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The novel-within-a-novel, Peter Van Houten鈥檚 An Imperial Affliction (AIA), functions as the text鈥檚 absent center. Its key feature is that it ends mid-sentence, with no resolution for its characters. Hazel obsesses over what happens to the mother, the hamster, etc. This is a meta-indexical device: Green uses AIA to index the problem of unlived aftermath . Cancer narratives typically end with death or remission, but AIA refuses both. In doing so, it mirrors the reality of the bereaved: the story continues, but without the protagonist. Augustus鈥檚 letter to Van Houten, which he writes prehumously (p. 295), completes the index by showing that some stories can only be finished by those left behind.
Fighting Against the Fate in John Green's The Fault in Our Stars published on Nepal Journals Online 3. The Symbolic Index (Motifs & Allegory) index of the fault in our stars
Throughout the novel, Green tackles complex themes such as: This is a meta-indexical device: Green uses AIA
The idea that some infinities are bigger than others (Hazel and Gus's "numbered days"). Augustus鈥檚 letter to Van Houten, which he writes
: Augustus uses his "Wish" from a foundation to take Hazel to Amsterdam.
