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New York Times Book Review for John Greens Book the Fault in Our Stars

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2012 novel by John Greenish

The Fault in Our Stars
The Fault in Our Stars.jpg
Author John Dark-green
Cover artist Rodrigo Corral
Land United States
Linguistic communication English language
Genre
  • Young adult novel
  • realistic fiction
Published Jan ten, 2012 (Dutton Books)
Media type Print (hardcover, paperback), audiobook, ebook
Pages 313
ISBN 0-525-47881-7

The Mistake in Our Stars is a novel by John Green. It is his fourth solo novel and sixth novel overall. It was published on January 10, 2012. The championship is inspired past Act one, Scene 2 of Shakespeare'due south play Julius Caesar, in which the nobleman Cassius says to Brutus: "The fault, love Brutus, is not in our stars, / But in ourselves, that we are underlings." The story is narrated by Hazel Grace Lancaster, a 16-year-one-time girl with thyroid cancer that has affected her lungs. Hazel is forced by her parents to attend a support group where she subsequently meets and falls in love with 17-twelvemonth-old Augustus Waters, an ex-basketball game player, amputee, and survivor of osteosarcoma.

An American characteristic film adaptation of the same name equally the novel directed by Josh Boone and starring Shailene Woodley, Ansel Elgort, and Nat Wolff was released on June 6, 2014.[i] A Hindi feature picture show accommodation of the novel, titled Dil Bechara, which was directed past Mukesh Chhabra and starring Sushant Singh Rajput, Sanjana Sanghi, Saswata Chatterjee, Swastika Mukherjee and Saif Ali Khan was released on July 24, 2020, on Disney+ Hotstar.[two] Both the book and its American film adaptation were met with strong critical and commercial success.

Plot [edit]

Hazel Grace Lancaster, a xvi-year-old with thyroid cancer that has spread to her lungs, attends a cancer patient support group at her female parent's bidding. At one meeting, Hazel meets a 17-year-old male child currently in remission named Augustus Waters, whose osteosarcoma caused him to lose his right leg. Augustus is at the coming together to support Isaac, his friend who has eye cancer. Hazel and Augustus strike a bond immediately and agree to read each other's favorite novels. Augustus gives Hazel The Price of Dawn, and Hazel recommends An Imperial Disease, a novel virtually a cancer-stricken girl named Anna that parallels Hazel's ain feel. Afterwards Augustus finishes reading her volume, he is frustrated upon learning that the novel ends abruptly without a conclusion, as if Anna had died all of a sudden. Hazel explains the novel's author, Peter van Houten, retreated to Amsterdam post-obit the novel's publication and has not been heard from since.

A week later, Augustus reveals to Hazel that he has tracked down Van Houten'southward assistant, Lidewij, and, through her, has managed to start an e-mail correspondence with Van Houten. The two write to Van Houten with questions regarding the novel's catastrophe; he somewhen replies, explaining that he can simply reply Hazel'due south questions in person. At a picnic, Augustus surprises Hazel with tickets to Amsterdam to encounter Van Houten, acquired through the story's version of the Brand-A-Wish Foundation, "The Genies."

Upon meeting Van Houten, Hazel and Augustus are shocked to discover that he is a mean-spirited alcoholic. Horrified by Van Houten's hostile behavior towards the teenagers, Lidewij confesses to having arranged the meeting on his behalf. Lidewij resigns every bit Van Houten'due south assistant and takes Hazel and Augustus to the Anne Frank House, where Augustus and Hazel share their first buss. Later that night Hazel and Augustus lose their virginity to one another in Augustus'southward hotel room, confessing their mutual love for each other.

The side by side day, Augustus reveals that his cancer has returned. Upon their render to Indianapolis, Augustus's health continues to deteriorate, resulting in him staying in the ICU for a few days. Fearing his expiry, Augustus invites Isaac and Hazel to his pre-funeral, where they give eulogies. Augustus dies soon afterward, leaving Hazel heartbroken. Van Houten shows upwardly at Augustus's funeral to apologize to Hazel, but Hazel does non forgive him.

