These, apart from the C word, are what The Fault In Our Stars is about. Does it signal what will later happen in the book? The scenes with the author of this book within a book remind you that sometimes life sucks, and it can continue to suck even when it’s already reached the lowest of lows. It forms a big part of Green’s book and contains a great many concepts and metaphors. There is the sadness – of course there is, you may say, but the point here is that because it’s balanced by the humour and normality, it is all the more powerful.Ī special mention must be made of the novel Hazel loves, that she passes on to Augustus. You are not meant to pity, but you are of course meant to feel. There is, as you may expect, a lot of humour. There are semi-subtextual ideas, such as Hazel’s naming transition, changing what she calls her boyfriend, and there is the controversial scene in Anne Frank’s house in which the teenagers cause a stir. Augustus disgusts Hazel when he takes a cigarette from his pocket, but he explains the theory behind his action, that something that kills, stripped of the power to kill by his failure to light it, is not a threat. A particularly prominent concept throughout is of cigarettes and the potential to kill. They are simply two fictional people, but they represent a great many more, real, people. The sheer life implied by the way the characters act just goes to emphasise how awful it is that we have these diseases that kill. They use ‘big’ words, often to excess, and there are so many subjects covered as metaphors and evidence for otherwise simple conversations, it’s unlikely you will know all of them. These are teens of a particular personality. Putting that aside, however, the characters are fantastic. This is perhaps the only possible issue – where everything is so fresh and specific the book may put readers off by it’s technical nature. To be sure it’s a particular type of writing (this reviewer took a good few pages to get used to it even though she liked it), and it may not appeal to everyone. There has been no attempt to make the book beautiful – this is no literary feat and frankly it would suffer if it was. Green writes teenagers very well and the dialogue seems true to life. The book moves far away from the idea of pity, allowing you to see reality. Green’s writing is very unique and rather excellent, no matter that he has a few novels already under his belt. The Fault In Our Stars is every bit as good as you’ve heard. He’s lost a leg but is in remission, and although things will always be difficult, the two teens begin to fall in love.
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At the support group her mother insists she goes to she meets Augustus, someone who matches her in wit and thought. She’s not likely to ever be in remission but she’s able to live a fuller life than she had with illness so far.