The Blockbuster Spirituality of John Green’s “The Fault In Our Stars”
…She collapses at the top of the stairs and recovers to view the Frank family’s hidden refuge. Ultimately, overcome by the emotion of their journey, she and Augustus share their first kiss there. The surrounding tourists applaud this performance of young love. When I read this scene for the first time, the literary scholar in me kicked in: “Oh no,” I thought. “It’s ‘redemptive’ Anne Frank again.” When I watched it in the movie theater, my first th…
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