History Literature / TheFaultInOurStars

* AGoodNameForARockBand: The Hectic Glow, a band "so beautifully underground that they don't even exist".

* TheAlcoholic: [[spoiler: Peter Van Houten]]
* TheFilmOfTheBook: There are plans for one with a director hired and Hazel and Augustus cast.

* TheFilmOfTheBook: There will be one.
** Of course, there has been a promise of one for all of John's books, all went belly-up somehow, so we'll wait and see if this one makes it.
*** They have a director and Hazel and Augustus have been cast. Safe to say, this one is making it to the big screen.
**** Maybe.

''The Fault in Our Stars'' is the fourth solo novel by author JohnGreen, released on January 10th, 2012 . The book focuses on a girl named Hazel Grace Lancaster, who is suffering from terminal cancer and is forced by her parents to attend a support group, where she meets Augustus Waters, a boy in remission from cancer.

** They have a director and Hazel and Augustus have been cast. Safe to say, this one is making it to the big screen.

** More like "Extremely Philosophical People" are sexy.

* JumpingOnAGrenade: Augustus enjoys doing this in video games to save the fictional schoolchildren. In a more poetic sense, [[spoiler: when Hazel doesn't want him to love her because she is a "grenade" and her death will hurt him, he does anyways.]]

** Peter van Houten is "''Bay''-ter fahn Haotehn"
*** Lidewij Vliegenthart is "Li-de-vigh Fleehuhnthart"

* DidNotDoTheResearch : In-universe; Hazel misinterprets bot number theory and special relativity, and Augustus frequently misuses big words. This was intentional.

** Except Augustus isn't really a straight example in relation to Hazel, because she doesn't really buy into his grand heroic worldview. Instead of it being this grand revelation for her, she sees it as more staged and slightly off-putting (such as in his big rehearsed Dutch symbolism picnic/speech).

* RefugeInAudacity: Gus' speech to Monica's mom after [[spoiler: she catches him, Hazel and Isaac egging Monica's car, actually getting her to leave them alone to finish their vandalism.]]

* ShoutOut: 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 WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb, and this was the plot of their first special.

* Meaningfulname Lidewij Vliegenthart was supposedly named for Lidewij and Sanne Vliegenthart - two Dutch nerdfighters. Sanne's channel is http://www.youtube.com/user/booksandquills/

->''I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.''

Before the book was released, it reached #1 on the Amazon.com and Barnes & Noble bestseller lists in June 2011, shortly after its title was announced. Barnes & Noble had accidentally released more than a thousand copies prematurely, however, the fandom vowed not to spoil the book for those who had not received copies.

* ArtificialLimbs: Augustus has a prosthetic leg due to his osteosarcoma.

* DangerTakesABackSeat: [[spoiler: Peter Van Houten scares Hazel when he pops up in the back of her parents' van.]]

* FictionalDocument: "An Imperial Affliction".

* {{Jumping on a Grenade}}: Augustus enjoys doing this in video games to save the fictional schoolchildren. In a more poetic sense, [[spoiler: when Hazel doesn't want him to love her because she is a "grenade" and her death will hurt him, he does anyways.]]

* LiteraryAllusionTitle: The title refers to a line from WilliamShakespeare's Theatre/JuliusCaesar: "The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves, that we are underlings."

** Except Augustus isn't really a straight example in relation to Hazel, because she doesn't really buy into his grand heroic worldview. Instead of it being this grand revelation for her, she sees it as more staged and slightly off-putting (such as in his big rehearsed Dutch symbolism picnic/speech).

** More like "Extremely Philosophical People" are sexy.

* ReclusiveArtist: Peter Van Houten, much to Hazel's dismay.

* SoBeautifulItsACurse: Played for laughs in this exchange.

* ShoutOut: 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 PhineasAndFerb, and this was the plot of their first special.
* {{Star Crossed Lovers}}: Hazel refers to Augustus and herself as this several times, most notably in her [[spoiler: eulogy at the prefuneral]].
--> Hazel mentions that you say thank you a lot in a hospital (think ocular impairment) and an art museum where a Himalayan creature of his affection is employed (look over there!).

** Unintended, according to John Green.

* TooGoodForThisSinfulEarth: Kind of played straight, kind of subverted, with [[spoiler: Augustus.]]
** Mostly played straight [[spoiler: at the funeral]].
*** The Fault in Our Stars kind of deconstructs the majority of illness tropes.
*** Augustus even alludes to this on page 173. "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?"

* BaldWomen: Augustus compares Hazel to NataliePortman due to her hair.

* LiteraryAllusionTitle: The title refers to a line from WilliamShakespeare's JuliusCaesar: "The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves, that we are underlings."

* ManicPixieDreamGirl: played straight with Augustus Waters as a gender-inverted example, not only drawing Hazel out of her slump but helping her realize her dreams before the end.