Personal Peace

PERSONAL PEACE
Morrie is a professor not only by title or at school. He is a professor by heart

that touches the life of his students. Mitch, one of his students are already on the top
of his career in media as an reporter, dj and writer. One day when he watched the
news, he saw Morrie who is dying because of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis(ALS) ,
also known as Lou Gehrig's disease. It destroys his muscles, making him weaker
and weaker until his lungs can no longer support him and he dies. The disease will
eat away at his nerves, rendering his body useless but leaving his soul and mind
intact. Although doctors give him a prognosis of two years, Morrie knows it will be
less. He and his wife prepare for this new life. How? Morrie refuses to throw in the
towel. Instead, he starts opening up his home to visitors, reaching out to everyone he
knows.
Mitch is stunned to see his old teacher on television. During the years since
his graduation, Mitch has tried but failed to make a living as a musician. The death of
a close relative instills in him a sense of urgency to do something significant with his
life, and he turns to journalism as a career. Mitch works obsessively, burying himself
in accomplishments in a single-minded but ultimately unsuccessful pursuit of
happiness. Mitch has cut himself off from all his past acquaintances, and forgotten
the lessons Morrie had taught about relationships and "being human." Seeing the
dying man on television rekindles old yearnings, however, and Mitch is drawn to visit
his former mentor. At that moment, he feels something in his heart that he wants to
visit Morrie. However meeting deadlines, answering every phone calls and the
nature of his job in journalism really knocks his peace within, most especially when
his relationship with Janine suffers. At first, Mitch feels uneasy because of his
responsibility to his job and his hectic schedule so He needs to sacrifice and make a
decision to give up something to attend this feelings. He wants to see Morrie.
I can see there that personal peace comes within and acceptance is very
important fact that we can consider. Well, I also agree that in reality, everyone of us
will die. Each one will face death. However, George became true to himself because
I'll also agree that it's hard to say goodbye to the one who means a lot to me. Ilike
the quotes, when you die, you live.
Peace comes when I live free and very seldom that I am not being controlled by
others or not being controlled by the situation itself. I can be able to express and
stand for my own values and principles, share it to others just like what Morrie did,
and to pursue my passion. There's a unique identity of each one that I have to
consider and respect their opinion as well.
The importance of giving, forgiveness are also two of most important factors of
peace. One of Morrie's main regret was about his father wherein he failed to forgive
and reconcile with him before he died. He failed to approach his father, asks how he
feels towards the death of her mother and open up the way he treat him.
On the other hand, Morrie, appreciates that since he knows he was dying, then he
can be able to preapare himself and his loved ones when he face death. I find the
brighter side of the story to look for ways to be grateful and cheerful so peace will
come along.
When he asked how he accept those things he experience, Morrie shared in the
morning He mourn,he cried and release all his emotions of pain for a while. And
that's it! The next hour of the day will turn to joy when people coming in and he
knows that he has still a mission to share something about life with regards to facing
death.
All endings are also beginnings. We just don't know it at the time.”
― Mitch Albom, The Five People You Meet In Heaven
tags: profound
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“All parents damage their children. It cannot be helped. Youth, like pristine glass, absorbs the
prints of its handlers. Some parents smudge, others crack, a few shatter childhoods completely
into jagged little pieces, beyond repair.”
― Mitch Albom, The Five People You Meet in Heaven
tags: family, inspirational, life, parents
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“Lost love is still love. It takes a different form, that's all. You can't see their smile or bring them
food or tousle their hair or move them around a dance floor. But when those senses weaken
another heightens. Memory. Memory becomes your partner. You nurture it. You hold it. You
dance with it.”
― Mitch Albom
tags: love
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“When someone is in your heart, they're never truly gone. They can come back to you, even at
unlikely times.”
― Mitch Albom, For One More Day
tags: love
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“Holding anger is a poison...It eats you from inside...We think that by hating someone we hurt
them...But hatred is a curved blade...and the harm we do to others...we also do to ourselves.”
tags: ruby-anger
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“So many people walk around with a meaningless life. They seem half-asleep, even when they're
busy doing things they think are important. This is because they're chasing the wrong things. The
way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others, devote yourself to your
community around you, and devote yourself to creating something that gives you purpose and
meaning.”
