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The Last Lecture By Randy Rausch Analysis

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In the book titled “THE LAST LECTURE” by Randy Rausch, the protagonist of the story is Randy Pausch and the antagonist is pancreatic cancer. One page 4 chapter 1 it states that “That week, however, I got the news: My most recent treatment hadn’t worked. I had just months to live”. In that quote, it started a conflict that was not only alarming to his wife Jai and to his three kids, Logan, Dylan, and Chloe but alarming to himself to know that his time was coming to an end, and he is approaching his deathbed. Randy and Jai decided to take their concerns to a psychotherapist, Michele Reiss, She specializes in helping families when one member is confronting a terminal illness. Jai felt very disquiet as she was in the psychotherapist room because there is a concern Jai has that has been Pestering her mind all day, and that is that Randy has to fly to Pittsburgh the day before Jai’s forty-first birthday which happens to be the last birthday he will be spending together as husband and wife. I believe the major conflict in this story is the fact that Randy only has months to live and he is leaving a big family behind who need a husband and who needs a father figure in their life.
In the book titled “THE LAST LECTURE” by Randy Pausch, the setting of the story is a newly bought house in Virginia. The reason why the family moved is …show more content…

Just like in the movie ME AND EARL AND THE DYING GIRL filmed in 2006, even though Rachel Kushner was diagnosed with cancer she was still just as positive of her terminal illness just as Randy is. Randy has experienced a lot of changes in his lifetime, like on

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