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* AuthorsSavingThrow: John Green was disappointed in himself for failing to get across the fact that his ''depiction'' of the main characters' antics did not constitute an ''endorsement'' to many readers. The series adds a number of scenes that make it clear that their behavior is ''not'' something to emulate, particularly two blistering [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech "The Reason You Suck" Speeches]] in Episode 6: the first from Lara to Miles [[spoiler:when she breaks up with him over [[HonorBeforeReason how seriously he's taking the school's ridiculous code of silence even though it won't even be relevant to his life in just a year and a half]]]], and the second from Starnes to The Colonel [[spoiler:where he informs Chip that by letting his vengeance on the Weekday Warriors escalate to outright crimes, he not only [[AllForNothing failed to hurt them in any meaningful way]], but also [[HoistByHisOwnPetard gave their racist parents all the justification they needed to have HIM kicked out of the school]]]].
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** Instead of the symmetrical before/after structure, the novel originally jumped to different out-of-order time periods every chapter, ''[[{{Film/500DaysOfSummer}} (500) Days of Summer]]''-style, because of, in John's words, "important literary reasons." He's now [[OldShame embarrassed about this]].
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** Instead of the symmetrical before/after structure, the novel originally jumped to different out-of-order time periods every chapter, ''[[{{Film/500DaysOfSummer}} ''[[{{Film/FiveHundredDaysOfSummer}} (500) Days of Summer]]''-style, because of, in John's words, "important literary reasons." He's now [[OldShame embarrassed about this]].
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** Instead of the symmetrical before/after structure, the novel originally jumped to different out-of-order time periods every chapter, ''Film/500DaysOfSummer''-style, ''[[{{Film/500DaysOfSummer}} (500) Days of Summer]]''-style, because of, in John's words, "important literary reasons." He's now [[OldShame embarrassed about this]].
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* BeamMeUpScotty: A popular quotation from the book is ''"The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive"''. This is never found verbatim in the novel; it's probably paraphrased from a sentence found near the last chapter.
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* BeamMeUpScotty: A popular quotation from the book is ''"The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive"''. This is never found isn't present verbatim in the novel; it's it was probably paraphrased into a more quotable form from a sentence found near the last chapter.
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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: The tenth anniversary edition includes excerpts from the very first draft, revealing a number of differences from the finished product:
** The first draft was titled ''Misremembering Alaska''.
** Pudge was initially written to be a disaffected DeadpanSnarker, with a coarser, more cynical attitude.
** The Colonel was originally written to be attracted to Alaska alongside Pudge.
** The novel featured the motif of a discarded cicada skin gifted to Pudge from his mother, which was inspired by a real gift Green received as a teenager.
** The [[spoiler:funeral scene]] took the longest to get right; originally, Pudge never even attends. Later iterations featured [[spoiler:Alaska's burial]] which was eventually cut.
** Instead of the symmetrical before/after structure, the novel originally jumped to different out-of-order time periods every chapter, ''Film/500DaysOfSummer''-style, because of, in John's words, "important literary reasons." He's now [[OldShame embarrassed about this]].
** The first draft was titled ''Misremembering Alaska''.
** Pudge was initially written to be a disaffected DeadpanSnarker, with a coarser, more cynical attitude.
** The Colonel was originally written to be attracted to Alaska alongside Pudge.
** The novel featured the motif of a discarded cicada skin gifted to Pudge from his mother, which was inspired by a real gift Green received as a teenager.
** The [[spoiler:funeral scene]] took the longest to get right; originally, Pudge never even attends. Later iterations featured [[spoiler:Alaska's burial]] which was eventually cut.
** Instead of the symmetrical before/after structure, the novel originally jumped to different out-of-order time periods every chapter, ''Film/500DaysOfSummer''-style, because of, in John's words, "important literary reasons." He's now [[OldShame embarrassed about this]].
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* BeamMeUpScotty: A popular quotation from the book is ''"The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to [[spoiler:forgive]]"''.forgive"''. This is never found verbatim in the novel; it's probably paraphrased from a sentence found near the last chapter.
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* BeamMeUpScotty: A popular quotation from the book is ''"The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to [[spoiler:forgive]]"''. This is never written or said word-for-word in the novel; however it is the central theme of [[spoiler:Pudge's final essay]].
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* BeamMeUpScotty: A popular quotation from the book is ''"The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to [[spoiler:forgive]]"''. This is never written or said word-for-word found verbatim in the novel; however it is it's probably paraphrased from a sentence found near the central theme of [[spoiler:Pudge's final essay]].last chapter.
--> "He was gone, and I did not have time to tell him what I had just now realized: that I forgave him, and that she forgave us, and that we had to forgive to survive in the labyrinth."
--> "He was gone, and I did not have time to tell him what I had just now realized: that I forgave him, and that she forgave us, and that we had to forgive to survive in the labyrinth."
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* SavedFromDevelopmentHell: The adaptation had been in DevelopmentHell for damn near a decade. The long wait probably explains why there are many scenes from the book recreated very faithfully onscreen (although there is some considerable amount of AdaptationDeviation or AdaptationExpansion), as well as the fact that the series is set in the TurnOfTheMillennium (as the novel was).
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* TroubledProduction: Has been plaguing the film adaptation of the book for the just over ''10 years'' since it originally came out (see main page).
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* WriteWhatYouKnow: The Culver Creek Preparatory School was closely based on the real life [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdjmNPlePVE Indian Springs School]] (Birmingham, Alabama), a boarding school John Green attended. The Bufriedos were real, and they were was even less healthy than the book made them sound.
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* CreatorBacklash: [[http://fishingboatproceeds.tumblr.com/post/22781844944/the-question-of-the-candle John Green is not fond of the book's cover]], stating that it was supposed to have just the smoke and no candle, [[ViewersAreMorons but people at bookstore chains complained that the smoke looked like cigarette smoke]]. When the book was re-released for its 10th anniversary, the candle was removed so just the smoke was visible, the way Green wanted it from the start.
* WriteWhatYouKnow: The Culver Creek Preparatory School was closely based on the real life [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdjmNPlePVE Indian Springs School]] (Birmingham, Alabama), a boarding school John Green attended. The Bufriedos were real, and they werewas even less healthy than the book made them sound.
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** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lht_JH2xi6w Also, John Green may or may not have orchestrated a prank involving a stripper during his high school days.]]
