In the book, Hazel Grace portrays herself as a grenade. A grenade waiting to explode and hurt everyone around her. The reader finds this out in a dinner scene with Hazel’s parents when she says, “I’m like a grenade, mom. I’m a grenade and at some point I’m going to blow up and I would like to minimize the casualties, okay?” (99). This explains why she pushes Augustus away at the beginning- she doesn’t want to hurt him, She was saying that she is going to die and she wants to stay away from people so they don’t end up being hurt. However, just before telling her parents she was a grenade, she was texting Augustus. He explained that he was playing a video game and he didn’t have enough time to remove a grenade from a school building, so he jumped on top of the grenade to save the all the children’s lives. His team members were angry and frustrated because he died, but he saved all the children’s lives. At the end of the book, Augustus passes away; however, Hazel does not. She was the grenade, and he took the blow of her grenade. Hazel thinks her pin has been pulled and it is only a matter of time before she explodes. This is a metaphor for when she gets really sick and dies. Other people will feel intense stress and get hurt. Hazel wants to hide away to minimize the damage she will cause. In the beginning, Hazel doesn’t want to get close to Augustus, because she was afraid he is going to be shattered when she dies. But towards the ending, hazel finds out it doesn’t matter if you die in the middle of a relationship, it’s about the moments you spend together.

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• 1.Plateau: an area of relatively level high ground.
• ex: I used to travel the plateau before.
• 2.Ghoulishly: resembling or characteristic of a ghoul.
• ex: a ghoulish mask.
• 3.Acutely: intensely
• ex: the whole situation was acutely embarrassing.
• 4.Composure: the state or feeling of being calm and in control of oneself.
• ex: she was struggling to regain her composure.
• 5.Clarion: a shrill narrow-tubed war trumpet.
• ex: an organ stop with a quality resembling that of a clarion.
• 6.Eradication: the complete destruction of something.
• ex: the eradication of poverty.
• 7.Plush: a rich fabric of silk, cotton, wool, or a combination of these, with a long, soft nap.
• ex: deep-buttoned plush upholstery.
• 8.
• 9.Whims: a sudden desire or change of mind, especially one that is unusual or unexplained.
• ex: she bought it on a whim.
• 10.Precocious:  having developed certain abilities or proclivities at an earlier age than usual.
• ex: he was a precocious, solitary boy.
• 11.Nihilism: the rejection of all religious and moral principles, in the belief that life is meaningless.
• 12.Beatified: the rejection of all religious and moral principles, in the belief that life is meaningless.
• ex: he beatified my friend.
• 13.Hospice: a home providing care for the sick or terminally ill.
• ex: hospice workers.
• 14.Lectern: a tall stand with a sloping top to hold a book or notes, from which someone, typically a preacher or lecturer, can read while standing up.
• ex: A judge stands in the lectern.
• 15.Stock: the goods or merchandise kept on the premises of a business or warehouse and available for sale or distribution.
• ex: the store has a very low turnover of stock.
• 16.Revile: criticize in an abusive or angrily insulting manner.
• ex: he was now reviled by the party that he had helped to lead.
• 17.Unconscionable: not right or reasonable.
• ex: the unconscionable conduct of his son.
• 18.Charismatic: exercising a compelling charm which inspires devotion in others.
• ex: a charismatic leader.
• 19.Leveraging: use borrowed capital for (an investment), expecting the profits made to be greater than the interest payable.
• ex: a leveraged takeover bid.
• 20.Monolith: a large single upright block of stone, especially one shaped into or serving as a pillar or monument.
• ex: the 72-story monolith overlooking the waterfront.
• 21.Sated: satisfy a desire or an appetite to the full.
• ex: sate your appetite at the resort’s restaurant.
• 22.Indefatigable: of a person or their efforts persisting tirelessly.
• ex: an indefatigable defender of human rights.
• 23.Teeming: be full of or swarming with.
• ex: every garden is teeming with wildlife.
• 24.Mercenary: of a person or their behaviour primarily concerned with making money at the expense of ethics.
• ex: she’s nothing but a mercenary little gold digger.
• 25.Intoxicated: alcoholic drink or a drug cause someone to lose control of their faculties or behaviour.
• ex: My father intoxicated when he’s driving.
• 26.Eulogy: a speech or piece of writing that praises someone or something highly, typically someone who has just died.
• ex: his good friend delivered a brief eulogy.
• 27. Bequeathing: leave a personal estate or one’s body to a person or other beneficiary by a will.
• ex: he bequeathed his art collection to the town.
• 28.Coup: a sudden, violent, and illegal seizure of power from a government.
• ex: he was overthrown in an army coup.
• 29.Incessant: something regarded as unpleasant continuing without pause or interruption.
• ex: the incessant beat of the music.
• 30.Haranguing: lecture someone at length in an aggressive and critical manner.
• ex: the kind of guy who harangued total strangers about PCB levels in whitefish.

