That's Jack!

I think it interesting that he responded to losing his favorite dog by taking on his name. It seems so characteristic for C.S.Lewis to find some positive way of dealing with death at such an early age, seeing all the death and grief that was ahead: His mother's cancer and death when he was only 9, his friend's death at 19, and his long awaited wife's cancer and death at 60 after only a short marriage. These in addition to caring for his friends mother and sister for so many years until the mother's institutionaliztion and death, his father's death, and his brother's binge drinking, he learned to roll with the punches. For him, I think he did more coping than grieving, keeping a very emotionaly detatched responce until his wife, Joy, challenged and changed him. In his book/diary "A Grief Observed" he met Grief head on, to the betterment of us all.