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Morris's Aphorisms In Tuesdays With Morrie

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My project is a book that contains all of Morris's aphorisms that I could find in the book Tuesdays with Morrie. I tried to relate my own life to the aphorisms that I found. I tried to find pictures that relate to the book and the aphorisms. Then I put the pictures with the aphorisms and decorated it with other things i used as decorations. This whole project helped me understand the book better. It give me a better understanding of what he was trying to say when he wrote the aphorisms. My project uses aphorisms which are a main part of the book. If Morrie never made any there is a chance that Mitch and Morrie would not have met again. This means that that book would have never been written. Then we would never been able to know about Morrie. As you can see aphorisms were a pretty important part of the book. Having read the book and the aphorisms …show more content…

I gave up on that idea because i wanted it to be more than a book. I decided to make it look more like a scrapbook because i really did want it to still be in book format. I still think of it looking more like a scrapbook than a actual book but it still is a boom to me. In my project I tried to incorporate a lot of birds. This was because of what Morrie said about asking the bird on his shoulder "Is this the day I die?". I thought of this as a important thing in the book. On the page that had the second aphorism was my drawing of a bird. I tried my best to draw the best bird possible but it ended up looking pretty bad. I was going to cover it up but then I looked at the aphorism that I put on the page. The aphorism was to "Accept the past as past, without denying it or discarding it." I took it personally and I decided to keep the bird because I would have felt guilty if I did. On the front cover I picked a picture that I feel that Morrie would enjoy. Since he loved to dance i wanted to have a picture of him happy on the front cover of my

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