Albom details the six months he spends with Morrie Schwartz, his former sociology professor from Brandeis University who is dying of ALS, and the life lessons he receives. ... The book is full of lessons. ... I guess I would say good bye too all my friends and family members, but I would probably want to do some of the things that I hadn't done and would want to do before I left. ... I like the idea of knowing that you are about to die now that I have read this novel. I would want to know when I am going to die, so that I would be prepared. ...

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Mitch Albom's, Tuesdays With Morrie, is a sentimental story full of life lessons. ... Mitch has just found out that Morrie is dying. ... Mitch wasn't much for affection, but before leaving he embraced his old professor and kissed him gently goodbye. ... Mitch mad sure the world heard Morrie's final lesson. ... This is a book full of life lessons....

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Tuesdays With Morrie is the true story of the remarkable lessons taught by a dying teacher to his pupil. ... He had died a slow, painful death from pancreatic cancer, and watching him die had made Mitch feel helpless. ... "Instead, I buried myself in my accomplishments, because with accomplish- ments, I believed that I could control things, I could squeeze in every last piece of happiness before I got sick and died, like my uncle before me, which I figured was my natural fate." ... Morrie died, so that Mitch could live. ... Tuesdays with Morrie truly is the story of "an old man, and yo...

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He also gave Pip lessons to becoming a gentleman himself. ... Dickens believed his stories should teach a moral lesson. Describe the lessons which GE teaches. ... Though before Abel dies, Pip puts Abel's heart and mind at ease when he tells him that his daughter is alive, beautiful, and Pip is in love with her. Abel is able to die peacefully. ...

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Importance of Society In the novel A Lesson Before Dying Grant Wiggins struggles with society because of his race, prejudices, and the woman he loves. ... Grant was asked by Miss Emma to help her nephew Jefferson, who was sentenced to death by electrocution, to die with dignity. Grant is unsure if he can help Jefferson because he doesn"t know how to "help Jefferson die when he himself does not know how to live." Grant's assignment to help Jefferson die with dignity has taught him some important things too. ...

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As a result, Paul learns some of the greatest lessons of his life and grows into a mature, responsible and caring adult. ... "I glanced at her, and found a miracle had occurred before my eyes." ... Paul begins to understand this, too late, after Keller has died and Paul's own opportunities have faded, thus emphasising the lesson, which his Maestro teacher tried to instil in his student. ... Paul learnt about many forms of love throughout Maestro, yet it is not until the end of the text that Paul has time to reflect and appreciate the lessons of love that he had learnt. It is throug...

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Even after she died, the neighbors wanted to pry her house. ... She died before she was born. As illustrated in the story, time was consuming Emily faster than she could die. ... Eventually, he died and left Emily with nothing "no love from anyone. ... Much later in the story, Emily tries to become one with the town again when she offers painting lessons to the children of the town. ...

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Emily's conflicts began when her father died. ... Since her father had dominant control over her and she had never dated a man before Homer, when she fell in love she once again became happy. ... She became more isolated as, "her front door remained closed, save for a period of six or seven years, when she was about forty, during which she gave lessons in china-painting"" (par. 49). The outer society began to see how much of a conflicted character she was when they finally broke into her house after she died. ... Since Emily had a father who did not let her enjoy society as much as she wo...

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"I tried to tell myself that it could be worse, that the world was not a wish-granting factory, that I was living with cancer not dying of it, that I mustn't let it kill me before it kills me" (Page 121). ... Lexie Lubov, stated that, " Teenagers will take life lessons away from this book. ...

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That was too much for the Pigman and he let out a final yelp before he fell to the ground and died. ... The book showed very well that people could become friends no matter what and that is a lesson everyone should learn. ...

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As I was saying before, these values are learned behaviors, one experience in my life taught me the most about how important respect and honesty are in relationships. About a year ago, I learned a lesson I value, I had been dating my boyfriend for almost two years. One day I woke up to a telephone call from a good friend, she was telling me that the night before at a party my boyfriend kissed another girl. ... These are some hobbies of mine that will never die. ...

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Our marriage would be the talk of the town and pasted on as a life lesson and made into a book called "What Not to Do When You Grow Up.... But I understand he got to you first and asked you first before I can. ... Even a fly could not land on your skin before I destroy it with my sharp dagger. ... Marrying me will bring you a longer happiness because if you marry Jem, he might die before your first anniversary together. ... Before meeting you I always kept people at arms-length but now I want to keep you forever in my arms so that you can't run away from me. ...

