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What happens to Hazel Grace after Augustus Waters dies what she do next
Rob Though everyone is correct, there is no real next, the book does contain a few clear indicators of the future. First of all, Hazel will die. Well, eve…moreThough everyone is correct, there is no real next, the book does contain a few clear indicators of the future. First of all, Hazel will die. Well, everybody will eventually die, but Hazel is going to die before her parents, possibly in a few years, possibly later, but still young. Her cancer is inoperable. She is a grenade. Etc. It's what happens.

Second of all, her parents will be ok. Hazel spends a huge part of the novel trying to figure out if the parents in An Imperial Affliction are going to be ok, because she worries so much about What Happens Next to Them in her own lived narrative. She goes to the Anne Frank museum, and learns that Anne Frank's own father went on to do great things in her memory. She meets Van Houten, who turned out to be a terrible person, but still created great things after his daughter died, and more importantly *chose* to be such a terrible person, and continues to choose to be awful, though he starts to turn, maybe, at the novel's end, thanks to the efforts of Augustus. And then she confronts her own parents about the issue, and they tell her point blank, we will never be the same, but we will be ok, we have things going on, we are learning things and taken classes and we have plans, and like Mr. Frank we are going to help people in memory of you. (less)
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