― Mitch Albom, Tuesdays with Morrie
tags: inspirational
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“Have you ever lost someone you love and wanted one more conversation, one more chance to
make up for the time when you thought they would be here forever? If so, then you know you can
go your whole life collecting days, and none will outweigh the one you wish you had back.”
tags: loss
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“But there's a story behind everything. How a picture got on a wall. How a scar got on your face.
Sometimes the stories are simple, and sometimes they are hard and heartbreaking. But behind all
your stories is always your mother's story, because hers is where yours begin.”
tags: mother, stories
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“Accept who you are; and revel in it.”
tags: confidence
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“Love is how you stay alive, even after you are gone.”
― Mitch Albom
tags: death, immortality, love
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“Sometimes when you sacrifice something precious, you're not really losing it. You're just passing
it on to someone else.”
tags: sacrifice
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“You see, you closed your eyes. That was the difference. Sometimes you cannot believe what you
see, you have to believe what you feel. And if you are ever going to have other people trust you,
you must feel that you can trust them, too--even when you’re in the dark. Even when you’re
falling.”
tags: trust
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“The truth is, once you learn how to die, you learn how to live.”
tags: life-death
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“Try to imagine a life without timekeeping. You probably can’t. You know the month, the year,
the day of the week. There is a clock on your wall or the dashboard of your car. You have a
schedule, a calendar, a time for dinner or a movie. Yet all around you, timekeeping is ignored.
Birds are not late. A dog does not check its watch. Deer do not fret over passing birthdays. an
alone measures time. Man alone chimes the hour. And, because of this, man alone suffers a
paralyzing fear that no other creature endures. A fear of time running out.”
― Mitch Albom, The Time Keeper
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“If you hold back on the emotions--if you don't allow yourself to go all the way through them--you
can never get to being detached, you're too busy being afraid. You're afraid of the pain, you're
afraid of the grief. You're afraid of the vulnerability that loving entails. But by throwing yourself
into these emotions, by allowing yourself to dive in, all the way, over your heard even, you
experience them fully and completely.”
tags: emotion
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“When you look into your mother’s eyes, you know that is the purest love you can find on this
earth.”
tags: mother-s-love, unconditional-love
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“I like myself better when I'm with you.”
tags: morrie, tuesdays, with
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“One day spent with someone you love can change everything.”
tags: change, love, time
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“Sacrifice is a part of life. It's supposed to be. It's not something to regret. It's something to aspire
to.”
tags: life, sacrifice
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“The only time we waste is the time we spend thinking we are alone.”
― Mitch Albom, The Five People You Meet in Heaven - Meniti Bianglala
tags: loneliness, self-pity
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“Don't let go too soon, but don't hold on too long.”
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“Life is a series of pulls back and forth... A tension of opposites, like a pull on a rubber band. Most
of us live somewhere in the middle. A wrestling match...Which side win? Love wins. Love always
wins”
tags: life, love
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“There are no random acts...We are all connected...You can no more separate one life from
another than you can separate a breeze from the wind...”
tags: life
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“You have peace," the old woman said, "when you make it with yourself.”
tags: peace, self-acceptance
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“No life is a waste," the Blue Man said. "The only time we waste is the time we spend thinking
we're alone.”
― Mitch Albom
tags: connectedness, inspirational, interdependence
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“Faith is about doing. You are how you act, not just how you believe.”
― Mitch Albom, Have a Little Faith: a True Story
tags: action, belief, faith
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“Don't cling to things because everything is impermanent.”
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“I also believe that parents, if they love you, will hold you up safely, above their swirling waters,
and sometimes that means you'll never know what they endured, and you may treat them
unkindly, in a way you otherwise wouldn't.”
tags: family, parents
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“Nothing haunts us like the things we don't say.”
― Mitch Albom, Have a Little Faith: a True Story
“Well, for one thing, the culture we have does not make people feel good about themselves. We're
teaching the wrong things. And you have to be strong enough to say if the culture doesn't work,
don't buy it. Create your own. Most people can't do it.”
