Have you ever had a teacher that changed your life? In the memoirs Tuesdays with Morrie and Meeting Mrs. Flowers the authors tell a story of how a teacher changed their lives. Teachers are an excellent and unexpected resource to living through the ups and downs of your life. Tuesdays with Morrie and Meeting Mrs. Flowers provide exceptional examples of this concept. The latter consisting of a young girl named Marguerite who is going through a traumatic experience; she has come to be in a depressed state separating herself from the reality that surrounds her. An aristocrat woman, Mrs. Flowers, sees potential in her and decides to take Marguerite under her wing in order to teach her the lessons of life. Tuesdays with Morrie is the story of a man named Mitch who reconnects with his former college professor after a sixteen year separation. As Mitch's professor, Morrie Schwartz, melts away from the disease ALS he teaches Mitch life lessons on Tuesdays of how to be the most human that one can be. These memoirs exemplify the
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Flowers,” by Maya Angelou, is also written in a way to teach readers many life lessons based on the author's own life experiences. For example, the excerpt explains that if you open up to your mentors and fellow man they can facilitate significant and extraordinary impacts upon you and your life. Marguerite describes walking Mrs. Flowers’ groceries to her house. When Mrs. Flowers begins to talk to her and tries to open her up as if she was a book:
"She said without turning her head, “I hear you're doing very good work, Marguerite, but that it's all written. The teachers report that they have trouble getting you to talk in class."... I hold back in the separate unasked and unanswered questions…’Now no one is going to make you talk-possibly no one can. But bear in mind language is man's way of communicating with his fellow man, and its language alone which separates him from the lower animals”’ ( Angelou
Flowers,” by Maya Angelou, is also written in a way to teach readers many life lessons based on the author's own life experiences. For example, the excerpt explains that if you open up to your mentors and fellow man they can facilitate significant and extraordinary impacts upon you and your life. Marguerite describes walking Mrs. Flowers’ groceries to her house. When Mrs. Flowers begins to talk to her and tries to open her up as if she was a book:
"She said without turning her head, “I hear you're doing very good work, Marguerite, but that it's all written. The teachers report that they have trouble getting you to talk in class."... I hold back in the separate unasked and unanswered questions…’Now no one is going to make you talk-possibly no one can. But bear in mind language is man's way of communicating with his fellow man, and its language alone which separates him from the lower animals”’ ( Angelou