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The Fault in Our Stars

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The Fault in Our Stars	comment	The Fault in Our Stars is the fourth solo novel by author John Green, released on January 10th, 2012. The book focuses on a girl named Hazel Grace Lancaster, who is a teenage recluse; her best friends are her parents, and her preferred hobby is rereading her favorite book, An Imperial Affliction, over and over.One night at Support Group (her parents' idea, not hers), she meets the gorgeous and philosophical Augustus Waters, who piques her curiosity and gets her thinking again about life, adventure...and love.There's only one snag in this budding romance: Hazel and Augustus met at a cancer support group. Hazel has thyroid cancer and terminal lung tumors, biding their time against perilous drugs, and Augustus is in remission after bone cancer took his leg.Before TFIOS was released, it reached #1 on the Amazon and Barnes & Noble bestseller lists in June 2011 shortly after its title was announced. Barnes & Noble accidentally released more than a thousand copies prematurely; however, the fans who got the copies vowed not to spoil the book for those who hadn't.A blog where Green answers questions about the book was active from 2012 to 2014 and is still available here for anyone who has finished reading the book, and only for people who have finished the book. (It is no longer password-protected, although one still runs a high risk of major spoilers.)A film adaptation, starring Shailene Woodley as Hazel and Ansel Elgort as Augustus, was released in June 2014. There's also what could be considered a companion book, This Star Won't Go Out (released in January 2014), which is the autobiography of Esther Grace Earl, a young girl with terminal cancer similar to Hazel's. Esther and Green were friends, and she was the inspiration for â€” though not the direct basis of â€” Hazel.
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The Fault in Our Stars / int_127fc252	type	Creator Cameo
The Fault in Our Stars / int_127fc252	comment	Creator Cameo: John Green was supposed to play the father (it was a mother in the book) whose child wanted to try on Hazel's cannula, but the scene was cut from the film adaptation.
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The Fault in Our Stars / int_13646b1b	type	My Friends... and Zoidberg
The Fault in Our Stars / int_13646b1b	comment	My Friends... and Zoidberg: Mr. Lancaster's airport sign reads "MY BEAUTIFUL FAMILY (AND GUS)".
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The Fault in Our Stars / int_1439161f	type	Heroic BSoD
The Fault in Our Stars / int_1439161f	comment	Heroic BSoD: Hazel has a very understandable one after Gus dies, unable to accept that he's truly gone. By the end of the book, after reading his eulogy for her, she seems to be improving. And then, of course, poor Isaac had one after going blind and being dumped by Monica. Gus invites him to destroy all his basketball trophies to help.
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The Fault in Our Stars / int_1460b100	type	Death Is a Sad Thing
The Fault in Our Stars / int_1460b100	comment	Hazel has a very understandable one after Gus dies, unable to accept that he's truly gone. By the end of the book, after reading his eulogy for her, she seems to be improving.
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The Fault in Our Stars / int_1d029135	type	Fictional Document
The Fault in Our Stars / int_1d029135	comment	Fictional Document: The book features An Imperial Affliction as well as The Price of Dawn and the following sequels. The epigraph is from An Imperial Affliction, as a reference to The Great Gatsby, whose epigraph is also from another fictional book.
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The Fault in Our Stars / int_1e0c10c5	type	Laugh of Love
The Fault in Our Stars / int_1e0c10c5	comment	Laugh of Love: Hazel and Augustus tend to do this quite frequently around each other, at least until Augustus' condition worsens, eventually resulting in his death.
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The Fault in Our Stars / int_1e7c47ab	type	Stealth Pun
The Fault in Our Stars / int_1e7c47ab	comment	Stealth Pun: The "blinding" of Isaac. Unintended, according to John Green.
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The Fault in Our Stars / int_1ec3eb0a	type	Take Our Word for It
The Fault in Our Stars / int_1ec3eb0a	comment	Take Our Word for It: Hazel and Augustus agree that "An Imperial Affliction" is the one book that describes what it's really like to have cancer, therefore the book means a lot to them. But we, the readers, only get a dim idea of the plot, a few characters, and the line "Pain demands to be felt." Oh, it's also a Door Stopper.
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The Fault in Our Stars / int_1f137e42	type	Artificial Limbs
The Fault in Our Stars / int_1f137e42	comment	Artificial Limbs: Augustus Waters has a prosthetic leg due to his osteosarcoma.
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The Fault in Our Stars / int_20989d05	type	Parents as People
The Fault in Our Stars / int_20989d05	comment	Parents as People: Hazel's parents are shown to be very loving and supportive of her but also have their obvious frustrations with the burden her illness has put on their personal lives.
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The Fault in Our Stars / int_222dc873	type	Black Comedy
The Fault in Our Stars / int_222dc873	comment	In some Black Comedy, Isaac lampshades this after he becomes blind by jokingly saying, "come over here so I can examine your face with my hands and see deeper into your soul than a sighted person ever could."
