Who doesn’t love teenage flirting enmeshed with teenage sarcasm and cynicism? I, for one, love both. If this turns into a trend it will give me hope that the teens of today may someday be better equipped to talk about illness, death and grief.Ģ) The teenage cynicism is spot on. Real issues are addressed, real philosophic debates are considered, and there is no happy ending. After fretting for several years that YA fiction was soon all going to be found in the “teen vampire romance” section, a book and movie tackling two teens with cancer was a refreshing change.
Boy eventually dies when his cancer comes back with a vengeance.ġ) TFIOS tackles real issues AND manages to be frighteningly popular. Charming former high school basketball star Augustus Waters is in remission from cancer that caused him to lose his leg.
If you aren’t familiar with this John Green YA classic, here is the quick and dirty plot: Hazel Grace Lancaster has stage 4 cancer, relies on oxygen to breathe, but is in treatment with an experimental drug that is keeping the cancer in check.
If you haven’t read the book/seen the movie and plan to, stop reading this post!! WARNING: from this point on spoilers abound. Not to mention the casting for Hazel was perfect – I can’t imagine anyone doing the character justice better than Shailene Woodley. Hazel Graze Lancaster is smart and witty and the heroine you want a 13 year old girl to love. August Waters is perfectly charming, perhaps to a fault. TFIOS is a quintessential teenage love story, chock full of flirting, banter, hormones, text messages and teenage angst. As waves of laughs, tears, and squeals rose from the teens around me throughout the movie I felt a little more tolerant, as I would far prefer they squeal about Hazel and Augustus than Edward and Jacob. That being said, The Fault In Our Stars did a pretty good job of capturing the spirit of the book, and renewing my faith that teens can, and do, love more than just trashy vampire novels. You can’t cram all the crucial details and nuances of 313 pages into a movie, even if it is a young adult book. I should probably start by saying that I have a strong belief that movies never live up to books.
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