Finally (adverb modifier), due to overcoming the burden cancer has brought on the protagonist and his family, they have converted their lives from sorrow into peace and acceptance. In Ron Rindo’s short story “Learning to Drive”, the protagonist and his family travel through the passage of time withstanding the struggles life brings them, and from experiencing the stages of grief they learn to move on and reach acceptance. The protagonist and his family are grieving (gerund) due to his downward battle with cancer causing them to spiral into the stages of grief. The first stage being denial, is displayed most prominently by Sarah and Elaine in which Sarah cannot accept her father’s situation as she elucidates with her inappropriate gifts. Elaine