His honestly was were he got a role in movie industry, not only his honesty but his great passion and talent of writing. He became America's most best critic we have ever had. The whole world had lot of opinions on his personality, they way he acted, to the way he vertebral spoke to others. It was always a fifty-fifty with the guy, either people liked him or they did not, Nevertheless Elbert never really cared on how people perspective him , his writing was the only thing that matter. When he got diagnosed with thyroid cancer in his salivary gland, doctors had to take pieces of his jaw out, eventually all out. When learned he could not talk anymore or eat or drink regularly he never once took what happened to him as , why me?, he took control and made the best of it. For that right there, that should be what life value should be defined as . Making the best out of things, being happy or trying to achieve to be happy. With no happiness you become depressed . Value of life should be defined as what you achieve in life,from something small to something big, but it is all meaningful to you, and that is what should really