The fault in our stars movie tumblr3/15/2023 ![]() ![]() Taken directly from John Green's FAQ page for TFIOS I think you are weighing too much importance on Peter Van Houten's views. We're just supposed to just finish a novel and not ponder it whatsoever? The book ends suddenly on a present tense sentence and we're not supposed to wonder why? Let me be the first to say F that noise. If John Green doesn't want people discussing or reflecting on the end of his book, I think he is in the wrong business. #Edit- Had to cut my original response short to go catch a movie I could be misinterpreting his intention, but to me the "I do" signifies the conjoining of two souls,- Hazel being reunited to Augustus in Something as the book ends. John Green has stated the final lines of the book being a connection to what you say when you get married. I think (and I can not stress enough that this is just my opinion) that the entire story is being told by Hazel thinking back on the love of her life from a hospice bed as she lays dying with her final "I do." being the moment she crosses into Something, with a capitol S. The very last line of the book, however, is "I do."- present-tense. The book opens with "Late in the winter of my seventeenth year," and continues to be a past tense narrative. At the end of the book she takes the elevator down to the literal heart of Jesus when in the beginning of the book she describes taking the stairs because taking the elevator was seen as a 'final days' activity. To me this was foreshadowing Hazel (hopefully) leaving earth at peace knowing these facts. Towards the end Hazel comes to terms that death does not mean her mother will no longer be her mother and that her mother has a way to carry on after she dies. ![]() A google search will reveal many credible sources to this fact and a good real life example would be the case of Brittany Murphy's husbands death who died shortly after her from the same thing. I imagine that her immune system took a hit with Augustus gone- depression drastically affects it. With stage IV cancer Hazel was living on borrowed time when it was already a miracle that her short life was not cut even shorter previously. It mentions more frequent lung drainings and her increasing difficulty with accomplishing small tasks. In the book there are small hints of her condition progressively getting worse. My belief is that Hazel dies <1 year after Augustus. ![]()
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