Morrie Quotes

Ms. Luella Bates Washington Jones is her name. She is a very strong, influential, and kind. She works at a beauty shop. She is large and carries a large purse containing everything she needs in it everywhere she goes. When she was walking down the street, a boy named Roger came behind her and tried to snatch her purse. The bag was too heavy, therefore he lost his balance and fell down. In page 1, paragraph 1, lines 3-5, the author states "...a boy ran up behind her and tried to snatch her purse. The strap broke with the single tug the boy gave it from behind. But the boy's weight and the weight of the purse combined caused him to lose his balance so, instead of taking off full blast as he had hoped, the boy fell...". Ms. Luella then took him to her house to teach him a lesson. Her accent suggests that she's African-American.

Meg Murry is from the book A Wrinkle in Time and acts many different ways. While she is in school she acts mean and rude. At home she acts kind to her family and pets. The other students at school see Meg as frightful. Her brother Charles thinks of her respectively though.

Margaret Murry is a very interesting character. She can act very nice and sweet but also very rough and tough. Meg is very protective over her family. I think this because she got in a fight with a kid from her school because made-fun of her little brother. I also think that Meg is a very cautious character.

Meg Murry, one of the main characters of the novel, lives in a small town with her mother and three brothers. She is portrayed as an awkward girl who doesn't do particularly well in school nor fit in with the popular crowd. However, this apparent mediocrity conceals her extraordinary math abilities - a subject her father taught her before he disappeared. Megs relationship with some of the other characters are not the same at all. Meg has two twin brothers and she treats them poorly. But on the other hand she has a baby brother. Megs baby brothers name is charles wallace and they are really close they walk home to school together and do everything together at school charles wallace gets beat up on and she stops it . Meg Murry is the twelve-year-old

I choose this quote because the problems from his past keep causing problems for his future if he doesn’t figure out how to work through them.

Finally, she is able to detect the lies of her father. Lies he tries concealing. As he once indirectly pushed her away, Mariam needed him to know how much damage he causes. She would not spare him of the injustice he has commit. It would be the first time she speaks against a man. “ ‘I’ll visit you’ he muttered.[. . .] ‘No. No,’ she said. ‘Don’t come. I won’t see you. Don't you come. I don't want to hear from you. Ever. Ever.’ ”(50). Mariam is an intelligent, outgoing girl, daring at times. She went as far as walking to the busy streets of Kabul to search for her father. With this, she wanted to leave him with a wounded heart. Like she felt when he refused to open the doors of his home. After the miserable ceremony, these traits withered away.

for his time, perhaps I was trying to take too much from these Tuesdays. Listen, I said, we don’t

Morrie often expresses how he isn't afraid of aging. He sees aging as growth and something that is apart of life. Morrie isn't the type to dread or complain about things happening. He lives in the moment. he likes to experiment. There's a better approach to look at death and that's to be prepared. This can help get you more interested or involved in life while living. before Morrie's was sick he never really thought about death. No oen believes there going to die but its reality. Facing death helps you see things better, and differently. He says "learn how to die and you will learn how to live." This shows how he chose to see life and not everyone will agree. Some like to have joy thinking there going to live forever but as you get older there

The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.” (Mark Twain). This quote from the famous American writer is the basis for what became one of the hardest ideas to comprehend, death. Death has always been a complex term, causing one to struggle with what the true definition is. It is also hard to wrap your mind around what does it truly mean to die. These are the questions we long for the answer. Whether we acknowledge it or not, death has always been feared by many. Death remains an impossible question, one that has been unexplained since beginning of time. Even though dying is a natural, we as a human race still fear it. What can be done to defeat this never-ending battle? According to Montaigne’s “To Philosophize is to Learn to Die” and Cory Taylor’s “Questions for Me About Dying” we can overcome this by living to the fullest, living with no regrets, living a legacy, and lastly not fearing the inevitable. If you want to conquer the question of life, live in the moment.

Towards the beginning of Kindred, when Rufus is a young boy, Rufus is very trusting of Dana, and in turn Dana is very willing to help and guide Rufus. At this point Rufus does not fully understand the concept of slavery, or black versus white. Rufus does see that black people are treated as below him, but he does not understand why nor does he take advantage of this, yet. Rufus simply sees Dana as a woman who dresses as a man who helps him when he is in desperate need of help. As a boy, Rufus is very trusting of Dana, as Dana is trusting of Rufus. As shown in, “Rufus grabbed my arm and held it, obviously trying not to cry. His voice was a husky whisper. ‘Don’t go Dana.’ I didn’t want to go. I liked the boy” (66). This quote takes place right

“Each day means a new twenty-four hours. Each day means everything's possible again. You live in the moment, you die in the moment, you take it all one day at a time.”

When people ponder death they wonder about the unknown with trepidation. As a young man, William Cullen Bryant wrote the "Thanatopsis." His thoughts progress from the fear of death to the acceptance of the event. People should not fear death because everyone dies and becomes a part of nature.

In the book, Mitch is negative example in the class, Morrie use his theory to compare to Mitch's life style. Mitch's family is rich, Mitch forces on money but he isn't much care about family members and friends, their life is well but still have some problems, some empty. Morrie's family is poor, family members aren't alway health, his mom was dead when Morrie was a child, but tragedies make them unity,

Therefore, why worry about things that we cannot change? " We can’t fear things we can’t see, death is unseen here, but expressed in a way only the

We all know that one day we will be gone. It is still important to live properly and don't do rash things. Morrie’s lesson about death connect to my own life because I have to think before I do. If I do something wrong it can change what I do later. Sometimes action can mean life or death situation.