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The Fault in Our Stars / int_2310dacb	type	Dead Man Writing
The Fault in Our Stars / int_2310dacb	comment	Dead Man Writing: Hazel and Lidewij track down Augustus' last letter to Van Houten, which turns out not to be the sequel to An Imperial Affliction but his eulogy for Hazel.
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The Fault in Our Stars / int_2482df9c	comment	Companion Cube: Hazel named her oxygen tank "Philip," and treats "him" like an annoying pet.
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The Fault in Our Stars / int_26eb6287	type	Funny Background Event
The Fault in Our Stars / int_26eb6287	comment	Funny Background Event: Isaac beating the crap out of Gus' trophies and egging Monica's car, both of which happen during Gus and Hazel's heart-to-hearts.
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The Fault in Our Stars / int_27690f66	type	Literary Allusion Title
The Fault in Our Stars / int_27690f66	comment	Literary Allusion Title: The title refers to a line from William Shakespeare's Julius Caesar: "The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves, that we are underlings." In-universe, An Imperial Affliction is named for a phrase in the Emily Dickinson poem "There's a certain slant of light".
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The Fault in Our Stars / int_2a44899	type	Plot Armor
The Fault in Our Stars / int_2a44899	comment	The books based on Gus's favorite video game, The Price of Dawn. Count how many times "Max Mayhem" (and his Plot Armor) is brought up after Hazel reads them.
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The Fault in Our Stars / int_2e76947a	type	The Topic of Cancer
The Fault in Our Stars / int_2e76947a	comment	The Topic of Cancer: Inverted: Both of the main protagonists (and half of the supporting cast) have cancer. They all speak of their condition with a blase-ness that only terminal cancer patients can muster. And people who try to sentimentalize or go emotionally overboard over the condition are heartily mocked.
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The Fault in Our Stars / int_3126c34a	type	Insufferable Genius
The Fault in Our Stars / int_3126c34a	comment	Insufferable Genius: Peter Van Houten is a brilliant but deeply unpleasant man who deliberately speaks in complex philosophical dilemmas and advanced math problems for the sole purpose of annoying people. Hazel compares him to a "pretentious 11-year-old boy."
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The Fault in Our Stars / int_33d5b7f2	type	Adapted Out
The Fault in Our Stars / int_33d5b7f2	comment	Adapted Out: Minor characters like Kaitlyn, Lydia, and Gus' sisters are not present in the film. Van Houten gives Augustus' eulogy to Hazel personally, while Isaac fills the slightly comedic relief role. Some other scenes are also cut to improve the flow (and shorten the length) of the film. John Green's cameo as the parent of Jackie, the little girl who wanted to try on Hazel's cannula, was also cut.
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The Fault in Our Stars / int_360aa1f	type	Fan Disillusionment
The Fault in Our Stars / int_360aa1f	comment	Fan Disillusionment: After Hazel and Gus go to Amsterdam to meet Peter van Houten and he treats them poorly and says awful things. Afterwards, though Gus promises Hazel a sequel/epilogue of his own, Hazel is much less interested in the book. When van Houten shows up at Gus's funeral, he's softened a bit, acknowledging the reason why he was so negative â€” his own daughter died of cancer.
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The Fault in Our Stars / int_373273af	type	Throwing Out the Script
The Fault in Our Stars / int_373273af	comment	Throwing Out the Script: Augustus, Hazel, and Isaac hold a "pre-funeral" for one another, where they've written quite unconventional eulogies that they, to each otherâ€™s appreciation, read aloud. However, at Augustus' actual funeral, Hazel gives Augustus' parents a glance before she's about to read that same eulogy she wrote for his pre-funeral again and changes her mind (even though she doesn't actually believe in any of the things she ends up saying instead) since, she states in the voice-over, "Funerals are not for the dead. They're for the living".
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The Fault in Our Stars / int_3b9b21c9	type	So Beautiful, It's a Curse
The Fault in Our Stars / int_3b9b21c9	comment	So Beautiful, It's a Curse: Played for Laughs in this exchange:
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The Fault in Our Stars / int_3d480b53	type	Trauma Swing
The Fault in Our Stars / int_3d480b53	comment	Trauma Swing: Gus is so attuned to the traumatic symbolism of Hazel's depressing old swing set that he helps her sell it on the internet.
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The Fault in Our Stars / int_3f1aadeb	type	Strictly Formula
The Fault in Our Stars / int_3f1aadeb	comment	Strictly Formula: This novel, like John Greenâ€™s other books, is about a nerdy, highly intelligent teenage boy who has his eye on a quirky, mysterious girl, eventually going on a road trip where he has a mind-blowing revelation about life. However, it does reverse the roles, telling it from the quirky girl's perspective as she falls in love with the nerdy Teen Genius who is fawning over her.
