Morrie's Childhood

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Morrie’s Childhood A girl named ,Oxana Malaya, was abandoned by her alcoholic parents when she was born. She grew up around dogs. She was seven years old when she was found, by then, she didn't have the ability to talk and she had no social skills. She would only act like a dog, barking, sleeping, and even cleaning herself like a dog. The environment a person is raised in will develope how a person acts, responds, and even thinks. There are three main ideas on how the environment shapes a person's behavior. The abandoned children funds says “Shockingly, there are over 20 million homeless or abandoned children in the world today - a majority of them are orphans.”The first is your own experiences can change your neuron's response. Connectomes …show more content…

You can even lose parts of your connectomes. These developments have been linked to people’s environments. It is true that certain people are born with tendies such as being more aggressive, but if the baby is raised in a relaxed pleasant environment growing up his connectomes change so he no longer has a tendency since that connectomes never had time to evince and grow. The second is gender conditioning, certain genders are raised up to be and act certain ways. The third is children being raised with little or no human contact. This can lead to feral children such as Oxana Malaya. Tuesday with Morrie, written by Mitch Albom, talks about many sensitive topics. Morrie, the teacher that you follow throughout the book, shares many of his personal aphorisms and philosophies with the reader. Many of these personal values, Morrie stands by were flourished by the environment he was raised in as a child and they affected him greatly. His behavior has been affected by his family such as: his mother, stepmother, …show more content…

According to kids data center, “24,444,000 kids leave with a single parent.” Morrie’s biological mother died when he was eight. Being the only english speaker, Morrie, read the telegraph first and was the one to tell his family that his mother had passed. This was a very hard time for Morrie. Morrie said on page eighteen ”Accept the past as the past, without denying it or discarding it.” Morrie had to accept at a young age that people come then go and that he couldn't change anything about it. His father wouldn't let him talk about his biological mother which is explaining the second part of the quote, he decided it was better to talk about your hardships. He decided that you shouldn't try to ignore it or act like it never happened. In the book, Morrie cries over his dead mother as an elderly man. He still allows himself to feel deeply rooted emotions even after it happened many years ago. His mother's death also made Morrie very sympathetic when hearing about other people’s pain. Morrie can relate to their pain so he understands their tremendous distress. This is one reason why Morrie is immensely caring. He knows people can have a lot of pain even if they try not to show it, so he shows everyone love. This is why he says “What’s wrong with being second?” because he believes everyone is entitled to the same love. This is shown in the book throughout Morrie’s and Mitch’s friendship as adults. Losing his mother at a young age

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