Finding Hope In Disney's Film Tuesdays With Morrie

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In Disney’s movie Tomorrowland, the main character Casey Newton tells a story about two starving wolves in a fight, to the death. She asks her father who would win the fight? She answers her own question, “the one who is fed.” In this story, the two starving wolves represent joy and despair, if you feed the joy, only it will have the strength to live. Tuesdays with Morrie is a novel which recounts the last few months of Morrie Schwartz’, a retired college professor and who is suffering from ALS, life, as his favorite student who visits him every Tuesday for fourteen weeks. During their “classes” Mitch Albom (the author) and Morrie Schwartz discuss various aspects of life that people take for granted. During one of their meetings, Morrie emphasizes how important it is for us to feed our joy, “Take in as much joy as you can, whenever and however you can. You may find it in unpredictable places and situations.” I learned this lesson a few years ago when I started freshman year and all the people who I thought were my friends, wouldn’t talk to me anymore and everyone around me, were depressed. A few months after the start of freshman year, I had finally gotten used to having who I thought to be my friends, ignore me, and not knowing anyone else in the school. I found people who accepted my strong Catholic beliefs. …show more content…

It was about the world ending, because no one was finding joy in daily lives anymore. Then one optimist, just a young teenage girl, changes the outcome of the world’s future by finding the good things. The beautiful butterfly, the bad joke her brother told. After watching Tomorrowland, my whole world changed. Suddenly, everything seemed brighter. No longer tired, I stood up and walked to the kitchen, seeing my day in a different light. I realized that I was the one making everyone around me bored, I was refusing to enjoy

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