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Augustus Waters's The Fault In Our Stars
The book, The Fault in our Stars, has many dynamic characters which made the book very interesting. “I’m on a roller coaster that only goes up my friend,” (11). In other words, Augustus Waters lives his life to the fullest. It demonstrates how he’s not going to let thing bring him down and he’s always going to reach for something higher. The characters were also really close. For example, Hazel explains, “The only person I really wanted to talk about Augustus Waters's death was Augustus Waters,” (262). The authors point is that when people have a best friend or a close friend sometimes people only want to talk to them, but what happens when they’re not there. She was upset that when he’s the only person she wanted to talk to, he wasn’t there

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