Hazel learns that Augustus had written an obituary for her, and reads it after Lidewij discovers it amidst Van Houten's letters. It states that getting hurt in this earth is unavoidable, but we do get to choose whom we permit to hurt united states of america, and that he is happy with his choice, and hopes she likes hers too. The book closes with Hazel stating that she is happy with her choice.

Characters [edit]

Hazel Grace Lancaster: Hazel Grace Lancaster is a 16-year-one-time college student with lung cancer. She is not at all optimistic and knows she will die of her cancer soon. She knows very well that being famous and loved widely does not matter equally much as being who she is and being loved securely considering oblivion is inevitable.

Augustus "Gus" Waters
Augustus Waters is a 17-year-old male child who suffered from cancer and subsequently had a leg amputation. Gus is optimistic and wants to be known widely and have people remember him when he dies. Prior to meeting Hazel, Gus had a girlfriend, Caroline Mather, who died from a cancerous brain tumor, and it is stated that Hazel resembles her.
Isaac
Isaac is 17 years old and goes to the same support group as Hazel because of his eye cancer. His eye cancer has caused him to get blind.
Peter Van Houten
Peter Van Houten is Hazel and Augustus' favorite writer, who wrote their favorite volume, the fictional book An Imperial Affliction. Subsequently he turns out to be a pot-bellied alcoholic who is neither planning to write a sequel for AIA nor willing to imagine a future for the characters in the book. He had an eight-year-old daughter who died of leukemia.
Patrick
The strange support group leader who runs the coming together in the literal heart of Jesus at the church and had prostate cancer.
Mr. and Mrs. Lancaster
They are Hazel'due south parents. Mrs. Lancaster's main job is to (equally Hazel would say) "hover over her." She eventually plans to become a social worker and is already working for a year on her MSW. Mr. Lancaster is working for a real estate company – Morris Belongings Inc. He is the emotional one in the family unit.
Mr. and Mrs. Waters
They are Gus'southward parents. They have words of wisdom or Encouragement (as they used to call them) written all over their home. Gus's father along with Hazel agree that they have weird kids.
Lidewij Vliegenthart
She is the assistant to the author Peter Van Houten who resigns in the latter part of the book. She was the one who kickoff wrote back to Augustus and made Peter respond to Hazel and Augustus's emails. It is Lidewij who takes them for a visit to Anne Frank's firm and pays (on behalf of the author) for their dinner at Oranje. After Augustus dies, she finds the terminal letters that Augustus wrote to Peter Van Houten earlier his death and emails them to Hazel.

Other characters include:

Julie and Martha
Augustus'due south one-half-sisters, both married to bankers called Dave and Chris. Among them, they have three boys.
Graham
Isaac's ten-twelvemonth-old brother.
Kaitlyn
Hazel'southward only friend from her pre-cancer life. Apparently, she is the one who suggests that Gus might accept written something and mailed somebody else.
Caroline Mathers
Gus's ex-girlfriend who died of brain cancer before Gus and Hazel met.
Drs. Maria and Simon
Hazel's doctors.

Origins [edit]

After graduating from Kenyon College, Green spent near five months working as a educatee chaplain at Nationwide Children's Hospital in Columbus, Ohio.[3] He has cited this experience every bit inspiration for his story:[iv]

I tried to write that volume for near 10 years. Ever since I worked as a chaplain, I would go dorsum, I was trying to work on what I called the Children's Infirmary Story, although in all of its previous incarnations, it starred this 22-twelvemonth-quondam hospital chaplain, who was, similar, surprisingly handsome and, like, hooking up with doctors. Information technology was very embarrassing. I hope that — it was just terrible. But you know, I would go dorsum to that story and become back to information technology and get back to information technology. Then in 2010 a good friend of mine died of cancer, a young friend, and I went back to the story, and I went back to information technology angry and needing to work.

This immature friend who died was Esther Earl, who is named in the volume's dedication.

