Tuesdays With Morrie 4/27/-5/1

Prompt: Based on the 6 Tuesdays you have read about in Tuesdays with Morrie, choose which topic (The World, Feeling Sorry For Yourself, Regrets, Death, Family, or Emotions) that has had the most impact on you or inspired you. On your blog discuss the importance of this topic with your own opinions, including textual evidence (direct quotes) from the book. 

To be honest every chapter has been inspiring. If I had to choose one of them it would probably be The Forth Tuesday when they talked about the death. I personally don't like it because they talked about death but because of a statement Morrie made "most of us all walk around as if we're sleepwalking." So this is basically saying that we are so caught up in are normal day lives that we don't fully appreciate life. it might sound kind of weird at first but when you start thinking about it you actually start realizing that you are not living life to the fullest. This quote also stuck to me because I personally can relate what I mean by this is that some day’s I just wake up, go to school, do my homework, watch TV/practice, then go to sleep. That is not living life to the fullest when I think of living life to the fullest I think of going on adventures, pushing myself, and having a family. Right now I don't feel like that’s being complete I know I cant start my own family right now but the pushing myself and adventures part I feel like I should be completing. I feel like this is true because I live a very simple life right know maybe when I grow older my life might become more interesting but this quote really got me thinking about it. 

The next most inspiring chapter is the Family chapter. What Morrie says in this chapter really hit me hard it really got me thinking. He says "without love we are birds with broken wings". I think this quote effected so much because it is so true love is one of the main things that drive a person to live. To find love is one of the main goals in a persons life. So to not have must make someone feel like they like they have not place in this world. These are the two most inspiring chapters in this books so far.   

Tuesdays with Morrie

     So fair Tuesdays With Morrie has been a great book. To be honest when we first started this book I was not that excited about it. I personally am not that fond of these kinds of books I am more interested in the action kind of books. After reading the first 61 pages I have found myself actually enjoying this book. I feel the reason why I like this book more then I thought I would is because the book has some humor in it also. It is not just and emotional book that were they talk about death and emotional things the whole time. Overall I am enjoying this book so far

     I like most other people have a bucket list. A bucket list is basically a list of things that a person wants to accomplish before they die. They are pretty much like goals but the only difference between them is that a bucket list is not really as important as goals. What I am trying to say is that there is no real pressure to accomplish them. I have never maid a bucket list in my life because I don't like thinking about death right now but when you get older it is probably important to have one. I say this because when you get old and you know you are going to die a bucket list can help because it could give them a purpose.  

Bucket List:

• Travel to a place in every continent
• Meet my grandchildren  
• Skydive 
• drive a Ferrari
• have a beach house 
• finish college 
• pitch on a major league field
• go to Hawaii 
• go on a cruise ship
• go to the tallest building in the world 
• learn spanish 
• travel to outer space
• go skiing 
• zip lining 
• have kids 
• go on a safari 
• scuba diving 
• go to the olympics (either watching or participating) 
• meet a president 
• become a millionaire
• get married  

Night Week of 3/30/15

Prompt: How Elie's Experiences during the holocaust change him as a person
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      Elie's changed physically and mentally during his time in the concentration camp. He really did change from the begging to the book when he was free to the end when he was liberated from the camp. He changed a lot physically due to the lack of food and the poor living conditions but I feel that he changed a lot more mentally then physically. I say this because living in the camps was a huge change from living in a safe clean home. I mean he was so used to living in a safe place with his family and in good conditions so it must have affected him greatly. Overall the two biggest changes that I noticed in him was the belief of his religion and the relationship with his father.

      In the beginning of the book he was fully into his religion. He even went against his father because his father wanted him to focus on his studies but Elie instead wants to learn more about his religion. Elie also compared life with his religion for example when he said “Why did I pray? A strange question. Why did I live? Why did I breathe?"(Wiesel 2). This just shows that praying and his religion is as important is living and breathing. Sadly later in the book he starts drifting away from his religion and starts focusing more on trying to survive. For example when he says, "Why should I sanctify His name? The Almighty, the eternal and terrible master of the Universe, chose to be silent. What was there to thank Him for?" (33). There is a huge difference in the two quotes from the begging and the near end of the book in the first he is a devoted Jew but in the second quote he shows no faith in god. 

      In the begging of the book Elie really docent have a strong bond with his father. Mostly because his dad sort of put his work before family so there was no strong connecting between the two. Elie’s dad was so caught up in work and his religion that he did not realize that a cousin was staying with them for four days. This is showing how caught up Elie's dad was in his own life and problems that he never really focused on his own family. Throughout the book Elie's bond with his father grows because of the situations he was put in. His father even becomes the main motivation for Elie to keep living. An example from the book is when he says, "To break the ranks, to let oneself slide to the edge of the road... My father's presence was the only thing that stopped me... He was running at my side, out of breath, at the end of his strength, at his wit's end"(Wiesel 82). This is showing how important his dad is to him and how much Elie relies on him to survive.