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“there are a few rules I know to be true about love and marriage: If you don't respect the other
person, you're gonna have a lot of trouble. If you don't know how to compromise, you're gonna
have a lot of trouble. If you can't talk openly about what goes on between you, you're gonna have
a lot of trouble. And if you don't have a common set of values in life, you're gonna have a lot of
trouble. Your values must be alike.' - Morrie Schwartz”
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“It is never too late or too soon. It is when it is supposed to be.”
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“Parents rarely let go of their children, so children let go of them. They move on. They move
away. The moments that used to define them - a mother's approval, a father's nod - are covered
by moments of their own accomplishments. It is not until much later, as the skin sags and the
heart weakens, that children understand; their stories, and all their accomplishments, sit atop the
stories of their mothers and fathers, stones upon stones, beneath the waters of their lives.”
tags: growing-up
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“Heaven can be found in the most unlikely corners.”
tags: inspirational
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“Love wins, love always wins.”
tags: love
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“Learn this from me. Holding anger is a poison. It eats you from inside. We think that hating is a
weapon that attacks the person who harmed us. But hatred is a curved blade. And the harm we
do, we do to ourselves.”
tags: acceptance, anger, rage, serenity
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“I give myself a good cry if I need it, but then I concentrate on all good things still in my life.”
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“Death doesn't just take someone, it misses someone else, and in the small distance between
being taken and being missed, lives are changed.”
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“This is part of what a family is about, not just love. It's knowing that your family will be there
watching out for you. Nothing else will give you that. Not money. Not fame. Not work.”
tags: family, love
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“Love like rain, can nourish from above, drenching couples with soaking joy. But sometimes,
under the angry heat of life, love dries on the surface and must nourish from below, tending to its
roots, keeping itself alive.”
tags: lessons, love
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“If you're trying to show off for people at the top, forget it. They will look down on you anyhow.
And if you're trying to show off for people at the bottom, forget it. They will only envy you. Status
will get you nowhere. Only an open heart will allow you to float equally between everyone.”
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“But she wasn’t around, and that’s the thing when your parents die, you feel like instead of going
in to every fight with backup, you are going into every fight alone.”
tags: alone, back-up, death, death-of-a-loved-one, dying, fight, loss, parents
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“This is the greatest gift God can give you: to understand what happened in your life. To have it
explained. It is the peace you have been searching for.”
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“People say they 'find' love, as if it were an object hidden by a rock. But love takes many forms,
and it is never the same for any man and woman. What people find then is a certain love. And
[he] found a certain love with [her], a grateful love, a deep but quiet love, one that he knew, above
all else, was irreplaceable.”
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“We all yearn for what we have lost. But sometimes, we forget what we have.”
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“Strangers are just family you have yet to come to know.”
― Mitch Albom
tags: family
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“We've got a sort of brainwashing going on in our country, Morrie sighed. Do you know how they
brainwash people? They repeat something over and over. And that's what we do in this country.
Owning things is good. More money is good. More property is good. More commercialism is
good. More is good. More is good. We repeat it--and have it repeated to us--over and over until
nobody bothers to even think otherwise. The average person is so fogged up by all of this, he has
no perspective on what's really important anymore.
Wherever I went in my life, I met people wanting to gobble up something new. Gobble up a new
car. Gobble up a new piece of property. Gobble up the latest toy. And then they wanted to tell you
about it. 'Guess what I got? Guess what I got?'
You know how I interpreted that? These were people so hungry for love that they were accepting
substitutes. They were embracing material things and expecting a sort of hug back. But it never
works. You can't substitute material things for love or for gentleness or for tenderness or for a
sense of comradeship.
Money is not a substitute for tenderness, and power is not a substitute for tenderness. I can tell
you, as I'm sitting here dying, when you most need it, neither money nor power will give you the
feeling you're looking for, no matter how much of them you have.”
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“The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in. Let it come
in. We think we don’t deserve love, we think if we let it in we’ll become too soft. But a wise man
named Levin said it right. He said, “Love is the only rational act.”
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“Everyone knows they re going to die,' he said again, 'but nobody believes it. If we did, we would
do things differently.”
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“Every life has one true love snapshot.”
tags: love
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“Devote yourself to loving others, devote yourself to your community around you, and devote
yourself to creating something that gives you purpose and meaning.”
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“Be compassionate," Morrie whispered. And take responsibility for each other. If we only learned
those lessons, this world would be so much better a place."
