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Life Before Dying: A Brief Analysis Of Jeffrey's Life

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What I was most surprised about by reading this book, was when Jeffrey got cancer. Jeffrey was a normal five-year-old kindergarten student who was living his life with cancer, until one day he had felled off the stool and his nose started bleeding. His parents knew that this wasn’t a normal nose bleed when the bleeding wouldn’t stop at all. Jeffrey and his mom go to the hospital to see what is wrong, they found out that Jeffrey had leukemia. That change everything in the Alpher's house, Steven Jeffrey older brother, thought that Jeffrey having cancer was some kind of joke, and that Jeffrey really didn’t have cancer. Jeffrey’s dad didn’t know how to handle this as well either. Steven had to visit his counselor whenever he wanted to talk about

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