Literary Luminary: "Tuesdays with Morrie" (Week 8, page 141 to 159)
Passage #1: On page 150 to 151, Mitch asks Morrie what he thinks about Job from the Book of Job. He asks for Morrie's opinion about how "God makes him suffer. To test his faith" (Albom, 150) which Morrie responds with he thinks "God overdid it" (151). Do you think Job resembles Morrie and why or why not? Although Morrie did not lose everything like Job does, I believe that Job does resemble Morrie's current situation, and that there is a parallel in between characters. The story of Job is about a man who is tested for his "sovereignty and faithfulness during a time of great suffering" (Biblehub) towards God because Satan believes that "Job is only good because God has blessed him abundantly [and] ... if given permission to punish the man, Job will turn and curse God" (SparkNotes). Though Morrie does not get everything taken away from him, he is tested by God to determine whether or not Morrie can stay committed or faithful to his …show more content…
In other words, Morrie mentions that any couple who lacks respect, in communication, and similarities will perish as a couple. After Janine sings the song The Very Thought of You by Ray Noble, Morrie tears up and Mitch comments that "[i]n all these years I have listened to my wife sing, I never heard her the way Morrie did at that moment" (147). This passage illustrates how the couple has different values, which may be one of the reasons why Mitch does not "feel" his wife's singing and the reason why Janine and Morrie bonded immediately. This theme is demonstrated when Mitch refuses to bring Janine to see Morrie all these weeks. The act is a result of poor consolidation as Mitch fails to realize the relationship that they could have established as evident in the passage "she was connecting with my old professor as if they'd known each otehr since college"
Passage #1: On page 150 to 151, Mitch asks Morrie what he thinks about Job from the Book of Job. He asks for Morrie's opinion about how "God makes him suffer. To test his faith" (Albom, 150) which Morrie responds with he thinks "God overdid it" (151). Do you think Job resembles Morrie and why or why not? Although Morrie did not lose everything like Job does, I believe that Job does resemble Morrie's current situation, and that there is a parallel in between characters. The story of Job is about a man who is tested for his "sovereignty and faithfulness during a time of great suffering" (Biblehub) towards God because Satan believes that "Job is only good because God has blessed him abundantly [and] ... if given permission to punish the man, Job will turn and curse God" (SparkNotes). Though Morrie does not get everything taken away from him, he is tested by God to determine whether or not Morrie can stay committed or faithful to his …show more content…
In other words, Morrie mentions that any couple who lacks respect, in communication, and similarities will perish as a couple. After Janine sings the song The Very Thought of You by Ray Noble, Morrie tears up and Mitch comments that "[i]n all these years I have listened to my wife sing, I never heard her the way Morrie did at that moment" (147). This passage illustrates how the couple has different values, which may be one of the reasons why Mitch does not "feel" his wife's singing and the reason why Janine and Morrie bonded immediately. This theme is demonstrated when Mitch refuses to bring Janine to see Morrie all these weeks. The act is a result of poor consolidation as Mitch fails to realize the relationship that they could have established as evident in the passage "she was connecting with my old professor as if they'd known each otehr since college"