He took a breath, then added his mantra: "Love each other or die.”
tags: compassion-love
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“Life is a series of pulls back and forth. You want to do one thing, but you are bound to do
somehing else. Something hurts you, yet you know it shouldn't. You take certain things for
granted, even when you know you should never take anything for granted.”
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“Sharing tales of those we've lost is how we keep from really losing them.”
tags: life, lose, memories, remember, share, tales
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“With endless time, nothing is special. With no loss or sacrifice, we can’t appreciate what we
have”
tags: time
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“As you grow, you learn more. If you stayed as ignorant as you were at twenty-two, you'd always
be twenty-two. Aging is not just decay, you know. It's growth. It's more than the negative that
you're going to die, it's the positive that you understand you're going to die, and that you live a
better life because of it.”
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“People are only mean when they are threatened.”
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“There is a reason God limits our days.'
'Why?'
'To make each one precious.”
“I thought about all the people I knew who spent many of their waking hours feeling sorry for
themselves. How useful it would be to put a daily limit on self-pity. Just a few tearful minutes,
then on with the day.”
“There is no such thing as 'too late' in life.”
“I give myself a good cry if I need it. But then I concentrate on the good things still in my life. I
don't allow myself any more self-pity than that. A little each every morning, a few tears, and that's
all.”
tags: depression, inspirational
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“Don't cling to things, because everything is impermanent... But detachment doesn't mean you
don't let the experience penetrate you.
On the contrary, you let it penetrate you fully. That's how you are able to leave it...You're afraid of
the pain, you're afraid of the grief... But by throwing yourself into these emotions, by allowing
yourself to dive in, all the way, over your head even, you experience them fully and
completely.You know what pain is. You know what love is. "All right. I have experienced that
emotion. I recognize that emotion. Now I need to detach from that emotion for a moment.”
“Because if you've found meaning in your life, you don't want to go back. You want to go
forward.”
tags: life
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“The problem, Mitch, is that we don't believe we are as much alike as we are. Whites and blacks,
Catholics and Protestants, men and women. If we saw each other as more alike, we might be very
eager to join in one big human family in this world, and to care about that family the way we care
about our own.
But believe me, when you are dying, you see it is true. We all have the same beginning - birth -
and we all have the same end - death. So how different can we be?
Invest in the human family. Invest in people. Build a little community of those you love and who
love you.
Morrie Schwartz”
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“There is a big confusion in this country over what we want verses what we need...you need food.
You want a chocolate sundae.”
“We need to forgive ourselves. For all the things we didn't do. All the things we should have done.
You can't get stuck on the regrets of what should have happened.”
Take any emotion—love for a woman, or grief for a loved one, or what I’m going through, fear and
pain from a deadly illness. If you hold back on the emotions—if you don’t allow yourself to go all
the way through them—you can never get to being detached, you’re too busy being afraid. You’re
afraid of the pain, you’re afraid of the grief. You’re afraid of the vulnerability that loving entails.
“But by throwing yourself into these emotions, by allowing yourself to dive in, all the way, over
your head even, you experience them fully and completely. You know what pain is. You know
what love is. You know what grief is. And only then can you say, ‘All right. I have experienced that
emotion. I recognize that emotion. Now I need to detach from that emotion for a moment’.”
“Learn how to live and you'll know how to die; learn how to die, and you'll know how to live.”
― Mitch Albom, Tuesdays with Morrie “Learn how to live and you'll know how to die; learn
how to die, and you'll know how to live.”