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The Fault in Our Stars / int_40cc0c7e	type	Bittersweet Ending
The Fault in Our Stars / int_40cc0c7e	comment	Bittersweet Ending: During their trip to Amsterdam, Gus reveals to Hazel that his cancer has returned and he's already terminal. After a month or so of rapidly declining health, he dies, devastating Hazel. In the aftermath, Hazel becomes closer to her parents and feels more confident that they will persevere after her inevitable death. In the final moments of the book, Hazel reads a eulogy that Augustus made for her in which he says that although getting hurt in this world is inevitable, we do get some say in who hurts us. The eulogy ends with Augustus saying that he is happy with his choices and wishes Hazel likes hers, to which the book ends with her saying, "I do."
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The Fault in Our Stars / int_46290b93	type	Manic Pixie Dream Girl
The Fault in Our Stars / int_46290b93	comment	Manic Pixie Dream Girl: Subverted, with Augustus Waters being mistaken for a Manic Pixie Dream Boy but later proving not to be one. He professes his love to Hazel through contrived, rehearsed outings, complete with memorized "soliloquies" (monologues) and "metaphorically-resonant" sandwiches, but the conviction of their love only feels "real" and "true" when the two of them see through the others' cracks during their trip to Amsterdam, mainly after he reveals to her that he's terminally ill again.
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The Fault in Our Stars / int_4e7c4536	type	Wham Line
The Fault in Our Stars / int_4e7c4536	comment	Wham Line: "Just before you went into the ICU, I started to feel this ache in my hip." "Augustus Waters died eight days after his prefuneral." No matter how obvious or predictable it is that it's coming, it still hurts like hell.
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The Fault in Our Stars / int_4ec4c5ab	type	Harsher in Hindsight
The Fault in Our Stars / int_4ec4c5ab	comment	Harsher in Hindsight: In-Universe, Van Houten insults Augustus' intelligence by saying his cancer must have spread to his brain. A Kick the Dog moment on its own, but then Gus later reveals that his cancer did in fact return and has spread to the rest of his body.
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The Fault in Our Stars / int_517f8d71	type	Delusions of Eloquence
The Fault in Our Stars / int_517f8d71	comment	Delusions of Eloquence: Augustus and Hazel are borderline cases â€” they get some of their longer and/or rarer and/or archaic words right and then misuse "transmit" or "soliloquy", for just two examples. This is lampshaded when they describe the food in Oranjee in such prose that their parents agree, "Our kids are weird."
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The Fault in Our Stars / int_557838d1	type	Adaptational Attractiveness
The Fault in Our Stars / int_557838d1	comment	Adaptational Attractiveness: Peter van Houten is played by Willem Dafoe in the movie, and unsurprisingly, he's more attractive than the fat and spindly Peter in the book. Hazel was described in the book as being less than supermodel gorgeous, with an overinflated face and badly-cut hair. In the movie, she's played by the beautiful Shailene Woodley.
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The Fault in Our Stars / int_596f675a	type	Smoking Is Cool
The Fault in Our Stars / int_596f675a	comment	Smoking Is Cool: Gus and his pack of "metaphorically resonant" cigarettes, although he just enjoys holding them in his mouth unlit (they're cancer survivors, not suicidal). Hazel calls him on it the first time she sees him do it. She's especially offended because she already has breathing problems and is on oxygen due to her lung tumors.
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The Fault in Our Stars / int_5ee6a992	type	Oh, and X Dies
The Fault in Our Stars / int_5ee6a992	comment	Oh, and X Dies: Played With. The main character, Hazel, opens the book by telling us that her cancer has never been anything but terminal. At the end of the book, she's still alive, but her boyfriend has died of his cancer, which had been in remission.
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The Fault in Our Stars / int_6070670f	type	Complete-the-Quote Title
The Fault in Our Stars / int_6070670f	comment	Complete-the-Quote Title: The title is quote mined from a line in Shakespeare's Julius Caesar — "The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars but in ourselves." John Green called this "an easy thing to say if you're, like, you know, Shakespeare or a Roman nobleman," but found himself unable to agree with it 100%, as diseases â€” especially diseases like cancer â€” strike at random and rarely come to affect people who "deserve" it. As cancer is what really serves as the most negative influence on the characters' lives, the fault did indeed lie in their stars.
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The Fault in Our Stars / int_62fd5552	type	Bavarian Fire Drill
The Fault in Our Stars / int_62fd5552	comment	Bavarian Fire Drill: Gus when he, Hazel, and Isaac egg Isaac's ex-girlfriend Monica's car and are caught by Monica's mom. It works.
