A Young Man's Journey with AIDS

Knowing nick in life did not take away the impact this book had on me. It tells his story and does it well. I commend Nicks mother for her courage in taking the time to write this story to share with everyone. I can only hope that this story has as much of an impact on people as Nick did in life.

In this book Nick Trevor has found out that he has AIDS. His mother a strict catholic comes to terms with her son and both open up to a new way of thinking. They find the answer to the question when bad things happen to people, Will that make the person bad?This book is different in that the voice of the writer switches from Nick to his mother. His mother being the true author works to write the book as if her son had written it himself. I found this different and interesting.I was really impressed with this book on the way that Nick's mother shows how she accepted the fact that she would have to bury her son. Luellen, Nick's mother, was a strict catholic but supported her son when he was sick and needed help the most. The book takes you through both Nick and Luellen's saga as he slowly slips away. I liked that the book told the story of what happened not just the facts that AIDS is deadly and very painful to the person and the family. I think that Luellen through the book portrays a normal person in a changing world, at the start she knew very little about AIDS and what medicine could be taken. She has general stereotypes about AIDS victims and has to break through them so that she can help her son. In the book page 98 Luellen is meeting with a doctor and the doctor wants to know what she thinks about her son possibly being gay and waits for a reaction. "Look, Doctor, no parent would want their child to be homosexual. In this world, all other things being equal, the life of a homosexual is much more difficult row to hoe than the life of a heterosexual...But if my son is gay, he's gay, and I would love him just the same." So as this shows Luellen accepts what has happened to her son and works to help him enjoy his life and helps Nick fight until the end.I really enjoyed the book and think that it would be something great for everyone to read. One area of improvement would be that sometimes it switches between who is writing and makes it hard to understand. Other than that, I think it is a great new look to a very modern topic and something that everyone could benefit from reading.