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Dying at 19
This novel is a biographical account of a girl Tullika and is narrated by her friend Meghna. The events occurring are from the last year of her school to first year of college. However, what transpires in Tullika's life over this period is the essence of the novel. The novel is not an account of a particular college or school. It is a simple story of change and what happens when that change is not favorable to a person. How uprooted and confounded a person becomes when he /she moves from a well known environment to a sheer different world. Tullika can represent one such person who made the wrong choices and how her choices not only affected her but all the people who were close to her. Meghna is one such person and she narrates the story which deals with the pain after she lost a dear one and also how she feels reponsible for her death.
The last lecture
A lot of professors give talks titled 'The Last Lecture'. Professors are asked to consider their demise and to ruminate on what matters most to them: What wisdom would we impart to the world if we knew it was our last chance? If we had to vanish tomorrow, what would we want as our legacy?When Randy Pausch, a computer science professor at Carnegie Mellon, was asked to give such a lecture, he didn't have to imagine it as his last, since he had recently been diagnosed with terminal cancer. But the lecture he gave, 'Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams', wasn't about dying. It was about the importance of overcoming obstacles, of enabling the dreams of others, of seizing every moment (because time is all you have and you may find one day that you have less than you think). It was a summation of everything Randy had come to believe. It was about living.In this book, Randy Pausch has combined the humour, inspiration, and intelligence that made his lecture such a phenomenon and given it an indelible form. It is a book that will be shared for generations to come.
