Morrie's Childhood

Morrie’s Childhood
A girl named ,Oxana Malaya, was abandoned by her alcoholic parents when she was born. She grew up around dogs. She was seven years old when she was found, by then, she didn't have the ability to talk and she had no social skills. She would only act like a dog, barking, sleeping, and even cleaning herself like a dog. The environment a person is raised in will develope how a person acts, responds, and even thinks. There are three main ideas on how the environment shapes a person's behavior. The abandoned children funds says “Shockingly, there are over 20 million homeless or abandoned children in the world today - a majority of them are orphans.”The first is your own experiences can change your neuron's response. Connectomes

or the neural diagram of the brain, it also goes by the name wiring diagram, can grow and change over time.

You can even lose parts of your connectomes. These developments have been linked to people’s environments. It is true that certain people are born with tendies such as being more aggressive, but if the baby is raised in a relaxed pleasant environment growing up his connectomes change so he no longer has a tendency since that connectomes never had time to evince and grow. The second is gender conditioning, certain genders are raised up to be and act certain ways. The third is children being raised with little or no human contact. This can lead to feral children such as Oxana Malaya. Tuesday with Morrie, written by Mitch Albom, talks about many sensitive topics. Morrie, the teacher that you follow throughout the book, shares many of his personal aphorisms and philosophies with the reader. Many of these personal values, Morrie stands by were flourished by the environment he was raised in as a child and they affected him greatly. His behavior has been affected by his family such as: his mother, stepmother,

father, and brother.
Morrie’s biological affected him tremendously.

According to kids data center, “24,444,000 kids leave with a single parent.” Morrie’s biological mother died when he was eight. Being the only english speaker, Morrie, read the telegraph first and was the one to tell his family that his mother had passed. This was a very hard time for Morrie. Morrie said on page eighteen ”Accept the past as the past, without denying it or discarding it.” Morrie had to accept at a young age that people come then go and that he couldn't change anything about it. His father wouldn't let him talk about his biological mother which is explaining the second part of the quote, he decided it was better to talk about your hardships. He decided that you shouldn't try to ignore it or act like it never happened. In the book, Morrie cries over his dead mother as an elderly man. He still allows himself to feel deeply rooted emotions even after it happened many years ago. His mother's death also made Morrie very sympathetic when hearing about other people’s pain. Morrie can relate to their pain so he understands their tremendous distress. This is one reason why Morrie is immensely caring. He knows people can have a lot of pain even if they try not to show it, so he shows everyone love. This is why he says “What’s wrong with being second?” because he believes everyone is entitled to the same love. This is shown in the book throughout Morrie’s and Mitch’s friendship as adults. Losing his mother at a young age

was challenging for Morrie but it taught him lessons that would last a lifetime.
Eva, Morrie’s stepmother, gave Morrie the love the love he always needed. In the article by Step Family Foundation, “The average marriage in America lasts only seven years.” Charlie remarried Eva soon after Morrie’s biological mother died. She would tuck him in, kiss his forehead, and was the only adult who would show him love since his mother passed away. This made Morrie’s very nurturing, after spending so much time as a child wanted to be hugged and kissed. Morrie knew from that day when he was an adult he wanted to make sure that his children would never have to feel like they were alone. It was said on page forty “Love always wins.” Morrie was taught this when Eva showed him affection. He was much happier when he was shown love. He learned love is a very important emotion and everyone should feel it. Eva also believed strongly in education, which Morrie started to believe too as he became a teacher. Eva was a very important person in Morrie’s childhood.
Morrie’s father’s absence in his live made Morrie never take anything for granted and showed Morrie exactly how he didn’t want to act as a father. His father rarely talked to his two sons and would never show them affection. This made Morrie feel blessed when Eva came into his life because she showed more love than he could ever ask for and more. In the book, Morrie’s father, Charlie, brought him to a factory he was hoping Morrie would be able to work at too. After seeing the conditions of the factory Morrie vowed to one of his values, he would never get money out of the hard work and sweat of others. Charlie wasn’t vividly in Morrie’s life but it showed Morrie an example of what he didn’t want to do as an adult.
Morrie’s brother, David, taught him a life lesson on responsibility and showed him how to forgive. One day when Morrie and David were both little boys they played together in the rain. The next day David could no longer walk, David suffered from polio. Being a little boy Morrie didn’t understand and blamed himself. Morrie felt like he needed to take responsibility. During this time, Morrie, started going to church and trying to forgive himself and pray that his brother would get better. On page 164 it shows a big value Morrie had learned, “Forgive yourself before you die. Then forgive others.” After seeing David’s inability to use his legs Morrie learned to cherish what you have because you never know how long you will have it. Which shows when Morrie can no longer take care of himself as an adult. David showed Morrie how to forgive yourself and to accept things that you couldn’t change.
Everyone’s childhood’s affect how people act immensely, they way children are raised, how much love they are shown, and the experiences people have can last a their entire lives. Morrie has a challenging and rough childhood, but it molded him in a amazing person. Every person in Morrie’s childhood affected his behavior as an adult. Morrie has strong values and philosophies that were all mended by his childhood and experiences. Morrie learned many life lessons through during his childhood.