
Hazel falls in love for the first time with Augustus Waters. But I wanted to use the language of that ceremony to connect them to each other, to give her the chance to say the words she’ll probably never get to say in a church while wearing a dress, and to acknowledge that their love was real and important and, in its way, lasting. Hazel Grace Lancaster Hazel is a sixteen year old girl who has cancer since she was thirteen. You can’t-AND SHOULDN’T-marry a dead person.

(This can obviously be overread: They aren’t really married. there is a permanence to the present tense.

She is age sixteen, is an only child and is the daughter to Mr. she’s realizing that she can still love Augustus and that there is still value in that love, and 2. But Hazel herself opens the book with that fact, so we figured we should, too. Hazel Grace Lancaster was born on September 29th 1996. So the dual significant to “I do,” to me is 1. As long as either person is still alive, that relationship survives. More importantly but in the same vein, Hazel has to realize that her mom was wrong when she said, “I won’t be a mother anymore.” The truth is, after Hazel dies (assuming she dies), her mom will still be her mom, just as my grandmother is still my grandmother even though she has died. Bab圜enter parents love the name Hazel, too. Hazel broke into the top 100 baby girl names on the Social Security Administrations list in 2015, and was in the top 50 by 2020. Both of these pop culture events very likely played a role in Hazels gain in popularity. She wasn’t wrong about being a grenade (although we’re all grenades), but she was wrong about how that should shape her behavior. It tells the story of Hazel Grace Lancaster, a teenager with thyroid cancer. The central thing that Hazel has to realize at the end of the book is that she has been wrong all along about how she imagines her relationships with people she loves.
