludes by stating, he will get robot eyes in future for fear of seeing a world without his friend.
Then it´s Hazels turn. In her eulogy she is telling, that Augustus was the love of her life. She also says she won´t talk about their love story since it will die with them and instead explains how some infinities are longer than others.
Then she says how thankful she is for the little infinity she and Augustus had.

Summary Chapter 19

Augustus arrives home from the hospital, a few days later. The following day Hazel meets Augustus´s older half-sister, their husband and their children.
When Augustus wakes up, he asks to go outside. Hazel and the entire family join him. As they all talk Augustus jokes about his incredible “hot body”.
He says, seeing it took Hazels breath away, pointing to her oxygen tank.
Augustus´s father whispers to Hazel, that he´s thankful for her every day.
As the chapter closes Hazel notes it was the last good she had with Augustus, until the “Last Good Day”.

Summary Chapter 18

Hazel wakes up at 2:35 a.m. to a call. She´s sure it informs her that Augustus has died.
Instead it´s Augustus asking her to help him.
Their´s something very wrong with his G-tube and he´s stuck at a gas station. He tells her not to call the police or his parents and to come and get him.
Hazel is sleepy and perplexed but drives to the gas-station, where she finds Augustus sitting in the driver´s seat.
Hazel suspects the G-tube tract into Augustus´s abdomen is infected. Hazel calls for an ambulance. Augustus mumbles about only wanting to buy a pack of cigarettes on his own.
Hazel thinks about how much Augustus has changed. He begins to rant about how much he hates himself and just want to die.

Summary Chapter 17

Now it´s a month ago, Hazel and Augustus returned from Amsterdam.
Hazel goes downstairs to Augustus´s bedroom one afternoon, to find him laying in his own urine.
She shouts for his parents and waits upstairs while they clean up.
When she returns later on, they play Video Games and Hazel feel awkward.
Augustus is extremely weak and they can´t play for long.
Trying to make him feel better, Hazel tells “Gus”, that she pissed the bed plenty of times. He says she used to call him Augustus. And follows, that he thought he was special and would have a story worth telling.
Hazel wishes, that it was enough for him that she thinks he´s special. She says she and his family and his life are all he gets. He won´t ever be a hero, NBA star or Nazi slayer. When she tries to apologize, Augustus says she´s right and the two go back playing video games.


My thoughts about Chapter 10 to 16

I think that chapter 10 and 11 are both written very long, the individual scenes are described with to much detail and I thought it was very exhausting to read threw these both chapters...
In chapter 12 happened a lot and also important things. I was kind of disappointed from Peter Van Houten, because he was totally different, then I imagined. I thought this was sad.
But I think the total shock was at Chapter 13, when Augustus mentions, that he is sick. I mean Oh my God, who expected that?
And after that chapter you really can see, how Augustus is suffering, so I hopes he will be ok, but I got the feeling he maybe woudn´t...

Summary Chapter 16

Hazel depicts a typical day with late-stage “Gus”. She goes to his house around noon and meet him at his front door in a wheelchair.
They go out to the backyard and Augustus mentions he misses Hazels swing set.
Hazel and Augustus fall asleep together while listening to his favourite band and after they played “The Price of Dawn”.