After Meeting Augustus Waters Loving
From the statement above, the writer analyzes that Augustus Waters get the motivation from his parents. He also grew up in the family who has the highest
spirit to life, so that he accustomed to his life that full of joy and spirit. Thus, his optimistic personality mentioned previously is valid because Augustus Waters got
the positive reinforcement from his parents. Not only from his family, Augustus Waters also got extrinsic motivation
from Hazel Grace and also his dream. Augustus Waters love Hazel so much, he wants to be with her in the end of his life.
“And I am in love with you. I’ll fight it. I’ll fight it for you. Don’t you worry about me, Hazel Gra
ce? I’m okay. I’ll find a way to hang around and annoy you for a long time.” 2012: 216.
From the statement above, show that Augustus Waters really love Hazel. He is brave to fight his love in any conditions. Because of the existence of Hazel Grace
that makes Augustus Waters living on from his illness, he can maintain his optimism.
His dream is also Hazel Grace’s dream. Augustus Waters wants to reach his dream for Hazel Grace. He feels happy if he can make Hazel feels happy too.
Everything that he does is for Hazel who makes him feel alive. “Now, I’m not going to give you my wish or anything. But I also have an
interest in meeting Peter Van Houten, and it wouldn’t make sense to meet him without the girl who introduced me to his book.”
“So I talked to the Genies, and they are in total agreement. They said Amsterdam is lovely in the beginning of May. They proposed leaving
May third and returning May seventh.” “Sure I do,” he said. “I found my wish.” 5.89-90
From the statement above shows that Augustus Waters is a caring person, he cherish life for Hazel Grace because he feels alive doing that.
ii. To Make Hazel Happy
As the writer analyzed before, Augustus is a caring and optimistic person, he has a high motivation in himself to do his activities even though he has
cancer. He still cherishes his life and tries to do everything in order to make such as a mark in his life. For example, he has a high motivation to make his girlfriend,
Hazel, to feel comfortable and happy because he loves her so much. It can be seen through the statement of Augustus that said:
“And I am in love with you. I’ll fight it. I’ll fight it for you. Don’t you worry about me, Hazel Grace? I’m okay. I’ll find a way to hang around
and annoy you for a long time.” 2012: 216.
It shows that Augustus’ source of motivation is Hazel. He wants to fight it all because of her. He also does not care with his illness. He just thinks about Hazel
and always wants to be with her, because he is absolutely in love with her. It can be
related to Maslow’s hierarchy of needs, which is the idea of lovebelonging. The idea of lovebelonging can be seen through Augustus Waters who wants to
maintain his relationship with Hazel Grace in every condition. Even though he is sick and realize that he also does not have longer time to be with Hazel, but he
still uses the time as much as he can do it. This motivation is shows that Augustus Waters is a caring person. He motivates himself to make Hazel happy by fulfill
the needs of love and belonging mentioned by Maslow.
iii. To Share an Affection with Hazel
The idea of esteem in Maslow’s hierarchy of needs means that the characters need affection for making their life as worthy as possible. In the story,
Augustus Waters needs Hazel’s love and affection, so that her affection can boost
Augustus’s self-esteem that can maintain his optimism to always cherish his life. “She is funny without ever being mean. I love her. I am so lucky to love
her, Van Houten. You don’t get to choose if you get hurt in this world,
old man, but you do have some say in who hurts you. I like my choices. I hope she likes her.
” 2012: 313. Through his letter to Peter Van Houten, Augustus reveals his
straightforward personality by showing how lucky he is to have Hazel Grace as part of his life journey before his death. It means that Augustus Waters is
motivated to cherish his life due to the affection and love that he has shared throughout his life. Thus, the statement above can be included as the idea of
esteem in Maslow’s hierarchy of needs and related to his characteristics of being straightforward. Through sharing his affection to Hazel, it proves that he is
straightforward in deciding his own way to cherish life, in this case by sharing his affection with Hazel.
iv. To Fulfill his Wish
Augustus is an optimistic person and also he has highest spirit to live his life even though he was sick. As an optimistic person, he also has a wish. Actually
his wish is inspired from Hazel Grace’s wish in which he also wants to meet the
author of the book An Imperial Affliction named Peter van Houten. Augustus wants to go to there with Hazel Grace who introduced him about the book.
Because of wanting to fulfill Hazel Grace’s wish, he has a spirit and also never
gives up to keep his wish until it comes true. It means that Augustus Waters has the motivation because of his love for Hazel who wants the same dream as
Augustus meeting with Peter Van Houten. Thus, Hazel Grace’s wish is the
external influence that motivates Augustus. It is including in the need to achieve by Ruch. It can be proven from the statement of Augustus Waters.
“But then again, maybe it will come along: maybe you’ll realize that your one true wish is to visit the brilliant Peter van Houten in his
Amsterdamian exile, and you will be glad indeed to have saved your
wish.” 2012: 89. “But I didn’t save my wish,” I said. “Ah,” he said. And then, after what
felt like a practiced pause, he added, “But I saved mine.” 2012: 89. “Now, I’m not going to give you my wish or anything. But I also have an
interest in meeting Peter Van Houten, and it wouldn’t make sense to meet him without the girl who introduced me to his book.”
“It definitely wouldn’t,” I said. “So I talked to the Genies, and they are in total agreement. They said
Amsterdam is lovely in the beginning of May. They proposed leaving May third and returning May seventh.”
“Augustus, really?” “Augustus,” I said. “Really. You don’t have to do this.”
“Sure I do,” he said. “I found my wish.” 2012: 89-90. “It’s kids’ stuff, but I always thought my obituary would be in all the
newspapers, that I’d have a story worth telling. I always had this secret suspicion that I was special” 2012: 240.
From the statement above, it shows that he wants to recognize that he will be in an
obituary in all newspapers. The reason why he wants to be included in an obituary is because he feels like it is an achievement for a person who just died recently
because he or she is remembered and honored by people who read the newspaper. Therefore, the need to achieve is one of the motivations of Augustus Waters to
cherish his life by making his life worth to be remembered, by helping others, caring to others, so the others would also do the same. The need to achieve is also
the reason why he wants to leave a mark to the people who are closely related to PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI