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Theme Of Adversity In Night

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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.” What Kevin means by this quote is that people will go through bad times, but it is how one handles the bad times. Adversity is defined as a condition marked by misfortune, calamity, and distress. In both Tuesdays with Morrie and Night adversity appears. Both of these novels deal with adversity in different ways. Both Morrie and Elie deal with adversity by death and by their fathers. In Tuesdays with Morrie, Morrie deals with adversity very well. Morrie is diagnosed with ALS, which is a disease that slowly kills him. He knows that he is going to die. He slowly starts to not be able to do the things that …show more content…

Elie is a jew that gets sent off to a concentration came with his family. Elie loses contact with his mother and his siblings. Elie hits a lot of rough patches while he is in the concentration camp. Elie wants nothing more than to give up, but he knows that he cannot because of his father. Elie knows he cannot die, because if he does his father will follow right in his footsteps. He knows that death could come at any day, and still managed to give his soup and bread to his father. Without Elie’s father being there he would give up. Elie tried everything i his power to keep his father alive with him. One night Elie and his father were asleep in a shed and some of the other Jews thought that his father was dead. Elie did everything that he could to wake his father up, because if he did not then the Jews were going to throw him outside to die. “And I started to hit him harder and harder. At last, my father half opened his eyes. They were glassy. He was breathing faintly” (Wiesel 99). Even though Elie knew it was very cold and that he himself needed to keep warm he made sure that his father was going to live. Like Elie, in Tuesdays with Morrie, Morrie dealt adversity with his father. Morrie’s mother had died and his father did not want Morrie to even talk about his mother. Morrie had to make the best of it and he tried to remember all the good times that they had

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