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She describes her own experience with New York in a manner that shows the ideas, optimism, and dreams that die with lost youth and the understanding that comes from growing older. ... In describing the time just before she got married, she states, "I hurt the people I cared about, and insulted those I did not. ... Describing the lesson she learns that year, she states, "It is distinctly possible to stay too long at the fair" (236). ... Just as excitement dies and possibilities do in fact end as people grow older and it becomes apparent that time is in fact running out, New York's excite...

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Othello now takes a stance of hierarchy over Desdemona, never before seen, which proves that just by solely making a small mistake a life can be changed forever. ... Othello tells her that Cassio has died, and then he kills her. ... Until one works backwards for moments, hours or days before the actual mistake event, one probably won't see all of the contributing factors and can't learn all of the possible lessons. ...

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Due to the extreme weather in Tibet, lack of oxygen, cold, rain and storm, it is easy to die on half way of the pilgrimage. ... I tell myself to help people and have a meaningful day every morning I stand in front of the mirror and brush my teeth; and I tell myself that in the next day, I can contribute more to helping people every night before I go to bed. ... Before I went to the first meeting, I imagined it to be an event that people read and teach you Bible, but it was totally different. ... The embalmer said, "Rich folks, poor folks, winners, losers, players, workers, they dies a hu...

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"The victor belongs to the spoils" -Anthony Patch (p.188) "There is only one lesson to be learned from life... That there's no lesson to be learned from life." ... Toward the end of the book, the broken, debt-ridden hero, Anthony Patch, "awoke in the morning so nervous that Gloria could feel him trembling in the bed before he could muster enough vitality to stumble into the pantry for a drink." ( p. 388 ) Gloria and Anthony Patch are seen as glamorous, an...

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Pearl emphasizes the beauty of sin and how it can not only be a bad outcome, but a lesson to learn. ... Before the sin was committed, Hester's appearance was stunning. ... (Stubbs Caldwell) There after he then died. ...

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She once walked in on School Teacher giving his pupils a lesson on her animal characteristics. ... Before Baby Suggs's passed away, she reminded Sethe that love is an emotion that cannot be felt because it leads to depression and sadness. ... Only her third child, her older daughter, dies, her throat having been cut with a handsaw by Sethe. However, after Sethe's act of homicide, Baby Suggs sinks into great depression and eventually dies. ... The past comes back to haunt him from this point on and will so until he dies. ...

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At the same time, Disney succeeds in teaching our children a very vital lesson in life, how good looks and fame is not the key to true love. ... I totally disagree with this way of life and think Disney should have thought greatly before displaying such difference between women and men. ... Nonetheless, Belle and the Beast fall in love and she kisses him at the end of the movie before he dies and he becomes a prince again. ...

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She must go to work to support her family and baby, whom, soon after, grows sick and dies. ... With several life lessons learned from her tragic encounter with Alec, Tess is reluctant to fall truly give of herself to Angel, but she realizes to give herself up, is to receive love. ... Tess forgave Angel for abandoning her in the past and is ready for their future life together before she is arrested for the death of her former husband, Alec. ...

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The new moon had been up and down three times before she got worried in mind"(Ch. 3). ... She really did not find her freedom until Joe Starks dies and Tea Cake comes and scoops her off her feet. ... She has learned two life lessons – that people must go out and live their lives (not simply stay home and gossip) and that they must find God for themselves. ...

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She loved them, but said that while she was willing to die for them she couldn't give up anything essential for them. ... He is completely nave to think that she was going to Rouen for piano lessons. ... (Flaubert 375) This is from a scene right before Emma's death. ... When Emma commits suicide and Charles dies, Berthe is sent to live with Charles' mother. When Charles' mother dies, Berthe is sent to an impoverished aunt, where she is forced to work in a cotton mill. ...

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King Lear is one of the greatest tragedy play written by William Shakespeare, which portrays the intense suffering from the blindness through Lear king of Britain and the earl of Gloucester. According to Dictionaries, blindness is defined as "unable to see and lacking of sight, but blindness that...

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The next word was death and the dictionary said that it was a noun describing the act of dying, termination of life. ... Before I went any further I told her that she didn't have to answer and I could have easily found someone to do this. ...

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Jane Eyre is by far the best known of Charlotte Bronte's novels. The story is interesting and impressive because the heroine's personal character is quite different from the common run. In other novels, the heroines are always beautiful or powerful or rich, but Jane Eyre is only a short, penniless a...

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