Augustus and Isaac play a video game in which the characters are controlled by voice command. Isaac says that Augustus is tough to play with because he is completely suicidal when it comes to saving civilians in the game. As they play, Isaac’s little brother comes in and imitates Isaac’s voice, commanding his character to kill himself in the game. Isaac tells his brother he is going to kick his ass, so his brother runs off laughing. In the game, they come across a prisoner begging for his life. Isaac says that this is where Augustus always goes wrong by insisting on saving the prisoner. Isaac asks if Hazel wants to hook up with Augustus. She says its complicated, to which Isaac replies he understands that she does not want to “Monica” Augustus by leaving him. Hazel tells Isaac that what he did to Monica by going blind was not nice. Isaac defends himself by saying it wasn’t his fault, but Hazel tells him it was not his fault, but it still wasn’t nice. The fact that Isaac was blind made him and Monica break up. He was sad for a long time and he could hardly be happy right away. Hazel tried to advise him by saying it was not his fault but it was still not good. This even made him and Monica unable to go back to how they were before, hoping he can be optimistic and happy again.

Hazel says she feels like she lost her co-rememberer, which means she lost her memories too. In my life, my best friend is a person who I share a lot of memories with. I absolute life the best life when I play with her. She likes a part of my family, I can share anything I want with her, we never have a conflict before. Sometimes, I think that how come she can understand me so much. Actually, I am the kind of person quite hard to play with because I am quite easy to get upset with someone, but I am also the person who can sympathetic another person very thoughtful. I can give advice, or help to solve the problems carefully. She like thoughtful myself, she doesn’t give advice for me when I did something wrong. when I do something wrong, she just say I did it wrong, I have to fix it. I think that is a person I can share anything in my life. I think a real friend is a person never stand up for you when you do something wrong, but always give you a hand when you need, protect you as much as possible. I am so proud of myself when I have her in my life, although I have not met her for a long time when I come to Canada, but our relationship never changes.

• 1.Inherently (adj): a quality that is inherent in something is a natural part of it and cannot be separated from it .
  ex: I’m afraid the problems you mention are inherent in the system.
• 2. Rhetorical: using speech or writing in special ways in order to persuade people or to produce an impressive effect.
  ex: a speech full of rhetorical phrases.
• 3.Missive: a letter – often used humorously
  ex: An anonymous missive had been pushed under her door.
• 4.Deferentially: polite behaviour that shows that you respect someone and are therefore willing to accept their opinions or judgment.
  ex:  They were annoyed that he did not show enough respect and deference to him.
• 5.Paradox: a situation that seems strange because it involves two ideas or qualities that are very different.
  ex: It’s a paradox that in such a rich country there can be so much poverty.
• 6.Putrid: dead animals, plants etc that are putrid are decaying and smell very bad.
  ex: the putrid smells from the slaughterhouses.
• 7.Impotent:  unable to take effective action because you do not have enough power, strength, or control.
  ex: Emergency services seem impotent in the face of such a disaster.
• 8.Profusely: produced or existing in large quantities.
  ex: The wound was bleeding profusely.
• 9.Moored: a wild open area of high land, covered with rough grass or low bushes and heather, that is not farmed because the soil is not good enough.
  ex: They went grouse shooting up on the moors.
• 10.Encroached : to gradually take more of someone’s time, possessions, rights etc than you should.
  ex: Bureaucratic power has encroached upon the freedom of the individual.
• 11.Folly: a very stupid thing to do, especially one that is likely to have serious results.
  ex: Somerville bitterly regretted his folly at becoming involved.
• 12.Seduced:  to persuade someone to have sex with you, especially in a way that is attractive and not too direct.
  ex: The professor was sacked for seducing female students.
• 13.Ecstatic: feeling extremely happy and excited.
  ex: an ecstatic welcome from the thousands who lined the streets
• 14.Recounted: to tell someone a story or describe a series of events.
  ex: Allan recounted how he and I had met.
• 15.Contemplate: to think about something that you might do in the future.
  ex: He had even contemplated suicide.
• 16.Sinewy: a sinewy person has a thin body and strong muscles.
  ex: a big man with long, sinewy arms.
• 17.Consumption:  the amount of energy, oil, electricity etc that is used.
  ex: dramatic rises in fuel consumption.
• 18.Conspicuously: very easy to notice.
  ex: The notice must be displayed in a conspicuous place.
• 19.Improbably: not likely to happen or to be true.
  ex: a film with an improbable plot.
• 20.Injustice: a situation in which people are treated very unfairly and not given their rights.
  ex: the injustice of slavery.
• 21.Legitimacy:  fair or reasonable.
  ex: Opponents have questioned the legitimacy of the ruling.
• 22.Sterile: a person or animal that is sterile cannot produce babies.
  ex: Radiotherapy has left her permanently sterile.
• 23. Memoir: a short piece of writing about a person or place that you knew well, or an event that you experienced.
  ex: In the memoirs he recollected his responds as follows: Three solutions are conceivable.
• 24.Ruse: a clever trick used to deceive someone.
  ex: she tried to think of a ruse to get Paul out of the house.
• 25.Obituary: an article n a newspaper about the life of someone who has just died.
  ex: The obituary in the New York Times had the sweep of history.
• 26.Singularity: an extremely small point in space that contains an extremely large amount of material and which does not obey the usual laws of nature.
  ex:  He is just trying to assert his singularity as a write.
• 27.Waiver: an official written statement saying that a right, legal process.
  ex: Washington State gave its Schools for the 21st Century waivers to any rules that stood in their way.
• 28.Irrevocable: an irrevocable decision, action.
  ex: Think about the situation carefully before you take an irrevocable step.
• 29.Ambition: a strong desire to achieve something.
  ex: She had always had an ambition to be a pilot.
• 30.Commenced: to begin or to start something
  ex: Work will commence on the new building immediately.

