Morrie Rhetorical Analysis

“Challenges is what makes life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.” - Joshua J. Marine. Life is difficult and people need to accept it and in someway every thing in life is a challenge and people need to know how overcome and how live life with those challenges. Morrie teaches people to live life by showing how to accept death, that money isn’t everything, and how to accept aging.

This paragraph has Morrie teaching on how to accept death and how it’s as important as living. Morrie is afraid of his inevitable death but he knows he has to accept it because it will come and there is also something about death that makes Morrie feel bad for other people like the when he is watching the news and sees people that are across

the world people he doesn’t even know but sympathizes with them because they have something in common they’re both dying and are also afraid of death. So Morrie does know a thing or two about death. “If you accept that you can die at any time than you might not be as ambitious as you are.”(Albom #83). Death is going to happen to everyone whether they like it or not and sometimes they might not even be ready for it and the person that die might be very young or very old or they maybe they might just have someone very close them die which maybe be even worse. I have lost somebody and it was my baby cousin but when it did happen I was still quite young because it happened when I was probably in 4th or 5th grade and it was a really sad moment because it was the very first time I had someone close to me or that I know die, but obviously I wasn't the only sad one because everyone around who was there were very sad I don’t know how the parents could feel losing their own kid because the person who died wasn’t even a year old yet and it was my cousin and but I think the cause of her death was that she had a really bad heart problem. There was another time when somebody I knew died and it was pretty recent but it was an odd death because the person that die wasn’t old he didn’t have any health issues as far as know, but his funeral wasn’t as depressing because there was lot’s of singing and other things because he didn’t want his funeral to be super depressing because he wanted people to be happy like they were celebrating his birthday. So the experience with the death of my baby cousin and Morries thought that if someone accepts that death can happen at any moment which might lead to them being less ambitious it teaches me that I really shouldn’t care about death and to just do everything with lots of ambition.
In this paragraph Morrie teaches that people money isn't everything.

Morrie was never really a materialistic man and always loved the simple thing like singing, music, laughter, dancing, etc and now that he’s dying he cares even less and he says that people are so hungry for love that they start accepting substitutes and they start embracing it to and people except a sort of hug back, but it never works because people can’t substitute material things for love, tenderness or for even a sense of comradeship so Morrie doesn’t really care about money or material things.. “Money is not a substitute for tenderness.”(Albom #125). I agree with Morrie that money can’t replace tenderness because a lot during last summer I really wasn’t being with my family and friends I was just working and now that I think about it I was quite sad during that period and I felt very lonely and really having know one to make me feel something and it was something that I missed because I was always away from my family and friends and I also never really became friends with my coworkers I just wanted the money and because I wasn’t really ever with my family or friends and I all I wanted was money and that money made a lot more sadder and then it making me happy. During the last couple of weeks of summer I quit because I didn’t feel good alway being away from family and friends and when I did quit I remember there being a bigger change on how I felt because I felt something and it something good and I

didn’t feel lonely and I was happy and it was great because I got to see my family and friends more and got to do more activities with both of them and it was just a good time and like it. So with Morrie saying money is not a substitute for tenderness I know that I can't just let money take over my life and that I need to make more time for family and friends or else I’ll become cold and sad like during the summer need to at least find a balance.
In the last body paragraph Morrie teaches about how people need to accept aging and to just embrace it.

Morrie remembered the days when he was a teacher and having his students come in and out complaining how miserable and how hard their lives are and some even thinking about doing suicide and also when people are young they’re not wise and they really don’t know what's happening around them in their lives and it just miserable so Morrie likes aging actually Morrie embraces aging. ¨If you're always battling against getting older, you're always going to be unhappy, because it will happen anyhow.¨(Albom #118-119). Everything has a positive and a negative and I don’t mind aging but at the same time don’t want to get older I want to be a kid again and not have to worry about trying to get into college, or to get a job and what I’m going to do as a living in the future and other things that make life just a bit harder like this dumb essay but thinking about being younger and happy when everything was a lot much simpler and easier doesn’t help but I need to think about the positive and also stay positive and just embrace aging like Morrie because who knows thing might turn out better than expected. Everything has a positive and a negative and I don’t mind aging but at the same time don’t want to get older I want to be a kid again and not have to worry about trying to get into college, or to get a job and what I’m going to do as a living in the future and other things that make

life just a bit harder like this dumb essay but thinking about being younger and happy when everything was a lot much simpler and easier doesn’t help but I need to think about the positive and also stay positive and just embrace aging like Morrie because who knows thing might turn out better than expected. So with Morrie saying that when being young people aren't very wise or smart and most of the time are miserable because they have a lot more problems and that people should just embrace aging and I agree with Morrie and I understand what Morrie is saying I know that from here it's going to harder and more stressful with more responsibilities and the problems I have now are probably nothing compared to what's coming in the future but I got to deal with it and embrace aging because if don’t I it’ll just be harder and I’ll be unhappier. So I guess this is what I learned about life.
So this was about how Morrie teaches people on how to live life by showing how to accept death, that money isn’t everything, and to accept aging. Death is as important as living and people need to accept it and how money can’t replace tenderness and that we need love and people and people need to embrace aging or they'll be miserable. “Challenges is what makes life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.” - Joshua J. Marine. In a way every topic Morrie talked about was a challenge and he also gave help on how to overcome those challenges.which has gave life a bit more of a meaning.