Publication history [edit]

On December 21, 2011, Barnes & Noble accidentally shipped one,500 copies of The Fault in Our Stars before the release date to people who had pre-ordered the book. Green released a statement saying, "Mistakes happen. The people who made this error were keen or incompetent people, and they were non acting maliciously. Nosotros all brand mistakes, and it is not my wish to see Barnes and Noble or any of their employees vilified."[5] Many people who received the book pledged non to read it until its release date, January 10, 2012, or discuss it until the adjacent day, January 11, every bit per a asking of Green's not to spoil it for other readers. Most kept to this promise, leaving the experience untarnished for those who got the book on the intended release date.[6]

The book rose to #84 on the Amazon.com and Barnes & Noble bestseller lists in June 2011 before long after its title was announced.[seven] Green promised that every pre-order would be paw-signed by him, requiring him to sign every copy of the start printing. He proposed that the general public vote on the color Sharpie he would employ to sign the books, resulting in him signing the 150,000 books with a variety of Sharpie colors, each in proportion to the number of votes received for that color.[8] However, some people who ordered from international booksellers received unsigned copies because those bookstores, including Amazon Great britain, underestimated how many books they needed and ordered more after the signing was complete, only Green agreed to gear up this problem, telling people with unsigned pre-orders to email him and then they could be sent a signed bookplate.[9] Many fans submitted their book cover designs to various outlets including Tumblr and Twitter, tagging Green in these posts so he could run into them. The sizeable number of posts received prompted Dark-green's publisher Penguin to seek a fan-designed comprehend for a reprint of one of Green's other books, An Abundance of Katherines.[10] The Fault in Our Stars debuted at No.1 on The New York Times All-time Seller list for Children'south Chapter Books[11] and remained in that spot for seven consecutive weeks.[12] A Hebrew edition of The Mistake in Our Stars was published in State of israel in August 2012 and more editions of the novel are forthcoming in Dutch, German, Spanish, French, Swedish, Danish, Icelandic, Chinese, Farsi and Portuguese[ as of? ]. The Fault in Our Stars has also gained places on several bestseller lists. It was No.1 on The Wall Street Journal bestseller list, No.1 on the Indiebound bestseller list, and No.nine on The Bookseller bestseller list. The novel was likewise The New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice.[13] As of January 2013, there are nearly 1 million copies of the novel in print.[14] In December 2012, information technology was announced that a special edition with a silver cover and an expanded Q&A, dubbed the 'Exclusive Collector's Edition', would be bachelor from Barnes & Noble. All or at least most of the copies beginning bachelor for purchase of this edition of the book contained a printing error wherein several pages of the first affiliate were replaced with pages from the Q&A department at the back of the volume.[15]

Reception [edit]

The Error in Our Stars received critical acclamation. Critics by and large praised the volume for its humour, strong characters, language, themes and new perspective on cancer and romance. The New York Times ' review of the book chosen it "a blend of melancholy, sweet, philosophical and funny" and said that it "stays the course of tragic realism", while noting that the book's unpleasant plot details "do zip to diminish the romance; in Light-green's easily, they simply make it more moving".[16] NPR's Rachel Syme noted that "[Light-green's] voice is then compulsively readable that it defies categorization", saying that the "elegantly plotted" book "may exist his best".[17] Time chosen The Fault in Our Stars "damn near genius".[xviii] Entertainment Weekly wrote, "[Augustus and Hazel's] love story is as existent as it is doomed, and the gut-busting laughs that come early in the novel brand the luminous final pages all the more heartbreaking", and gave the novel an overall A− class.[19] The Manila Bulletin says that the volume is "a drove of maudlin scenes and trite observations about the fragility of life and the wisdom of dying. And while it does talk about those things and more, the treatment of it is far from being maudlin or trite."[20] The Manila Message also added that "Only 2 paragraphs into the work, and he immediately wallops the readers with such an insightful ascertainment delivered in such an unsentimental way that its difficult not to shake your head in admiration."[xx] The Manila Bulletin stated that The Fault in Our Stars was a triumph for John Green.[20] United states of america Today called information technology an "elegiac comedy".[21] They gave the volume a rating of four out of four stars.[21] The School Library Journal stated that it was "a strong pick for Adult Collections".[22] The Fault in Our Stars received a starred review from Kirkus Reviews, who described it as "a smartly crafted intellectual explosion of a romance".[23]

