Hazel shares with Augustus the Emily Dickinson poem where Peter Van Houten had found the title of his book. Read the poem. Explain how the line and the poem, itself, represents Van Houten’s book (the title of his book: An Imperial Affliction - talks about cancer). There's a certain slant of light,

On winter afternoons, That oppresses, like the weight

Of cathedral tunes.

Heavenly hurt it gives us;

We can find no scar,

But internal difference

Where the meanings are.

None may teach it anything,

'Tis the seal, despair,-

An imperial affliction

Sent us of the air.

When it comes, the landscape listens,

Shadows hold their breath;

When it goes,'tis like the distance

On the look of death.