Randy Pausch Character Analysis

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The Attitudes of These Three Men Morrie Schwartz from Tuesday with Morrie, Randy Pausch from “The Last Lecture”, and Lou Gehrig from his speech to his crowd inspire the world to live life till the end. They each tell everyone to live your dreams and to not give up. Each of these men live with illness, they all have rough time but they keep on going so they can achieve their dreams. Morrie, Randy, and Lou are all brave, loving, and strong. Morrie Schwartz, Randy Pausch, and Lou Gehrig are all strong but, their very brave. Morrie is brave because he helps people with there problems. Like, Mitch, he has him come over every Tuesday and then he talks to him about lessons of life. Some of the lessons are accept what you are able to do and what you are not able to …show more content…
Thanks to all these men for stepping up by showing us we should love life.
Everyone is brave but three people are strong in their hearts. Morrie has als. If you do not know what als is, it is a progressive neurodegenerative disease that causes muscle weakness, paralysis, and ultimately, respiratory failure. He is dying but each Tuesday he has his older student, Mitch come over. He helps Mitch with lessons of life and he also been saying that it is okay to die. Randy was also strong in the heart. He is currently dying of cancer. He is strong because in his lecture he told us “Anything is possible and we should never lose that spirit” (“The Last Lecture”) He said that because if you do try your hardest you can achieve your dreams. There might be some dreams that you don't achieve but you can get a lot for trying for it. The next person that has a strong heart is Lou. he also is dying of Als. The reason why he is strong in the heart is that he told everyone saying even though he had a bad break, he has an awful lot to live for. These three men are all strong in the heart for helping everyone out by telling us their own

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