Abstract This paper tells the story of a young boy who is witnessing the physical demise of his father's friend and what this means in terms of loneliness and being alone. The paper is written as if the boy is narrating his thoughts and experiences and tells us how the boy compares the dying man's eventual death and the feelings of being alone that accompanies that death to the feelings of being alone that the narrator saw a young boy in his class experience, but for an entirely different reason.
From the Paper "It was rainy and dreary outside. I lost track of time, but it was early in the morning. It was monsoon season, and I was sitting in the corner of my living room watching my mom and dad. They looked different today. They were busy packing various items in a large shopping bag, and one of them was a book called, "How to Overcome a Fear of Death". I repeated the title of that book in my mind. The Fear of Death."