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The Fault in Our Stars / int_643618e5	type	Replacement Goldfish
The Fault in Our Stars / int_643618e5	comment	Replacement Goldfish: Considering how Hazel says her and Caroline's "cancer selves" could be sisters, Augustus's determination to get to know her as soon as he sees her (insisting she come to his house to watch a movie right then without actually asking her or considering that she might have other plans), and his giving her his Wish, essentially his most valuable possession, a mere two and a half weeks after meeting her, it really sounds like Hazel is Augustus's for Caroline, at least at the beginning of their relationship.
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The Fault in Our Stars / int_66755d29	type	Author Avatar
The Fault in Our Stars / int_66755d29	comment	Author Avatar: Downplayed. Peter Van Houten is not overtly meant to be one for writer John Green, but Green has admitted that Van Houten's views on authorial intent reflect his own, or at least what they were at the time he wrote the book, and also that Van Houten's unpleasantness is essentially a self-deprecating reflection of his own uglier traits. According to Green, though, this was unintentional when he wrote the character and was only something he noticed in hindsight.
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The Fault in Our Stars / int_6682d6e4	type	Dying Moment of Awesome
The Fault in Our Stars / int_6682d6e4	comment	Dying Moment of Awesome: In one of their last conversations, Augustus tells Hazel that he wants to die this way. He remarks that museum exhibits often show people dying in battle, but never of sickness. "There is no glory in dying of."
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The Fault in Our Stars / int_674fcb07	type	Signature Line
The Fault in Our Stars / int_674fcb07	comment	Signature Line: "I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once."
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The Fault in Our Stars / int_6a3bedce	type	Modesty Bedsheet
The Fault in Our Stars / int_6a3bedce	comment	Modesty Bedsheet: The film's depiction of Hazel and Augustus' sex scene shows them in bed under one of these after the deed is done.
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The Fault in Our Stars / int_6bda9a30	comment	Meaningful Name: Lidewij Vliegenthart was supposedly named for Lidewij and Sanne Vliegenthart — two Dutch nerdfighters. Sanne's channel is here. Isaac, who has to get a surgery that causes him to go blind in order to get rid of his cancer, is named after the Biblical Isaac, who also went blind. ("Isaac" also sounds like "eye-sick", though John Green said this was more a happy accident. "I'm not that punny.") John himself has confirmed that he came up with Hazel's name because hazel is an in-between color and she has an in-between life.
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The Fault in Our Stars / int_6c22a57b	comment	Jumping on a Grenade: Augustus enjoys doing this in video games to save the fictional schoolchildren. In a more poetic sense, when Hazel doesn't want him to love her because she is a "grenade" and her death will hurt him, he does anyway.
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The Fault in Our Stars / int_76e24530	type	Delicate and Sickly
The Fault in Our Stars / int_76e24530	comment	Delicate and Sickly: Hazel was diagnosed with Stage IV thyroid cancer at age 13, with metastasized tumors in her lungs. This is known from the opening chapter. She plays this role to her would-be suitor, the dorky Augustus, who was once quite ill himself and thus able to understand her plight. Several times, Hazel narrates her surprise that Gus finds her as attractive as Natalie Portman despite the state that cancer has left her body in. Then, the roles are rather cruelly flipped as Augustus's cancer returns with a vengeance, making him the ill boy and Hazel his (comparatively) healthy comforter during his last days. Notable in that both characters are technically ill the whole time; Hazel ultimately winds up being merely less ill than her rapidly-dying boyfriend.
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The Fault in Our Stars / int_77552932	type	Character Shilling
The Fault in Our Stars / int_77552932	comment	Character Shilling: Hazel's description of Augustus Waters, from the very first time she meets him, is pretty glowing, focusing on his good looks, charisma, and the connection they have in conversation, compared to her descriptions of other people (which tend to be affectionate but don't gloss over flaws). This ends up fading away as she gets to know him, even though she falls in love with him (and he with her) she gets to see his flaws in greater detail.
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The Fault in Our Stars / int_7b20b8d2	type	Alternative Foreign Theme Song
The Fault in Our Stars / int_7b20b8d2	comment	Alternative Foreign Theme Song: The theme song for the Japanese version of the film is "Lil Infinity" by AAA.
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The Fault in Our Stars / int_7eebe99c	type	The Alcoholic
The Fault in Our Stars / int_7eebe99c	comment	The Alcoholic: Peter Van Houten, to Hazel and Augustus' shock. He has experienced a Cynicism Catalyst since the death of his daughter. Hazel's last glimpse of him sees him considering a bottle of liquor, almost discarding it—- and then taking a swig anyway.
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The Fault in Our Stars / int_85557b38	type	Reality Is Unrealistic
The Fault in Our Stars / int_85557b38	comment	Reality Is Unrealistic: A few people who reviewed the movie suggested that it was Hollywood-ized to some degree due to Augustus's chemo not resulting in any hair loss, but the writers did their research and the type of chemo that character would be on in their situation wouldn't result in any hair loss.