1.postmortem
2.Vernacular
3.premonition
4.embedded
5.Aspiring
6.edema
7.letterhead
8.gait
9.deadpan
10.vacuous
11.litany
12.perennially
13.promiscuity
14.relapsed
15.unprecedented
16.enamored
17.sovereignty
18.unencumbered
19.exclusivity
20.sentiments
21.martyrs
22.liberated
23.corporate
24.insidious
25.disembarked
26.disengagement
27.lacquered
28.paragon
29.picturesque
30.anomaly

Augustus is a famous protagonist in the novel by writer John, he is quite interesting and special, let’s find out about him. First of all, Augustus is just a boy 17 years old but his characterisation is quite special. As a result, he is laid back and cool, but he does emphasize his ego as he discusses his fear of oblivion and his desperate need to be remembered as a hero in the cancer support group. Though he is still supportive of his best friend Issac. Later, after he meets Hazel Grace Lancaster we see Augustus turn into a gentleman. Furthermore, his metaphor about the cigarette was appeared thought the story. For example, according to John Greens’s book,” The Fault in Our Stars”,” It’s a metaphor see, you put the killing thing right between your teeth, but you don’t give it the power to do its killing.” If you were to ask anyone within the novel what they remembered most about the character Augustus Waters there would be one common answer, his metaphor about the cigarette. During the novel we see Augustus use the metaphor of a cigarette to take control over his life, because he lives with a side effect of cancer, dying and the fear of oblivion, so he is determined to remain in control no matter the situation. It has been proven fact that cigarettes will kill you. By putting the cigarette in his mouth but not lighting it, he can satisfy his despondent need for control. From this we can see several characteristics of Augustus as his boldness, determination, drive, and creativity. He proves boldness because he proceeds to defy the odds in his unique way. Instead of letting the cancer consume him, he is controlling the cancer indirectly. Finally, as Augustus speaks at Isaac’s support group he tells stories of his fear of oblivion. for example, he has said with the Supporting group that “I fear it like the proverbial blind man who’s afraid of the dark.” The fear of oblivion seems to despair him but he is still optimistic and lives happily with his loved ones. In conclusion, Augustus is a character that bring for the reader a lot of feelings as sympathetic and sad. However, Augustus is a strong and intelligent person. Although he knows he will not live long and the fear of one day he is forgotten, these things is always existed in his mind, but he strongly confronted it when he met Hazel. The characterisation of Augustus is so interested and special, this is one of the most things that attracts the reader.