Several well-known authors have contributed their own positive reviews for the book. Jodi Picoult, author of My Sister'south Keeper, calls The Fault in Our Stars "an electric portrait of young people who learn to live life with one foot in the grave". She goes on to say that the novel is "filled with staccato bursts of sense of humor and tragedy". Bestselling author of The Book Thief, Markus Zusak, describes it as "a novel of life and expiry and the people caught in between" and "John Green at his best". Pertaining to Green's writing throughout the volume, E. Lockhart, author of The Boyfriend List, says: "He makes me laugh and gasp at the dazzler of a sentence or the twist of a tale. He is ane of the all-time writers alive and I am seething with envy of his talent."[24] Time named The Fault in Our Stars every bit the No. 1 fiction book of 2012.[25] Kirkus Reviews listed it among the elevation 100 children's books of 2012.[26] It also made Us Today 's list of the summit ten books of 2012.[27] In 2013, the Edmonton Periodical named the book i of their "favourite books of the year".[28]

One notable unfavorable opinion appeared in the Daily Mail: the entire genre, as well equally the genre of immature-adult novels dealing with suicide and cocky-harm was criticized as being "distasteful" and inappropriate for their target audience of teens.[29] The Guardian criticized the piece, pointing out in particular that The Fault in Our Stars was chosen past The Guardian every bit that month'due south "teen book club choice" because "information technology's a gripping read, featuring two compelling characters, that deals sensitively and even humorously with a difficult situation without descending into mawkishness". In general, The Guardian faulted the Daily Mail for suggesting that the issues of illness, depression, and sexuality are inappropriate precisely "in the i identify where difficult subjects accept traditionally been virtually sensitively explored for teens: fiction written specifically for them".[29] For his role, in an interview for The Guardian, John Green said: "The thing that bothered me about The Daily Mail service piece was that it was a bit condescending to teenagers. I'm tired of adults telling teenagers that they aren't smart, that they tin can't read critically, that they aren't thoughtful, and I feel like that article made those arguments."[30]

Adaptations [edit]

English language accommodation [edit]

In Jan 2012, Fob 2000 Pictures optioned the rights to adapt the novel into a characteristic film.[1] Scott Neustadter, Michael H. Weber and Josh Boone wrote the adapted screenplay, with Josh Boone also serving as director.[31] Shailene Woodley stars as Hazel, while Ansel Elgort plays Augustus.[32]

Main photography took place between August and Oct 2013, with Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, doubling for the novel's setting of Indianapolis, and included some location shooting in Amsterdam.[31] The film was released on June 6, 2014, in the United States,[33] receiving positive reviews and grossing over $307million worldwide against its upkeep of $12one thousand thousand.[34] [35]

Hindi adaptation [edit]

In August 2014, India's Play tricks Star Studios appear it would adapt the novel into an Indian Hindi-language film, with the working title of Kizie Aur Manny. Producer Karan Johar was supposed to produce the film but eventually backed out.[36] Filming began in July 2018, in Jamshedpur,[37] with offset-time managing director Mukesh Chhabra guiding lead actor Sushant Singh Rajput (in his terminal film office[38]) and atomic number 82 actress Sanjana Sanghi (in her motion-picture show debut).[2] This accommodation ages upwards the characters and changes the chief setting to India. The championship of the movie was afterward changed to Dil Bechara (' The Helpless Heart ') and is named after one of the original songs written for the movie that the manager felt summed upwardly the message of the pic. Music composer A. R. Rahman has composed the background music and songs of the movie.[39]

The motion picture was scheduled to be released on May 8, 2020, after having been initially scheduled in November 2019, simply was later postponed due to the COVID-nineteen pandemic in India. It was released on July 24, 2020, on Disney+ Hotstar and like the American accommodation, met with mainly positive reviews.[2]

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