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The Fault in Our Stars / int_863fa679	type	What Happened to the Mouse?
The Fault in Our Stars / int_863fa679	comment	What Happened to the Mouse?: In-universe: The main characters love a Cut Short novel and want to know what happened to, amongst other things, the pet hamster. Ironically, the same thing happened to John Green by readers of the actual novel, even after explaining in an authorâ€™s note in the novel and several times on this blog that he doesnâ€™t know anything more about the plot or characters than that which is contained in the book. Effectively, he knows exactly no more and no less than his readers. Even when they don't believe him.
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The Fault in Our Stars / int_868409c	type	Broken Pedestal
The Fault in Our Stars / int_868409c	comment	Broken Pedestal: Both Augustus Waters and Hazel Grace love and are obsessed with the book An Imperial Affliction by Peter Van Houten. Augustus uses his one wish to take Hazel to meet Van Houten in Amsterdam. Unfortunately, he turns out to be a total cynical Jerkass, not the wise and poetic writer they'd imagined him to be when they read the book. This is because he lost his daughter to cancer, and it is implied that Hazel painfully reminds him so much of his beloved daughter.
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The Fault in Our Stars / int_89204ffb	type	Shrug of God
The Fault in Our Stars / int_89204ffb	comment	Shrug of God: Van Houten's In-Universe answer when Hazel and Angustus ask him what happened to the characters of An Imperial Affliction is that he doesn't know. He then doubles down when they ask him to just make up something.
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The Fault in Our Stars / int_8efbd9d2	type	Meaningful Funeral
The Fault in Our Stars / int_8efbd9d2	comment	Meaningful Funeral: Subverted and played straight. Augustus, upon learning he is dying, asks his two closest friends to read their eulogies at a memorial service before he actually dies, leading to a highly personal Meaningful Funeral. His actual funeral, by contrast, consists mostly of platitudes said by more distant acquaintances, although even then, there are a few moments of genuine connection.
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The Fault in Our Stars / int_916c72b3	type	Rule of Symbolism
The Fault in Our Stars / int_916c72b3	comment	Rule of Symbolism: Green had this to say about the book's final sentence ("I do."), which he sees as marital symbolism.
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The Fault in Our Stars / int_931773f1	type	Lovable Nerd
The Fault in Our Stars / int_931773f1	comment	Lovable Nerd: Augustus has his moments. Hazel doesn't care much for The Price of Dawn, but reads the book because she knows how much Augustus loves it.
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The Fault in Our Stars / int_9438e550	type	The Big Damn Kiss
The Fault in Our Stars / int_9438e550	comment	The Big Damn Kiss: Hazel and Augustus have their first kiss in front of a crowd of tourists in the Anne Frank house, complete with applause.
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The Fault in Our Stars / int_96433323	type	Ailment-Induced Cruelty
The Fault in Our Stars / int_96433323	comment	Ailment-Induced Cruelty: Discussed. Augustus' former girlfriend Caroline had brain cancer, and what he calls the Asshole Tumor. Lacking any sort of filter between her thoughts and her mouth, she'd often be rude and even downright mean to everyone, including Augustus. He admits that because he only met her after she got sick, he can't actually be sure if her behavior was due to the tumor, general pain and bitterness, or just her personality.
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The Fault in Our Stars / int_986bd638	type	This Is a Work of Fiction
The Fault in Our Stars / int_986bd638	comment	This Is a Work of Fiction: In the Author's Note:
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The Fault in Our Stars / int_9c0f67e2	type	Egging
The Fault in Our Stars / int_9c0f67e2	comment	Egging: Hazel and Augustus help Isaac throw eggs at his ex-girlfriend's car. They're caught by her mum, who is so shocked that she simply goes back inside.
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The Fault in Our Stars / int_9cede50e	type	Toplessness from the Back
The Fault in Our Stars / int_9cede50e	comment	Toplessness from the Back: A shot of Hazel in this state after Gus takes off her bra is the most explicit that the film's depiction of their sex scene gets before cutting to the nigh-mandatory Modesty Bedsheet.
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The Fault in Our Stars / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
The Fault in Our Stars / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: When Hazel, Gus, and Hazel's mom are on the plane, it's mentioned that Hazel and Gus pushed the play button on their movie simultaneously, but Gus's movie started before's Hazel did. This foreshadows that Gus dies later in the book: just like his movie starts first, his movie, i.e. his life, ends first.
