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Have you ever read a book and thought, "Whoa, this sounds like my life"? If you feel that way about The Fault in Our Stars , you're in for some major bookception: the main character, Hazel, is reading a book whose protagonist's struggles match her own.

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The Fault In Our Stars a la Shmoop. Imagine reading a book that ends in the middle

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of sentence. It would be like your favorite show getting

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canceled in the middle of the last episode. That's exactly what happens to Hazel in A

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Fault in Our Stars.

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When her favorite book, An Imperial Affliction, ends mid-sentence...

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...she's so upset that she takes a transatlantic journey to find the real ending.

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Why does she take this trip?

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Why doesn't she just move on and read something else that actually has an ending?

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Or write some fan-fiction? Maybe it's just plain ol' curiosity.

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Wouldn't you want to know how your favorite book ends? You know... before the movie comes

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out? Or maybe it's the fact that Hazel is just

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sick of uncertainty.

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She already has plenty to worry about: Will she die? Will her friend Gus die? Will the

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sun go supernova and we all die?

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Perhaps her search for the ending to An Imperial Affection is just the search for some certainty

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in her life. But then there's the fact that Hazel's story

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is basically the same as Anna's, the main character in An Imperial Affliction.

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It's almost like the author was watching Hazel and recording her life.

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Haven't you ever read a book and thought the main character... was you?

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Hazel wants to know what will happen to her family after she dies, and she seems to be

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looking for those answers in Anna's story.

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She wants to know that Anna's mom will be okay, just like she wants to know that her

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own parents and loved ones will be okay. So, what's the real reason Hazel goes on this

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epic adventure?

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Is it because, like all of us, she's just curious?

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Or is she looking for certainty in an uncertain world?

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Or does she see her own story in Anna's and wants to discover her own fate?

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Or maybe JetBlue just had a killer deal on round-trip tickets to Amsterdam...

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Shmoop amongst...

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<<pause>>

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...yourselves.

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