Two very different books that have similar themes, how ironic. The first novel, Tuesdays with Morrie By Mitch Albom, is about how a young man, Mitch, discovers that his favorite college professor, Morrie Schwartz, is dying from ALS, also known as, Lou Gehrig's disease. After Mitch discovers that his old professor is sick, he decised to take a day off from his busy work schedule to go see Morrie. Little did Mitch and Morrie know that would be the start of their final class together. The second novel, Night by Elie Wiesel, is about a young Jewish boy that survived the Holocaust. Throught Night, Elie is fighting for not just his own life but his father’s as well. Elie feels as if his father dies he has no reason to live. Both the novel Tuesdays with Morrie and the novel Night show the theme of adversity. While the novels have some differences and some similarities to how they show the theme of adversity. Some of the ways that the authors show adversity in their novels involve sickness, family, and religion.
Both novels show the theme of adversity with sickness. Morrie is deathly sick throughout Tuesdays with Morrie. In Night it shows copious amounts of sickness, including with Elie’s father and Elie himself. Morrie Schwartz was a professor that loved to dance. Nobody would …show more content…
Both Morrie and Elie lost family members in a tragic way. Morrie lost his mother at a very young age due to illness and he still struggled with it until the day he died. While Elie does not have any idea that he lost his mother, and sisters until later on because he had no clue what was going to happen when they first got to the camp. Morrie and Elie both lose their fathers in pretty tragic ways, Morrie’s father had a heart attack, and Elie’s father died of Dysentery. The doctors at the camp would not even try to help Elie’s father one of them said “That’s not my business. I’m a surgeon. Go on. make room for the others!” (Wiesel, Elie p.
Both novels show the theme of adversity with sickness. Morrie is deathly sick throughout Tuesdays with Morrie. In Night it shows copious amounts of sickness, including with Elie’s father and Elie himself. Morrie Schwartz was a professor that loved to dance. Nobody would …show more content…
Both Morrie and Elie lost family members in a tragic way. Morrie lost his mother at a very young age due to illness and he still struggled with it until the day he died. While Elie does not have any idea that he lost his mother, and sisters until later on because he had no clue what was going to happen when they first got to the camp. Morrie and Elie both lose their fathers in pretty tragic ways, Morrie’s father had a heart attack, and Elie’s father died of Dysentery. The doctors at the camp would not even try to help Elie’s father one of them said “That’s not my business. I’m a surgeon. Go on. make room for the others!” (Wiesel, Elie p.