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The Fault in Our Stars / int_9dd2af4a	type	Inspirationally Disadvantaged
The Fault in Our Stars / int_9dd2af4a	comment	Inspirationally Disadvantaged: Discussed and deconstructed throughout the book: When Gus finally opens up about his deceased ex-girlfriend Caroline, he outright tells Hazel that she was the opposite of the "inspirational cancer patient who never stopped smiling". Rather, her brain tumor caused her to become a cruel and volatile person to everyone around her, Gus included. The nurses of the hospital dubbed her specific case of cancer the "Asshole Tumor." During his final days, Hazel tells the reader point-blank that Gus did not carry on as his typical upbeat self in the face of his death—he was a very scared, very angry teenage boy. In some Black Comedy, Isaac lampshades this after he becomes blind by jokingly saying, "come over here so I can examine your face with my hands and see deeper into your soul than a sighted person ever could."
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The Fault in Our Stars / int_9f62723d	type	Get Out!
The Fault in Our Stars / int_9f62723d	comment	Get Out!: Hazel yells this at Van Houten when he gets into her car to try and talk to her.
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The Fault in Our Stars / int_a2022cc9	type	Killed Mid-Sentence
The Fault in Our Stars / int_a2022cc9	comment	Killed Mid-Sentence: The fictional story-within-astory An Imperial Affliction "ends right in the middle of a —" Hazel and Gus both assume this to mean that the protagonist died midsentence.
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The Fault in Our Stars / int_a46825fa	type	Glass Eye
The Fault in Our Stars / int_a46825fa	comment	Glass Eye: Isaac has one at the beginning of the book, as a result of a rare form of eye cancer. The eye itself isn't really mentioned except as part of his description.
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The Fault in Our Stars / int_a4c37cbe	type	Mood Whiplash
The Fault in Our Stars / int_a4c37cbe	comment	Mood Whiplash: The day after Hazel and Augustus share their first kiss and make love, Augustus reveals that his cancer has returned and metastasized.
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The Fault in Our Stars / int_a8dcb1d7	type	Love at First Sight
The Fault in Our Stars / int_a8dcb1d7	comment	Love at First Sight: Subverted. Augustus seems to be extremely taken with Hazel when he first sees her at the cancer support group. He canâ€™t stop staring at her. He does genuinely like Hazel right away, but he was initially staring because she looked uncannily like his deceased ex-girlfriend Caroline.
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The Fault in Our Stars / int_b1efb7a7	type	Mayflyâ€“December Romance
The Fault in Our Stars / int_b1efb7a7	comment	Mayflyâ€“December Romance: Played with, on the scale of an average human lifespan. Hazel, the sixteen-year-old protagonist, diagnosed with terminal cancer, has an uncertain number of years to left to live, but probably not many. Then she meets and falls in love with a seventeen-year-old Augustus, who is well into remission and will likely live a normal number of years. However, Augustus' cancer recurs, and Hazel is the one left behind by a lover's death.
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The Fault in Our Stars / int_b2adf5ad	type	Destructo-Nookie
The Fault in Our Stars / int_b2adf5ad	comment	Destructo-Nookie: Averted and lampshaded when Hazel and Gus have sex, with Hazel commenting that "no headboards were broken".
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The Fault in Our Stars / int_b474c23f	type	Misery Poker
The Fault in Our Stars / int_b474c23f	comment	Misery Poker: Forms rather large (but unspoken) part of the Cancer Support Group experience. People with more serious cancers tend to get more respect automatically, and people with "lesser" forms of cancer (like appendicial cancer) are somewhat looked down upon.
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The Fault in Our Stars / int_b53077b3	type	Take That!
The Fault in Our Stars / int_b53077b3	comment	The entire book, as well as An Imperial Affliction, is designed to be one big Take That! to the Glurge and sugar that most cancer stories are filled with.
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The Fault in Our Stars / int_b9561236	type	A Good Name for a Rock Band
The Fault in Our Stars / int_b9561236	comment	A Good Name for a Rock Band: The Hectic Glow, a band "so beautifully underground that they don't even exist."
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The Fault in Our Stars / int_b9af5ef3	type	The Film of the Book
The Fault in Our Stars / int_b9af5ef3	comment	The Film of the Book: Released in June 2014.
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The Fault in Our Stars / int_bb222e09	type	Danger Takes a Backseat
The Fault in Our Stars / int_bb222e09	comment	Danger Takes A Back Seat: Peter Van Houten scares Hazel when he pops up in the back of her parents' van a week after Gus' funeral.
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The Fault in Our Stars / int_bc00493f	type	Precision F-Strike
The Fault in Our Stars / int_bc00493f	comment	Precision F-Strike: Hazel gives Van Houten one before storming out of his living room in the movie.
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The Fault in Our Stars / int_c5f2eeff	type	Relationship Labeling Problems
The Fault in Our Stars / int_c5f2eeff	comment	Relationship Labeling Problems: Due to their circumstances both having a form of cancer, Hazel and Gus dance around labelling their relationship for a while. On a plane ride to Amsterdam, after watching Hazel comfort Gus while the plane takes off, the woman next to the two comments that they are adorable. Hazel responds that they're Just Friends but Gus quickly amends that comment saying "She is. I'm not." However, they do get their Relationship Upgrade in Amsterdam.
