/lit/ - Literature

>"Augustus Waters," I said, looking up at him, thinking that you cannot kiss anyone in the Anne Frank House, and then thinking that Anne Frank, after all, kissed someone in the Anne Frank House, and that she would probably like nothing more than for her home to have become a place where the young and irreparably broken sink into love.
>"I must say," Otto Frank said on the video in his accented English, "I was very much surprised by the deep thoughts Anne had."
>And then we were kissing. My hand let go of the oxygen cart and I reached up for his neck, and he pulled me up by my waist onto my tiptoes. As his parted lips met mine, I started to feel breathless in a new and fascinating way. The space around us evaporated, and for a weird moment I really liked my body; this cancer-ruined thing I'd spent years dragging around suddenly seemed worth the struggle, worth the chest tubes and the PICC lines and the ceaseless bodily betrayal of the tumors.
>"It was quite a different Anne I had known as my daughter. She never really showed this kind of inner feeling," Otto Frank continued.
>The kiss lasted forever as Otto Frank kept talking from behind me. "And my conclusion is," he said, "since I had been in very good terms with Anne, that most parents don't know really their children."
>I realized that my eyes were closed and opened them. Augustus was staring at me, his blue eyes closer to me than they'd ever been, and behind him, a crowd of people three deep had sort of circled around us. They were angry, I thought. Horrified. These teenagers, with their hormones, making out beneath a video broadcasting the shattered voice of a former father.
>I pulled away from Augustus, and he snuck a peck onto my forehead as I stared down at my Chuck Taylors. And then they started clapping. All the people, all these adults, just started clapping, and one shouted "Bravo!" in a European accent. Augustus, smiling, bowed

>mfw a grown man wrote this garbage

>>15863173
>she would probably like nothing more than for her home to have become a place where the young and irreparably broken sink into love.
Blatant attempt to rewrite Frank as a romantic when she was an obsessed coomer.

>>15863173
>AND THEN EVERYBODY CLAPPED
holy based...

>>15863173
this sucks so fuckingbad lmfao

>>15862101
What is wrong with that book?

>>15864811
It’s for girls.

>>15864811
O like soap operas too faggot?

>>15863173
>american
>grown man

>>15862101
A classic

>>15864811

See >>15863173

>>15863192
>tfw am writing pregnant Anne Frank fanfiction and
trying to more accurately portray her as a dysfunctional person (rendered so by her surroundings, rather than by any kind of serious mental disorder) who turns to sex in an effort to drown out her misery and is otherwise a profoundly immature teenager who only has occasional moments of clarity

Hopefully I'll do a better job than Green

>>15863507
>>15864807


What bothers me is not so much that this shit is beyond crass and outright offensive (we're on 4chan after all) and that no person in their right fucking mind would do this unless they were looking to be dragged out of the building by security, it's that it served no purpose. Green could have just set this scene in a regular museum or a church service and it would have played out basically the same. He chose the Anne Frank House as the setting in a piss poor attempt to be "edgy" and therefore relevant. So his fellow bleeding heart liberals would point at it and go "look at how stunning and brave he is for doing that."

If Hazel had felt enormous shame and had some epiphany that Anne Frank must've realized at some point that she had very little time left and that Hazel herself has very little time left and that she needs to make the best of it, then the backdrop would've had actual meaning to it, but instead it gets played off as another feel-good moment.

>>15863173

>"Oi yoo teenaægeers wat iss Der meaning oof dis, keesing in der Anne Frank hoos?!"
>I stretched, and said "somehow, we've fallen in love"...
>Augustus, smiling, dabbed

>>15862101
i had sex with john green fans twice
how does that make you feel, op?

>>15866615
did you pretend to be him? that is evil.

>>15866644
ouch!

>>15866664
it's like literally the r-word. nobody wants to have slept with someone who has no money and looks like John Green.

>>15866684
yes, he got me good. beautiful indeed.