As Garrison Keillor, a poet and writer, once stated,”Thank you, God, for this good life and forgive us if we do not love it enough.” John Proctor, a character from Arthur Miller’s The Crucible, could probably relate to this very sentiment. Throughout his play, Miller explores what it means to truly earn forgiveness through John Proctor and Elizabeth Proctor’s marriage. Both characters learn important lessons about forgiveness, but John Proctor learns that in order to be forgiven it is important to earn back the trust that has been lost, it is important to be patient in order to earn trust, and finally it is important to show that he is going to the extreme of even destroying his reputation to be forgiven by Elizabeth for what wrong he has caused. Throughout the book, Proctor does things to try and show Elizabeth how much he is really trying to do what’s right.
“Everyone is handed adversity in life. No one’s journey is easy. It’s how they handle it that makes people unique.” This is a quote by Kevin Conroy. When applied to the novels Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom and Night by Elie Wiesel, it is easy to see the truth in Conroy’s words.
Would you forgive someone who killed your loved one? For many people, this is a very difficult thing to do. Believe it or not, someone did this. Her name is Mary Johnson. Oshea Israel killed Johnson 's son.
Throughout history, humankind has evolved in not just physical capacities, but in technological capacities as well. With this fact, no one can deny the truth that those who possess the most advanced technology ultimately become the most dominant of their time. Starting with the bow and arrow, then fleet ships and iron-built weapons, to flintlock weapons and cannons, all the way up to cyber warfare and the final ultimatum of our time, the atomic bomb or ICMBs, he with the biggest stick wins the war. Why bring up such a terrifying subject? Because, that is what wins battles and turns the tides of war.
Forgive, not because they deserve forgives, but because you deserve peace. It’s not easy to stop blaming someone’s fault, especially for someone who do wrong to us. In the book The Sunflower written by Simon Wiesenthal, a survivor of the Holocaust during World War II, he described his conflict with Karl, a dying Nazi soldier who killed many innocent Jews and begging for forgiveness for his outrageous crime at the end of his life. At the end of this sad and tragic episode, Simon did not response to Karl’s request directly; instead he left us a tough question: “What should you have done?” Based on what Karl had done during World War II and his repentance, each person might have their own point of view about where should we draw the line of forgiveness.
Finally, Kor expresses the importance of forgiveness. “Anger and hate are seeds that germinate war. Forgiveness is a seed for peace. It is the ultimate act of self-healing. I look at forgiveness as the summit of a very tall mountain” (Kor and Buccieri 133).
I used to be slightly rude to others that were harsh to me, but I had learned that doing what they had been doing to me was not fixing the problem, but instead creating a worst problem. Liir’s friend, Candle, explains in the book how your past makes up who you are and how you should never want to change your past by saying “Memory is a part of the present. It builds us up inside; it knits our bones to our muscles and keeps our hearts pumping. It is memory that reminds our bodies to work, and memory that reminds our spirits to work to: it keeps us who we are. ()” I have a personal connection to this quote, because I know that my past has had many up and
We must learn to live now, the way we wish people to remember us in the future. Learning to make amends and trying to heal the bad memories, we must start creating new ones now while we have the opportunity. Seize the day and live in the present. We must make sure that we live within our means and balance the things that are important with the things that we need to
Forgiveness Must Be Within Very few people are truly happy in life, because we are all a little mad at ourselves. The only way to become truly happy is to forgive yourself. In the book night the author Elie Wiesel tells the story of what he experienced throughout the holocaust. You see how horrible it was and how his life was affected by the atrocity. Although some people say that you do not need forgiveness to be happy I disagree.
In the story Tuesdays with Morrie, Morrie gives a lot of advice. Like when he said “accept what you are able to do and what you are not able to do. " What he is saying is that there are some things you can do, but there are also some things you can't do so you should just accept it and move on. Another thing he says is" Learn to Forgive yourself and to forgive others. " What he is saying here is that we all make mistakes so don't hold it against yourself or anyone else, to forgive and forget .
“Accept who you are; and revel in it” (Albom 35).“Tuesdays with Morrie” by Mitch Albom a tale of sociology is about a student’s late fulfillment of an old promise. Mitch Albom reconnects with his old college professor Morrie after learning about his Lou Gehrig's diagnosement to accomplish one last class; a class about life. Morrie teaches Mitch about life from personal experience and observation. Mitch learns in order to achieve sustainable happiness a person must critically think to identify the recipe of society and have the courage to create something of your own; culture. America’s culture brainwashes its people by repeating the same thing over and over again until it becomes a second nature.
(Miller 484). Throughout the story, she becomes forgiving after spending three months in a jail cell. She forgives Proctor and finds some good in him. “John, it comes to naught that I should forgive you if you 'll not forgive yourself. It is not my soul, John, it is your . . .
Everyone makes mistakes, commits sins or does some bad deeds. As time goes by, one is unable to live with all the guilt from these sins and mistakes. One regrets it, repents it and does all sorts of things to make it right. Ultimately one only looks for ways to forgive oneself and this requires the atonement of past sins. Atonement in real life refers to the actions of making amends for a wrong or an injury.
If you go out of the house, there is a good chance that you will run into someone who is mean and looking for someone to hurt. There are a lot of miserable people out there who will do and say things that hurt your feelings. I 'm talking about emotional pain that makes you feel bad about yourself, them, and everything around you. This is the kind of emotional pain that can stay with you and have an effect on your life in a very negative way. It 's easy enough to say that other people shouldn 't be able to influence how we feel and how we behave, but it 's harder to actually follow through with that.
Tuesdays With Morrie is a heart wrenching philosophical movie about a rekindled relationship between a former student Mitch Albom and his college professor Morrie Schwartz, who’s dying from ALS. Every Tuesday, Mitch visits his college professor and learns a valuable lesson on some of the most complex problems life has to offer such as dependency and fear. Throughout the film, there were numerous amount of quotes that represented a significant lesson regarding life, but there were three in particular that stood out to me. “When we’re infants we need other to survive, When were dying, we need others to survive. But here’s the secret.