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The Fault in Our Stars / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
The Fault in Our Stars / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: At one point, Augustus muses that it would be awesome to fly in a super-fast jet that could follow the sun. John's admitted to being a fan of Phineas and Ferb, and this was the plot of their first special. "Funky Bones" is located at Indianapolis Museum of Art, where Sarah Urist Green, aka The Yeti, is Curator of Contemporary Collections. The author's wife had a major hand in bringing the sculpture to Indy. Hazel and Augustus watch V for Vendetta the first time she goes to his house, as Augustus claims she looks identical to the lead actress, Natalie Portman. To Shakespeare: The title comes from a line in Julius Caesar Act I, Scene II.
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The Fault in Our Stars / int_ca3a6dbd	type	Informed Ability
The Fault in Our Stars / int_ca3a6dbd	comment	Informed Ability: Hazel and Gus are both said to be very mature, intellectual, and deep, yet they behave immaturely more often than not and their "deep" words and thoughts tend to be morbid and existentialist, but not particularly varied or profound. Could be intentional, though, if the author was going for teenagers thinking they are more mature and deep than they really are.
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The Fault in Our Stars / int_cc4b45f6	type	Word of God
The Fault in Our Stars / int_cc4b45f6	comment	John himself has confirmed that he came up with Hazel's name because hazel is an in-between color and she has an in-between life.
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The Fault in Our Stars / int_ce75a983	type	Screw Destiny
The Fault in Our Stars / int_ce75a983	comment	Screw Destiny: In Norway, the book's title has been translated as Fuck Fate, which John Green finds to be a Woolseyism.
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The Fault in Our Stars / int_d280a296	type	Teen Genius
The Fault in Our Stars / int_d280a296	comment	Teen Genius: Like many other John Green characters, Hazel and Augustus are insanely philosophical and verbally articulate for their age. Notably, though, they do get a lot of things wrong. For example, Hazel misunderstands relativity, statistics, and the concept of infinity, and Gus says "soliloquy" when he means "monologue". According to the author, this was on purpose, to show that even though they're very intelligent, they're still young and inexperienced.
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The Fault in Our Stars / int_d2aa7d09	type	Littlest Cancer Patient
The Fault in Our Stars / int_d2aa7d09	comment	Littlest Cancer Patient: The book subverts this to hell and back. The three main protagonists, Hazel, Gus, and Isaac all have some form of cancer, but they do not exist to tug at heartstrings. Hazel especially calls out all the cancer cliches that exist within this trope.
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The Fault in Our Stars / int_d45c0b86	type	Refuge in Audacity
The Fault in Our Stars / int_d45c0b86	comment	Refuge in Audacity: Gus' speech to Monica's mom after she catches him, Hazel, and Isaac egging Monica's car, which actually succeeds in getting her to leave them alone to finish their vandalism.
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The Fault in Our Stars / int_da1c8191	type	Writers Cannot Do Math
The Fault in Our Stars / int_da1c8191	comment	Writers Cannot Do Math: While she's right that some infinities are larger than other infinities, Hazel incorrectly believes that the infinite set between zero and two is larger than the infinite set between zero and one. However, Word of God states that it was intentional, as he didnâ€™t want his characters to always be right.
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The Fault in Our Stars / int_da346c6b	type	Disabled Snarker
The Fault in Our Stars / int_da346c6b	comment	Disabled Snarker: Hazel and Augustus have plenty of snark tucked up their sleeves relating to their disabilities (and the cheesy platitudes that they hear a lot). One Running Gag between them is referring to "benefits" related to their illnesses (people being exceedingly nice to them, free drinks on the airplane, etc.) as "Cancer Perks."
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The Fault in Our Stars / int_e132a621	type	Fluffy Cloud Heaven
The Fault in Our Stars / int_e132a621	comment	Fluffy Cloud Heaven: Gus says he doesn't believe in this, but does say he believes in "Something".
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The Fault in Our Stars / int_e16cd2c8	type	Grief-Induced Split
The Fault in Our Stars / int_e16cd2c8	comment	Grief-Induced Split: Discussed when Hazel worries that her parents might divorce after she dies, as she knows from statistics that it is most likely to happen. They promise her in the final chapters that they won't.
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The Fault in Our Stars / int_e6fe6d6	type	Freestate Amsterdam
The Fault in Our Stars / int_e6fe6d6	comment	Freestate Amsterdam: Mostly averted (John Green really likes Amsterdam and goes whenever chance he gets), although the 16-year-old protagonists are served champagne in a restaurant quite openly. Which, at the time the book came out, was perfectly legal under Dutch law.
