Johnny Gunther Sparknotes

This book is about a father (John Gunther) who wrote a memoir about his son (Johnny Gunther) who was diagnosed with Glioblastoma Multiform Brain Tumor in April 1945 and passed away on June 30th 1947 because of his tumor.
The four main characters in this book are John (dad) Fransice (mom) Johnny (son) and the doctors that are helping Johnny extend his life expectancy.
The setting in this book is in New York City where Johnny’s main hospital for his treatments is located.
In this book Johnny is a child that excels in all of his classes, he is the child that all teachers want to teach, smart, attentive, always asking questions always doing what he needs to do for school and that is his main priority really the only thing that he cared about. One day he was at school and he went to the nurses office complaining of a headache and the nurse immediately called Johnny’s mother and told her to take Johnny to the doctor because he never complained of pain to get out of class or in general so they knew that something really bad must have been going on, well they waited a couple of days to see ...