Tuesday's with Morrie Analysis

“A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both” (Eisenhower). At times we tend to overlook the smaller precious things in life, when that happens we tend to lose ourselves. As a growing society we learn from our mistakes, we grow through our own troubles or through those we hold dear to us. Through comparative character analysis’s and contrasts of Mitch Albom in the novel, Tuesday’s with Morrie and Forrest Gump from the film ‘Forrest Gump’, the acquisition of knowledge is often a painful experience and through suffering, one can achieve various degrees of wisdom. In our society survival becomes a prominent force in our life, anything less than what is necessary is wishful thinking. Being able to overcome the difficult times, and use the experience as a milestone is strength. Most of the time the world seems against us love will be there, but with love comes pain, and the necessity to be able to forgive those for that pain. Life is too precious to always live with regrets, because when you lose a loved one suddenly, it’s impossible to turn back time. In all these forms you grow as a person, so when things get hard don’t run away, take the steps to move forward.

There are many things in life that we are unable to control. Adaptation: the action or process of adapting or being adapted. From a young age Mitch had learned this lesson when his uncle died and younger brother contracted cancer later on, and his brother was torn from the family to be eventually hospitalized twenty-four seven (24/7) overseas. Although both these events in Mitch’s life were terrible to him he kept pushing forward shuffling through life, “I buried myself in accomplishments because with accomplishments, I believed I could contro...

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...st strangled Forrest in the night, until Forrest reminded him that with or without legs he’s still Lt. Dan. Dan had then been forced to look for a supposed God after attending therapy. It was later, when Lt. Dan and Forrest were shrimp boating and a large storm happened that he could find and be at peace with said God. Forgiveness was also exampled near the end of the film when Jenny came back into Forrest’s life for the last time. She had also found herself, years of child abuse, drugs and alcohol, a near death experience, and 3 years after leaving Forrest in bed in the early hours of the morning was Jenny able to look into herself and be at peace with herself. When she asked Forrest to forgive her, through the numerous times she’s skipped out on him, forgiveness was instantaneous. It was much easier to forgive someone you’ve always wanted to spend you’re life with.