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The Fault in Our Stars / int_e88e8a8f	comment	Writer on Board: John Green has admitted Van Houten's pro-Death of the Author views are essentially his own (though he hopes he's less of a Jerkass about it).
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The Fault in Our Stars / int_ea2e9f2d	comment	No Ending: Occurs in-universe. The main charactersâ€™ favorite book ends mid-sentence, leaving several plot lines unresolved, and one subplot of the novel deals with the characters trying to find out from the author what happened to the characters.
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The Fault in Our Stars / int_eb8ec7c8	comment	Jerkass: Gus and Hazel are horrified to see that this it the case of Van Houten. He spends their long-awaited meeting with him blasting Swedish rap, waxing nonsensical platitudes, and insulting their intelligence, for seemingly no other purpose than to annoy them. A conversation between him and Hazel at the end of the novel has him confessing that this is a side-effect of his daughter's death by cancer and Hazel reminding him of her.
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The Fault in Our Stars / int_edac0624	comment	Puzzling Platypus: Hazel compares her and Gus (as cancer patients surviving past what was expected of them) to the platypus.
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The Fault in Our Stars / int_edfe768d	comment	Kendo Team Captain: Augustus was a star of the freshman basketball team (in Indiana, where basketball is king) prior to losing a leg to cancer.
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The Fault in Our Stars / int_ee9877ea	comment	Too Good for This Sinful Earth: Augustus alludes to this, saying, "Like, are you familiar with the trope of the stoic and determined cancer victim who heroically fights her cancer with inhuman strength and never complains or stops smiling even at the very end, et cetera?" "According to the conventions of this genre, he kept his sense of humor until the end, did not for a moment waver in his courage, and his spirit soared like an indomitable eagle until the world itself could not contain his joyous soul. But this was the truth..."
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The Fault in Our Stars / int_f10d3363	comment	Distracted by the Sexy: Kaitlyn loses track of the conversation just from the thought of Augustus. Hazel also has one of those moments herself in Support Group, and due to the way Augustus was staring at her back, it's presumed to be mutual. Averted in that he was probably distracted by the fact that she looked like Caroline Mathers, his dead ex-girlfriend, which isn't exactly the stuff of romance.
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The Fault in Our Stars / int_f26d5e66	comment	Brainless Beauty: Hazel's bubbly friend Kaitlyn (who was Adapted Out from the movie) is beautiful and spends most of her time worrying about boys, making her and the bookish Hazel a case of Opposites Attract.
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The Fault in Our Stars / int_f91d1d4f	comment	Darkest Hour: After returning from Amsterdam, Gus quickly begins to decline from his terminal cancer, and becomes less and less himself. Hazel, desperate to spend their last time to its fullest, despairs when it seems she'll no longer be able to get through to him. Gus eventually recovers from his depression enough to comfort a heartbroken Isaac and attend his own "prefuneral"—but dies a week later.
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The Fault in Our Stars / int_f96f188c	comment	Drives Like Crazy: Augustus, due in part to his having a prosthetic right leg that prevents him from feeling the subtleties in pressure needed for non-jerky driving experiences. Hazel suspects that the examiner who licensed him (on the third try) only passed him as a "Cancer Perk".
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The Fault in Our Stars / int_f9f2c33	comment	Running Gag: The books based on Gus's favorite video game, The Price of Dawn. Count how many times "Max Mayhem" (and his Plot Armor) is brought up after Hazel reads them. Hazel's addiction to America's Next Top Model pops up throughout the novel.
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The Fault in Our Stars / int_fcc1378e	type	Pop-Up Texting
The Fault in Our Stars / int_fcc1378e	comment	Pop-Up Texting: The film version does a unique version of this, with sketchy "hand-drawn" bubbles popping up that come across as a sketch of iPhone text bubbles.
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The Fault in Our Stars / int_fcd9b657	comment	Gallows Humor: Hazel, Augustus, and Isaac are as full of this as you would expect terminally ill teenagers to be. One particular gem:
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The Fault in Our Stars / int_ff17ccf1	type	Innocently Insensitive
The Fault in Our Stars / int_ff17ccf1	comment	Innocently Insensitive Hazel sees several examples following Augustus' death, from posts on his wall made by people who haven't seen him in months, to speakers at his memorial mostly talking about how great he was at football. In one case of the former, in which someone commented that Gus is now playing basketball in heaven, Hazel is particularly incensed by the knowledge that Gus would hate such a statement. One of the support group attendees is a girl who previously had appendiceal cancer before it was removed and she went into remission. The terminally ill Hazel isn't very sympathetic when she speaks during meetings.
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The Fault in Our Stars / int_ffa0483f	comment	In-universe: The main characters love a Cut Short novel and want to know what happened to, amongst other things, the pet hamster.
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