An Imperial Affliction Chapter Summary

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Hazel Grace Lancaster is a 16 year old girl from Indianapolis, Indiana that has terminal lung cancer. One day at a Support Group, for people with cancer between the ages of 12 and 18, she catches a very good looking 17 year-old boy staring at her. She finds out his name is Augustus Waters and he had osteosarcoma that took off his right leg. He is currently cancer free and is just at the Support Group per his best friend Isaac's request because Isaac has a rare eye cancer and he has to get his eye taken out. After Support Group Augustus and Hazel stand outside waiting on Hazel’s mom when Augustus pulls out a cigarette. Hazel give him a disgusted look and asks if he thinks that’s cool. He says”It doesn’t kill you unless you light it. It’s …show more content…
Yea frustrating. This is the book that she gave Augustus to read. Since she was diagnosed with cancer her dream has been to meet this Peter Van Houten fellow, she has written him so many letters, but he never seems to respond. So after Gus reads it and finds out that it stops in the middle of the sentence he calls Hazel truly upset about the injustice she goes over to his house to see a very upset Isaac. He is going fully blind and his girlfriend broke up with him. Augustus gives him his old trophies to break.. At the end of chapter 4 Augustus quotes AIA and says “ Pain Demands To Be Felt” This is a serious quote that goes through the whole …show more content…
When he does call her he freaks out about how the book ends. Then he tells her that he has e-mailed Peter Van Houten and he got a response. Hazel asks for it then proceeds to e-mail him. She asks Van Houten for answers then she calls Augustus again and they have a very long conversation. At the end of the conversation Augustus says “Okay” Hazel repeats “Okay” Then He says “Maybe, okay will be our always” and with that it starts the iconic “Okay?’’ “Okay”. Then a few days later Gus takes Hazel on a ‘date’ and offers to take her to Amsterdam to meet Peter Van Houten and get the answers she needs. Then she gets water in her lungs a few days later and has to go to the hospital and she finds out she’s not allowed to go to Amsterdam because of that

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