Facing Adversity In Tuesday's With Morrie And Night

Facing Adversity Kevin Conroy once said, “Everyone is handed adversity in life. No one’s journey is easy. It’s how they handle it that makes people unique.” In both novels, Tuesday’s with Morrie and Night, the main characters were faces with some of life's biggest adversities. In Tuesday’s with Morrie, Morrie gets diagnosed with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) and slowly fades away each day. Elie, in Night, was a victim of one of the world's biggest massacre, the holocaust. Both of these men went every day facing the chance of life or death. How were these men so great? Well, without the love of family and not fearing death itself. When one goes through adversity in life, family seems to be the right answer and the best support group.

Of course, both Morrie and Elie would have much rather lived their lives differently, but they did not have a choice. They knew that they could not change this, so therefore, they had to learn to not fear death. It's not easy to say that if they did not go through these horrific times they would fear death, but they did go through it. Morrie’s sickness grew each and everyday and there was no telling when his life was going to be over. Morrie told Mitch, “Once you learn how to die, you learn how to live” (Albom 82). Morrie did not fear death, he lived with it and as long as he was the person he wanted to be, he was okay with death. Like Morrie, Elie lived with death everyday during the holocaust. He woke up to death, saw death, and was neither dead himself. At the beginning of the book, Night, Elie was scared of what might happened to him and his family, but as time went on, death was the least of his problems. Elie faced torture and pain, so by the end of this massacre, death was the easier way out. Elie once said, “We were not afraid. And yet, if a bomb had fallen on the blocks, it would have claimed hundreds of inmates lives’. But we no longer feared death, in any event not particular death. Every bomb that hit filled us with joy, gave us renewed confidence” (Wiesel 149-152). Both of these men faced death, but learn to not fear it. They knew death like it was their best friend, but they knew