Analysis Of The Last Lecture By Randy Pausch

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Life is like a jarring mountain. Life will make you come across many curveballs and you will need to hit back. Randy Pausch repeatedly shows how he never gave up through the various aspects of his life in which he struggled. He always reached to places people have not and proved them wrong. This is very important millions of other people aiming to accomplish something prodigious. In the Last Lecture, Randy Pausch tries to convince us to believe that adversities happen and when they do, we must stay with it and fight it with alacrity being that, how Randy Pausch overcame rejection, dealt with ten tumors and taught people to treat the disease, not the symptom. In the Last Lecture it stated how many people have overcame rejection, this molded …show more content…
Randy has trounced over many issues but nothing is like having ten tumors. Since he was a determined person, many would be depressed and worried each day, but Randy was different, he wanted the world to know how he lived his life in just three months, he was resolute to do his speech and to help keep his words in his children’s hearts forever. “An injured lion wants to know if he can still roar ... To prove I still had the fortitude to perform? Was it a limelight lover 's urge to show off one last time? The answer is yes to all fronts" (8). Referring to the previous quote, shows a concealed meaning in how Randy didn 't give up and dealt with the ten tumors he had. Instead of closing his eyes he widened the to see paths that he can take to achieve newer heights before he died. Just like how Randy had cancer millions others had had it too, but a huge majority of those people never cross the wall aka cancer. Brick walls isn 't a physical brick wall but it is something that impedes personal freedom. Many brick walls are hard to break and they are there for a reason. Randy elucidated his point, by showing how he dealt with the cancer by overcoming it as he explains in this quote. "The brick walls are there for a reason. They 're not to keep us out. The brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something" (52). This quote expresses how much Randy really wanted to do his presentation therefore he had to go over the brick wall. Many people might not have cancer but always quit and wait for the move by itself. Well, it doesn 't work that way. If you want to accomplish something, problems may come in your way, but it matters most in how you trample than just waiting for the problem to end. Randy used many problems he had in his life and brought meaning to it by teaching others that you shouldn 't quit, and look for opportunities no matter what the problem

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