Augustus: The Fault In Our Stars

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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 to lose his eyesight as a result of the cancer. Another minor character is Hazel’s mother. She is a hoovering mom who worries about her one and only child. She jumps up every time Hazel yells or anything. The last minor character is Hazel’s dad, he is

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