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Theme Of The Last Lecture By Randy Pausch

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In The Last Lecture, Randy Pausch suffers from the fatal pancreatic cancer. He intricately describes his childhood dreams and how he achieved them step-by-step. After reading Randy Pausch’s heartfelt book, I was able to deduce the theme that “in life our greatest accomplishments come from never settling and never giving up.”
Pausch supports this theme throughout his story, as he gives real life experiences. In Chapter 16, “Romancing the Brick Wall,” Pausch mentions the analogy of brick walls to challenges in life. He mentions these brick walls only being “there to stop the people who don’t want it bad enough” (Pausch 19). The brick walls in Randy Pausch’s life occured when he needed to show himself apart from everyone else. Pausch describes

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