When Breath Becomes Air :Paul Kalanithi

"Rattling heartbreaking and ultimately beautiful , the too young DR. Kalanithi's memoir is the proof that the dying are the one who have the the most to teach us about the life ."

                                                                                    -Atul Gawande.

The book 'when breath becomes air ' reminds us that  death is waiting us without any mercy it take us without any consideration . this memoir mostly discuss about the mental state of a neurologist . the protagonist Paul Kalanithi approaches the time between life and the death .  The way which he shows us the intensity of death is far away from the others . He wrote this memoir while struggling with  IV metastatic lung cancer 

Paul Kalanithi had great intrest in literature , he expresses it in his book , childhood onwards he had read numerous books like , The count of monte cristo ,Edgar allan  poe,  Robinsoncruiso, Ivan hole ,gogo,The last of the mohincans dickens ,twains ,austins ,billybud , when he was 12 , his brother send him  his books  which he had read in college 

Paul kalanithi says that " books became my  closest confidants , finely , ground lenses providing new views of the world ". 

He says that literature makes a man more valuable than ever. 

LITERATURE IN THE VIEWS OF KALANITHI 

#. I still felt literature provided the best account of the life of the mind .

#. Literature not only illuminate others experience ,it provided , i believed , the richest material for moral reflection . 

#. I studied literature and philosophy to understand what makes life meaningful 

#. I had come to see language as an almost supernatural force existing between people , bringing our brains shielded in  centimeters - thick skulls into communion.