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The Five People You Meet in Heaven. Through meeting five influential people in heaven, Eddie “Maintenance” comes to learn the principles of forgiveness. The Five People You Meet in Heaven embodies this theme of virtue by introducing Eddie’s last person, Tala, the most innocent of all. The author may have used Tala as Eddie’s fifth person in heaven because if the innocence she represents. Up until he met Tala, Eddie had the perception that his life was essentially meaningless. Eddie

person’s life, one will find obstacles to prevail. Some will jump, while others soar. What will you meet on your path and how will you approach it? Young Ju, from the novel “A Step from Heaven,” by An Na, and Mitch, from, “Tuesdays with Morrie,” by Mitch Albom, are two examples of characters who reveal their reactions to their adversity. They overcome quandaries through their unique characteristics, thus revealing their true selves. Young Ju reveals the fact that she is a dreamer and bravery. On the other

Life offers each and every one of us a large array of choices. Each choice is espoused with an equal consequence. Within the daily walk of life, the choices we make tend to make us. Although we seem to think that some may have an easier life than the one we have been chosen to lead, the truth of the matter is, most everyone will face some type of adversity in their lives. The difference between those who are always upset at the world and those who wake up motivated are the simple everyday choices

staying positive. On one occasion Morrie tells Mitch that in the mornings is when Morrie mourns. Morrie mourns the “insidious” disease and mourns what is lost. After that Morrie cries if needed, and thinks about all the good things still left in life(Albom 57). This is exactly how to balance inhumanity and humanity. People must always look at the good in every situation. In Night the characters tried to stay positive just as Morrie is trying to. Morrie once said, “make peace with living”(173). Morrie

The human race has always struggled with the simple task of being humane. This started with the people killing over land, all the way to terrible events, such as the Holocaust. Elie Wiesel does a great job in his book, Night, talking about some of the things the Nazis did. The Nazis treated the Jewish people in the most inhumane way history has ever seen. The book approaches this just by throwing it directly in one’s face. Elie has a lot to say about humanity and inhumanity, as does Morrie Schwartz

Tuesdays with Morrie a book written by Mitch Albom (1997) highlights the meaning of aging and death. Tuesdays with Morrie is a narration of Mitch’s favorite professor from college, Morrie Schwartz. Morrie was Mitch’s mentor when he did his thesis during his undergraduated degree and years after Mitch’s

Tuesdays With Morrie is a heart wrenching philosophical movie about a rekindled relationship between a former student Mitch Albom and college professor Morrie Schwartz, who’s currently in the process of dying from ALS. Every Tuesday Mitch comes to visit his college professor and learns a valuable lesson on some of the most complex problems life has to offer (For example, dependency). “When we’re infants we need other to survive, When were dying, we need others to survive. But here’s the secret.

In How to Read Literature like a Professor, Thomas C. Foster uses physical imperfections to tell a story about the character’s past. The writers use deformities to set the characters apart and give them a uniqueness. They try to make a thematic point by using deformities. Physical imperfections can symbolize the character’s morals. Some characters do not use their imperfections as a crutch. Foster states that, “It may strike you as cruel and unjust to equate physical deformity with character or

about waiting for the end. It’s about life and how to live life in the best way possible to make every single day worth to live. There should be a joy every day to be able to have a next day. But as the text passage in Tuesdays with Morrie, by Mitch Albom says “What if you only had one day, (twenty-four hours) perfectly healthy, I asked? What would you do?” (p.175). On my last day before my death I would not want to lie in my bed regretting and wishing what I could have done better in my life. I want

The Five People You Meet in Heaven is novel written by Albom Mitch. This story is about a man called Eddie also known as “Eddie Maintenance” who deceased on his 83rd birthday and grasps details about his lifetime by visiting five people in heaven who had an impact on his life. Throughout the book, the five people proclaims about lessons they have learned after their deaths and they also make Eddie understand why some events happened during his existence. There were three themes that has been propagated