The Fault In Our Stars Book Analysis

Last summer, John Green’s first movie The Fault In Our Stars was a bestseller on the big screen. This past July, Green’s second movie, Paper Towns, came to the theaters. The book is an exciting story of the super popular Margo Roth Spiegelman taking the regular Q, who has an enormous crush on Margo, on the grandest adventure before disappearing into the sunrise. This mysterious disappearance causes Q to spend the rest of his senior year searching for her. Green’s literary enthusiasts found that his book was driven into an unintelligible wreckage in 20th Century Fox’s rendition of the mysterious and romantic story. While there are not many movies that exactly resemble their paper counterpart, this switch from paperback to the movie screen was just as much a switch of the entire plot. The plot of the movie was so mangled that it is scarcely recognizable in relation to the book. In the book, Green writes about Margo Roth Spiegelman’s last night with Quentin, or Q to his friends, involving eleven different adventures. While some of these adventures are simply revenge, they all help to bring Q out of his shell and make him more confident in himself. This confidence is …show more content…
The one adventure that is missed the most is the night’s finale of breaking into Sea World, which is an absolute disregard of authority for Margo. As for Q, the Sea World adventure shows that he was willing to go anywhere or do anything for Margo, even breaking the law and risk his admission to Duke University. Without these important events the movie viewers never realize exactly how attached Q is to Margo. The viewers only know that Q and Margo have been neighbors ever since they were children, so it seems weird without the viewer knowing about Q’s infatuation, when Margo disappears the next day and Q is distraught and willing to go to any lengths to find