The Orientation
The teacher and student embrace in a deep hug as he eventually gets out of the automobile. Morrie smelled bad, as individuals on medicine sometimes do, according to Mitch. He is plagued with remorse, feeling he is no longer the excellent guy he was when he was Morrie's pupil and promising to keep in touch. He planned to deceive Morrie in the coming hours. Morrie sits down, takes his meds, and then informs Mitch that he is dying. Then he asks Mitch if he wants to experience what it's like to die. When Mitch says yes, the first class begins.
A foil is a circumstance in which one character contrasts with another, however in this narrative, Mitch has a foil situation with himself. He contrasts his decisions with his former self. He is plagued with remorse for failing to see his professor and for allowing himself to get so preoccupied with his work that he violated his vow to do so. When he sees his professor on the porch before to his first visit, he feels this remorse for the first time.
This is also a dramatic irony. The reader is aware that Morrie will get nauseated while reading about Mitch reporting sports stories all around the world. Obviously, a young Mitch is unaware that his professor would be infected with this sickness, but the reader is. One has to wonder what Mitch would have done if he had a crystal ball into the future. Would he have continued his workaholic tendencies, or would he have scheduled a day a year to visit his college mentor?
At the beginning of the story, the metaphor is to compare a dying hibiscus plant to a sick and dying Molly. Notice that you are standing at the end of the bridge, also known as your life. This paints the reader a mental picture of Molly walking across the bridge and almost getting worse as she nears the end. We know he's finally gone. Molly uses her lungs as a symbol of life. When he and Mitch take a breath test, Mitch can count many numbers in a single breath. Molly comes up with far fewer numbers, and those numbers are dwindling by the day. He knows his life expectancy is short because his lungs make him do less. To Molly, his lungs represent an hourglass with the bottom half almost completely empty of sand. In this section, Morrie teaches Mitch about culture and how people create their own. An example of this is Mitch in London, who saw the tabloids and realized that people had made this our culture.This culture lesson has an allegory that can be further applied to Mitch's life. Mitch has developed a unique culture of making his work his life. Because of this, he missed out on other things (like having kids).
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