Tuesdays With Morrie Character Analysis

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As Kevin Conroy said, “Everyone is handed adversity in life. No one’s journey is easy. It’s how they handle it that makes people unique.” This quote is a very truthful one. I have a hard journey just as everyone else does. One should not judge someone else for anything that they do. One does not know what that person is going through. Never step on a person’s toes, even if what they say is wrong. It is not wrong to correct them but it is wrong make fun of them or talk about them behind their back. In Tuesdays with Morrie, Morrie is facing some adversity. Morrie was diagnosed with ALS and does not have much longer to live. One thing is certain though, Morrie never loses his faith. Truly, it could be taken that Morrie gains more faith as he slowly withers away. For fourteen Tuesdays, Mitch would come and visit Morrie. It was Morrie’s final class that he taught. …show more content…

In the book Night, Elie and his whole family are taken from their home and sent to a concentration camp. Upon arrival, Elie’s mother and sister are taken to the crematorium, and are burned to a pile of ash. Elie and his father make the selection and are sent to a labor camp to be worked almost to death. They get very little food and one set of clothes that never get washed. The only thing that keep Elie and his father alive for so long is each other. After the selection, when they are assigned to their work areas, Elie and his father get to stay together. “All right. Your father will work here, next to you”(Wiesel 50). In the winter of 1944, Elie’s father started to get sick. As time went on, he only got sicker. Finally on the morning of January 29, 1945, when Elie woke up, he only lie next to another sick person. They took his father away to the crematorium before daybreak. Elie could not even weep about his father’s death. After all of the death that he had saw, he could not even weep(Weisel 112). Elie went through a really tough time while in the

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