Adversity In Tuesdays With Morrie And Night

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 Conroy said happens to be extremely relevant and true. Every person who has ever walked the Earth has dealt with adversity in one form or another at least once in his or her life. Two novels, Tuesdays with Morrie, written by Mitch Albom, and Night, written by Elie Wiesel, exemplify the thought of adversity perfectly. Each character battles through the difficulties in his life to make it better for themselves and for those around them. Each novel expresses the theme of adversity through inhumanity, faith, and death. Adversity is synonymous with the words difficulty and misfortune. In Tuesdays with Morrie and Night, the main characters in each novel both face adversity through inhumanity. Both Morrie and Elie have to go through things that are simply unfair to them. Morrie, who was once a bright, electric, happy-go-lucky kind of man, has been struck with a heartbreaking disease called amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, otherwise known as ALS. In the novel, Morrie tells Mitch that the disease has slowly overtaken his body. Morrie is no longer physically able to shop, take care of his bank account, or take out the garbage. All that Morrie is really able to do is to sit back and to truly cherish the short remainder of his life (Albom 49-50). While Morrie does not have a negative attitude about anything in his life, he realizes that what the ALS is doing to
How each person deals with it is what makes the difference. In Tuesdays with Morrie and Night, both main characters have to deal with some gruesome situations. Both Morrie and Elie deal with their adversity in different ways, but both were appropriate ways in their differing situations. While adversity is not something that can be avoided in life, it is something to work around and to battle