Examples Of Aphorism In Tuesdays With Morrie

Once you learn how to die, you learn how to live. In the book,”Tuesdays with Morrie,” by Mitch Albom, he writes about his professor dying of ALS. After Morrie was diagnosed with ALS he becomes wiser. The three most important aphorisms that Morrie teaches Mitch are, forgive yourself then forgive others, ask the bird on your shoulder us today the day, and love each other or perish.

“Once you learn how to die ,you learn how to live”,this quote sums up most of the lesion Morrie is trying to teach the readers. let me start from the beginning Mitch is telling us a story about his old professor that has been diagnosed with ALS.It's a disease when your body shuts down slowly . Morrie is teaching us how to live life in better ways before it's too late. The three most important aphorisms is family,importence,memories.

All three of the authors use literary devices in their own way to do a variety of things, whether that be getting a certain message across, exaggerating something, or showing the narrator’s reactions to certain things. In all three of the stories, the authors make use of flashbacks. In Big Boy, the author provides a flashback of his mother telling him that everyone defecates. He does this to show the reader that he understands that fecal matter is normal, but he still doesn’t want to be blamed for the situation he was in. In Tuesday’s with Morrie, several flashbacks are provided between all the chapters to give the reader some insight as to how Mitch and Morrie’s friendship grew. In The Last Lecture, the author talks about his days playing football as a teenager and he often references back to things his coach did. He talks about his coach’s antics in order to get across that everything can be a learning experience.

Sorry to disappoint you, but in the next 5 minorly-detailed paragraphs, I’m going to express to you whether I value the novel or the made-for-tv movie of Tuesday’s with Morrie more and why I do so. It’s probably safest if you toss on your seat belt because it just so happens that this overdue, late night written essay, is pretty choppy of a ride. Please continue reading to discover my undesired opinion displayed within this writing extravaganza. Enjoy!

Imagine a world with not one bit of sunlight - a dark world full perpetual rain that beats on the world like a drum. Vines cover this planet’s land like giant snakes. It’s a place full of nothing, except the little amount of human’s that roam it; however, how could you imagine such a place in the literature without such expressive language? Without the clarification that brings it life? In the short story, "All Summer in a Day" the author Ray Bradbury incorporates a variety of craft moves such as similes, metaphors, hyperboles, and onomatopoeia’s in order to clarify meaningful descriptions to give the story life.

My project for the novel "Tuesday's with Morrie" is a picture frame with aphorisms inside. The picture frame will have fourteen of my favorite aphorisms from the novel. With the fourteen aphorisms there will be a few pictures to tie the picture frame together. There are fourteen aphorisms because Mitch sees Morrie on fourteen Tuesday's before Morrie dies. I made this project so I could have the picture frame remind me to stay positive. Aphorisms help me continue to stay positive even if I don't want to be positive because of the meanings behind them.

“Until lions tell their stories, tales of hunting will glorify the hunter.” - African Proverb

We live in a society where power is positioned in hands that are often belonging to the wealthy, the white and often males. Power has become a thing that is thought to belong to the privileged, minorities are left powerless and are being overlooked and marginalized while others are not. In her book, To Kill A Mockingbird, Harper Lee has a character named Mayella Ewell stand trial and wrongfully convict an African American man, Tom Robinson. Mayella is special, she is special in the way that even though she comes off as a weak and powerless individual, she definitely is not. Mayella Ewell has power, she has enough power to sway a jury to wrongfully convict someone. This power is her racial and gender power.

The second aphorism is “ Learn to forgive yourself and to forgive others.” This aphorism means that forgive yourself and others too. Morrie learned that if you do something wrong then forgive yourself and forgive others. I can relate to this because when I do something wrong i just try to forgive myself and pray to God and when my brother does something to me I just forgive

In the book “To kill a mockingbird” written by Harper lee Intolerance leads to destruction. Intolerance is unwillingness to accept views,beliefs, or behaviour that differ from one’s own. The characters in the story are unwilling to change their ways even if it leads to destruction.Three main characters that demonstrate intolerance is Tom Robinson, Atticus Finch and Arthur “Boo” Radley.

Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird shows how the three protagonists are faced with tough situations without a hint of fear. The first character to show this is Atticus Finch who defends Tom Robinson, puts Tom’s life ahead of his own, and let his son fall for a crime he did not commit. Jem also shows courage when he stays at the jailhouse against his father’s request, goes back to get his pants from the Radley house, and when he fights Bob Ewell. Finally, Scout shows she can be brave when she walks away from the people who call her names, when she says the one thing no one else wants to, and when she runs into the circle at the jailhouse.

In Harper Lee’s classic novel To Kill a Mockingbird, she puts the realization into place that every individual has a unique sense. The Mockingbird title advocates the pure innocence within a being. So in saying this, it’s morally wrong to have killed an innocent mockingbird that brings nothing but positivity to this earth. Three mockingbirds that came into my view from this novel are Scout Finch, Boo Radley, and Atticus Finch. These people represent the mockingbird the best in my opinion, I say this because they have the childlike innocence that you can’t quite replicate for another.

The well known story “Hamlet” by William Shakespeare, provides a variety of important attributes which makes it so popular and effective. However, the story does contain many uses of the allusion literary device that contributes in getting the story’s ideas to the reader by referencing to another popular event or person that helps the reader understand the story, rather than be overwhelmed with thoughts. Although, these allusions contributed effectively in Shakespeare’s time and society, it may not be as effective in today’s society. Due to constant changes and adaptations overtime, our society has evolved, which would allow the use for an update to the story’s allusions based on historical figures like Herod and historical items as in a hobby horse in today’s society.

An allusion is either a direct or indirect reference to something that is known in:

Who would destroy something that contained a heart filled only with good? The answer to that can be found in the book To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee in an unjust time of unequal opportunity. The story follows the retelling of an 8-year-old girl named Jean Louis and those around her moral growth. She lives in Maycomb Alabama during the Great Depression. She has many chapters of growth including changing from afraid of a person to wanting to meet them, seeing people put on masks in order to avoid judgment, and watching an innocent man go to jail. Scout learns that to Kill a mockingbird is a sin for they have done no wrong, that people make that most meaningful mockingbirds, and the true significance of them because of the moral growth they bring about in people.