death be not proud

We were asked to choose a book dealing with death, dying, and mourning and analyze it using what we have learned in class and in our text. I chose to read “Death Be Not Proud” a memoir, by John Gunther because it deals with a true to life struggle with cancer of the brain. This cancer occurs in a boy who is only seventeen when it kills him. The book is his fathers memoir of his brave, spirited and persistent young sons struggle through it all and his remarkable will to survive. It also goes through many things that we covered in class such as the funeral process and rituals people may go through.
John Gunther Jr. was born on November 14, 1929 and led a very fulfilling life all the way up until his death. John was a very intelligent teen who loved school and making his parents proud. He was also the type of person who never thought of himself and put everyone ahead of him. Johnny was very much involved in his studies and was always up for creating new ideas in the fie...