After a week the two had discussed about The Imperial Affliction, Augustus secretly contacted the fellow who wrote the book, Peter Van Houten to ask questions about the ending of the book. However, he only managed to track down his assistant, Lidewij. Hazel sent an e-mail to him asking question about the book. Peter replied to her saying that he could only share what happens after the book if she came to see him personally, in Amsterdam. 

            Shortly after Augustus invited Hazel for a picnic that he planned where he reveals a charitable foundation that grants wishes of kids with cancer has agreed to grant his: to meet Peter Van Houten in Amsterdam with Hazel Grace. She was thrilled. 

            In the midst of struggling to plan her trip to Amsterdam, Hazel suffers a serious episode in which her lungs fill with fluid and she goes to the ICU. She left after a few days. He delivers Hazel another letter from Van Houten, this one more personal and more cryptic than the last. After reading the letter, Hazel is more determined than ever to go to Amsterdam. There is a problem though: Her parents and her team of doctors don’t think Hazel is strong enough to travel. The situation seems hopeless until one of the physicians most familiar with her case, Dr. Maria, convinces Hazel’s parents that Hazel must travel because she needs to live her life.

            Hazel, Augustus, and Hazel’s mother flew to Amsterdam to live Hazel’s dream and grant Gus’s wish. They finally met Peter Van Houten only to realize that he was a mean-spirited drunk who claims he cannot answer any of Hazel’s questions. In the end, both of them left Peter’s place in disappointment and accompanied by Lediwij. She brought them to tour around Anne Frank’s house where they shared their first kiss there. The following day, Augustus confesses that while Hazel was in the ICU, he had a body scan which revealed his cancer has returned and spread everywhere. When they returned to Indianapolis, Gus’s condition was getting worse each day. He becomes vulnerable and scared. In his final days Augustus arranges a prefuneral for himself, and Isaac and Hazel give eulogies. 

            Augustus Water died eight days alter in the ICU. During his funeral, Peter came, and Hazel was astonished by it. He came for last respect and to give Hazel a letter that was written by Augustus during his final moments. Hazel cried in her car when she read the letter. She missed him a lot—it broke her. 

The Fault in Our Stars is a romantic fiction-based novel for young adults. The novel features Hazel Grace Lancaster, 16-year-old girl who is diagnosed with terminal Thyroid Cancer. Hazel then met Augustus at a support group that she was forced to attend by her doctor and her parents. Augustus on the other hand, has an Osteosarcoma and in the beginning of the novel he was in a remission. 

            It is a love story that took Hazel Grace to Amsterdam from Indianapolis with her dying-boyfriend Augustus Waters that used his genie-wish for the trip to Amsterdam to meet her favourite author from The Imperial Affliction by Peter Van Houten. 

Indianapolis. The Fault in Our Stars took place in a small town called Indianapolis. However, it is not just a typical Indianapolis where kids go to school and adults go to work, it is an Indianapolis of the sick. The book took place in a hometown where Hazel and her friends would frequently go to places where sick people goes to: the hospital, support group, church, and sometimes other sick friends’ house. The setting is very indoor and stifling because Hazel spent most of her times inside the house, reading the same books and watching the same tv show over and over again as she felt like she was dying and there was no point for her to wander around the town of happy people with a sick-dying-girl—herself. She isolated herself a lot by staying indoor. She even mentioned in the book that she was aware she felt confined in the town: “It was a cloudy day, typical Indiana: the kind of weather that boxes you in.” Even after she met Augustus, they still spent most of the times doing indoor activities like playing board games, reading books and helping a friend out by smashing Gus’s trophies in Gus’s basement bedroom. 

            Amsterdam. A city of freedom. There are visions of cobblestone streets, canals, bicycles, quaint coffee shops, artists, and of course, romance when the name pops out in our mind. This setting is entirely dissimilar from Indianapolis where everything is confined for Hazel and Augustus. There are no regular check-ups, board games and sitting in the “heart of Jesus” as in the support group that took place in the church’s basement. It was totally a different life for them in Amsterdam. The lovebirds were catapulted into a world where everything was possible for them: a romantic dinner date, sight-seeing Amsterdam and climbing stairs of Anne Frank’s house. Hazel was happily roaming the city of Freedom on her mother’s permission to wander around with Augustus and enjoy their own time there in Amsterdam. 

The insensitivity of the universe. The book had a repeating refrain that the world is not a wish-granting factory. By means, the things we want do not always come true and that fantasies are hugely different from reality, an illusion that is delusional. There were numerous examples in the story. For example, Isaac’s girlfriend Monica, who broke up with him because she could not barre with the fact that her boyfriend has to go blind. Despite of that, Isaac stood with himself, waiting and hoping that she would come back to him. He never received a single word from her after the break up. Other than that, Augustus realized that he will never get to show some extraordinary feat of heroism due to the cancer that spread all over his body after being few years cancer-free. As much as it broke him, hew wasn’t too sick to know he was refrained from a lot of things and that no matter how hopeful it is, the world is not a wish-granting factory. Also, Hazel had to fathom the fact that her lungs could never heal, and she was only living on borrowed time.