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 learned many lessons of life while reading this book. ... Morrie teaches Mitch lessons about marriage, greed, and family those young adults can learn from.Love each other or perish?... I like the idea of knowing that you are about to die now that I have read this novel. ...

• Word Count: 1473
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

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 brilliant book that has touched my heart. This is a book full of life lessons....

• Word Count: 838
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

"I glanced at her, and found a miracle had occurred before my eyes." ... Throughout the book, Paul learns about parental love from both his own parents and also from Keller. ... 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. As a result, the book can be closed with the satisfaction of knowing that Paul is happy with the choices that he made from the things he learnt about love. ... Paul learnt about many forms of love throughout Maestro, yet ...

• Word Count: 913
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

Characters: Lorraine - One of the authors of the book. ... John - The other author of the book. ... Dennis and Norton - Friends of John and Lorraine's Plot: This book was told by two high school students named John and Lorraine who wanted to write a memorial epic about their encounter with Mr.Pignati, the Pigman. ... 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. ...

• Word Count: 547
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

You could know about what's going on in the big picture, instead of just what the narrator was seeing or thinking. ... He also gave Pip lessons to becoming a gentleman himself. ... 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. ...

• Word Count: 1542
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

" Throughout the book, another important message was to live everyday, as it is your last. "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. ... " This book will teach teenagers to appreciate what they have, and to embrace what life has to offer. ... The Fault In Our Stars indeed proves that ones unrealistic ideals about love ...

• Word Count: 607
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

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." ... They should have been all along." " (p 175) The signature line from the book is "Death ends a life, n...

• Word Count: 1566
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

"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." ... In the first book, the couple (Anthony and Gloria) meet and fall in love. ... The book is crowded with observations on American social life in the l920's. ... Toward the end of the book, the broken, debt-ridden hero, Anthony Patch, "awoke in the morning so nervous that Gloria could fee...

• Word Count: 2828
• Approx Pages: 11
• Grade Level: High School

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. ...

• Word Count: 3600
• Approx Pages: 14
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

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. Similarly, you have a scene with a widow holding about four kids begging a man for six cents in which the man was just shoving her off like a dog or cat. ... 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. ... One thing I...

• Word Count: 1533
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

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. ... (Gottman 85) It is about knowing the good as well as the bad, the thrills and joys versus the pain and sadness. ... Her life's foundation begins to crumble when she tells Angel about her experience with Alec. ... Tess forgave Angel for abandoning her in the past and is ready for their future life together be...

• Word Count: 1633
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

This was his first working experience in life, which was good because it also taught him lessons about life (384). ... Then in 1920 she died from her complications with the disease. ... After extensive travels he died in 1930 in a sanatorium in Vence, France. Ever since his great love for writing had expanded he never stopped writing, even in months before his death (Slade 71). ... From the very beginning of the book you can tell that the relationship between Mr. ...

• Word Count: 2691
• Approx Pages: 11
• Grade Level: High School

Her bravery, persistence, self-respect and confidence run through the book. ... When they quarreled, the little girl cut her down to size declaring aloud what she thought about the woman: "I am not deceitful: If I were, I should say I loved you; but I declare I do not love you: I dislike you the worst of anybody in the world except John Read."... When they were about to get married, Maison, Rochester's brother-in-law announced that Mr. ... Jane acknowledged her inward feelings before Mr. ... It is impossible for Jane to stay as a governess as before. ...

• Word Count: 3066
• Approx Pages: 12
• Grade Level: High School