Augustus

Augustus Waters, played by Ansel Elgort in The Fault In Our Stars, once said, “You don’t get to choose if you get hurt in this world, but you do have some say in who hurts you” (The Fault In Our Stars). This is one of many impactful quotes from this movie. The Fault In Our Stars, based on the best-selling novel by John Green, was released all across the United States on June 6, 2014. The film was produced by 20th Century Fox under the direction of Josh Boone. After the film was released, it…

About a three months have gone by since Augustus Water’s prefuneral. He is ok. He is prepared to die but I am not. He is strong and I am going to make sure that he doesn’t let the cancer conquer him. He’s alive, and I am too. … Today I went with Gus to get check out by his doctor. I was really moved by what I heard. “The tumor in his chest in decreasing. Your medication is exterminating some of the cancer cells. I am going to keep prescribing…

and Augustus is the same. These two meet at a support group meeting and instantly hit it off. Throughout the book, their families and friends are there too. This story takes place in Indianapolis where Hazel and Augustus live. Now, the story is definitely a rollercoaster. Hazel and Augustus are both still fighting cancer and its effects-- Hazel has trouble breathing and Augustus only has one leg. Together, they go on plenty of adventures including Amsterdam which ultimately leads to Augustus…

Introduction The memorable memories that Augustus Waters has left with Hazel Grace Lancaster has made Hazel grieve even more knowing Augustus is deceased. Hazel Grace Lancaster was a sixteen year old young lady, who had a touch of Thyroid cancer with metastasis forming in her lungs. She was thirteen when she had her first sign of cancer, and that was depression. “Although depression is not a sign of cancer it’s a sign of dying”. The oncologist set up a support group so Hazel could associate with…

others. She only ever refers to her parents as “Mom and Dad”. Augustus is a boy who finds the beauty in Hazel not just in her looks but on the inside. He always puts a cigaret between his teeth and would say “You put the killing thing right between your teeth, but you don't give it the power to do it's killing.” Augustus was always there for Hazel, he loved hanging out with her till his last days. A few of the minor characters are Isaac, he is also a cancer patient and a few weeks he is going…

Augustus Twain was a highwayman who rob and kill people "used to take his old sabre and sharpen it up, and get in a convenient place on a dark night, and stick it through people as they went by" One day the authorities captured and beheaded him and, his head was placed on a pike on Temple bar. "he was found stripping one of these parties, the authorities removed one end of him, and put it up on a nice high place on Temple Bar" 3.What techniques does Twain use to create satire in the description…

me feel as if I was some unknown third party that took adventures with the book’s characters. I found it amazing how authors expressed vividness, comedy, and their character’s personality. Every author had their own way of grabbing your attention. Augustus Waters’s life, the creative world of Panem, and the fighting Dauntless community were the stories that allowed me to be entertained while learning. This entertainment made me focus and subconsciously memorize the language. It was this…

Henry Augustus Squires, a merchant in Salt Lake City, had a complicated departure from the Church. In the spring of 1866, Henry returned to England. Sarah soon followed with their younger children. His plural wife, Emma Caroline Slade Squires, refused to go and stayed in Salt Lake City with their three sons. Emma gave birth to a daughter six months after Henry left. According to one of Henry’s granddaughters, Brigham Young advised the move because of Henry’s health problems. Other accounts…

love. They both are very sick with different types of cancer. Augustus ends up falling in love with Hazel. Hazel meets Augustus at a group for people with different types of sicknesses. Augustus is a very good person if you need someone to change your views about life and views about sickness. Augustus displays the power of one by standing up for his beliefs, By taking a stand against society and affecting change in Hazel's life. Augustus stands up for his beliefs. He stands up for his beliefs…

from ‘Princeps Senatus’, meaning ‘First among equals’, which gave an individual the privilege of being the first to speak in the Senate and being the first name on the roster. This title was used officially by Augustus (then Octavian) because it had no royal connotations. In actuality, Augustus had auctoritas (‘authority’) far greater than that of merely a Princeps. He was an Emperor, but he did not explicitly say so, for his predecessor Julius Caesar had done similarly and as a consequence was…