So I've decided that I'm going to read this book again. I felt like maybe I passed over something. My book is a collectors edition so it has some Q & A in the back from the author. When I read through that I realized I completely missed some of the things he foreshadowed.
[SPOILER ALERT]
Lets start with the fact that when they're on the airplane Hazel and Augustus try to watch a movie "together" by pressing play on their individual TVs at the same time. Augustus' movie always starts first. (I'll revisit why its foreshadowing later.)
While they're in Amsterdam, they're there to visit their idol author(see what I did there?), Peter Van Houten. Van Houten turns out to be the biggest douchey douchbag. Now those aren't my words, it's exactly how Hazel describes him after her encounter with him. Willem Dafoe is playing him in the movie, although I didn't picture Van Houten that way...I think he is a good actor for the role.
Chapter 21 is where I was literally brought to tears. Augustus died. He cancer came back through his whole body. Even though he was really sick, up until he died I thought maybe Hazel would die first. Here is where we get to the foreshadowing. His movie started before Hazels and that means his "movie" would also end before hers. On both flights they watched movies together, they wouldn't sync up his would start before his.
He had Hazel and his best friends write eulogies for him while he was alive because he wanted to hear them himself.
I think that's all I'm going to share about the book... I don't want to give away everything. ;)
[SPOILER ALERT]
Lets start with the fact that when they're on the airplane Hazel and Augustus try to watch a movie "together" by pressing play on their individual TVs at the same time. Augustus' movie always starts first. (I'll revisit why its foreshadowing later.)
While they're in Amsterdam, they're there to visit their idol author(see what I did there?), Peter Van Houten. Van Houten turns out to be the biggest douchey douchbag. Now those aren't my words, it's exactly how Hazel describes him after her encounter with him. Willem Dafoe is playing him in the movie, although I didn't picture Van Houten that way...I think he is a good actor for the role.
Chapter 21 is where I was literally brought to tears. Augustus died. He cancer came back through his whole body. Even though he was really sick, up until he died I thought maybe Hazel would die first. Here is where we get to the foreshadowing. His movie started before Hazels and that means his "movie" would also end before hers. On both flights they watched movies together, they wouldn't sync up his would start before his.
He had Hazel and his best friends write eulogies for him while he was alive because he wanted to hear them himself.
I think that's all I'm going to share about the book... I don't want to give away everything. ;)
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