 Jack Lemmon – Morrie Schwartz

 Hank Azaria – Mitch Albom
 Wendy Moniz – Janine, Mitch's girlfriend
 Caroline Aaron – Connie, Morrie's home nurse
 Bonnie Bartlett – Charlotte Schwartz, Morrie's wife
 Aaron Lustig – Rabbi Al Axelrod
 Bruce Nozick – Mr. Schwartz
 Ivo Cutzarida – Armand
 John Carroll Lynch – Walter Moran, Mitch's boss from the sports column
 Kyle Sullivan – Young Morrie
 Dan Thiel – Shawn Daley
 Christian Meoli – Aldo
 John Billingsley – Sports Fan #1
Personal Reflection
Tuesday with Morrie
by
 Asa Butterfield as Bruno

 Jack Scanlon as Shmuel, a young Jew sent to a concentration camp
 Vera Farmiga as Elsa, Bruno's mother
 David Thewlis as Ralf, Bruno's father
 Amber Beattie as Gretel, Bruno's older sister
 Rupert Friend as Lieutenant Kurt Kotler
 David Hayman as Pavel
 Sheila Hancock as Natalie, Bruno's grandmother
 Richard Johnson as Matthias, Bruno's grandfather
 Cara Horgan as Maria
 Jim Norton as Herr Liszt
 The film opens with the quote "Childhood is measured out by sounds and smells and
sights, before the dark hour of reason grows", by John Betjeman. A young boy named
Bruno lives with his family in Berlin, in Nazi Germany during World War II. He learns that
his father Ralf has been promoted, due to which their family, including Bruno's mother
Elsa and sister Gretel, relocate to the "countryside" (occupied Poland). Bruno hates his
new home as there is no one to play with and very little to explore. After commenting that
he has spotted people working on what he thinks is a farm in the distance (but,
unbeknownst to the innocent Bruno, is actually a concentration camp), he is also
forbidden from playing in the back garden.
 Bruno and Gretel get a private tutor, Herr Liszt, who pushes an agenda
of antisemitism and Nazi propaganda. This, together with Gretel's infatuation with one of
the lieutenants, causes Gretel to become extremely fanatical in her support for the Third
Reich, to the point of covering her bedroom wall with Nazi propaganda posters and
portraits of Adolf Hitler. Bruno is confused as the Jew he has seen, the family's Jewish
servant Pavel, does not resemble the anti-Semiticcaricatures in Liszt's teachings.
 One day, Bruno disobeys his parents and sneaks off into the woods, eventually arriving
at a barbed wire fence surrounding a camp. He befriends a boy his own age named
Shmuel. The pair's lack of knowledge on the true nature of the camp is revealed: Bruno
thinks that the striped uniforms that Shmuel, Pavel, and the other prisoners wear are
pyjamas and Shmuel believes his grandparents died from an illness during their journey
to the camp. Bruno starts meeting Shmuel regularly, sneaking him food and playing
board games with him. He eventually learns that Shmuel is a Jew and was brought to the
camp with his father and mother.
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 Prisoner's clothing from Sachsenhausen concentration camp
 One day, Elsa discovers the reality of Ralf's assignment after Lieutenant Kurt Kotler lets
slip that the black smoke coming from the camp's chimneys is due to the burning corpses
of Jews. She confronts Ralf, disgusted and heartbroken. At dinner that night, Kotler
admits that his father had left his family and moved to Switzerland. Upon hearing this,
Ralf tells Kotler that he should have informed the authorities of his father's disagreement
with the current political regime as it was his duty. The embarrassed Kotler then becomes
infuriated with Pavel for accidentally spilling a glass of wine and violently beats him. The
next morning the maid, Maria, is seen scrubbing the blood stains.
 Later that day, Bruno sees Shmuel working in his home. Shmuel is there to clean wine
glasses because they needed someone with small hands to do it. Bruno offers him some
cake and willingly Shmuel accepts it. Unfortunately, Kotler happens to walk into the room
where Bruno and Shmuel are socialising. Kotler is furious and yells at Shmuel for talking
to Bruno. In the midst of his scolding, Kotler notices Shmuel chewing the food Bruno
gave him. When Kotler asks Shmuel where he got the food, he says Bruno offered the
cake, but Bruno, fearful of Kotler, denies this. Believing Bruno, Kotler tells Shmuel that
they will have a "little chat" later. Distraught, Bruno goes to apologise to Shmuel, but
finds him gone. Every day, Bruno returns to the same spot by the camp but does not see
Shmuel. Eventually, Shmuel reappears behind the fence, sporting a black eye. Bruno
apologises and Shmuel forgives him, renewing the friendship.
 After the funeral of his grandmother, who was killed in Berlin by an Allied bombing, Ralf
tells Bruno and Gretel that their mother suggests that they go to live with a relative
because it is not safe there. In truth, Elsa suggests this because she does not want her
children living with their murderous father. Shmuel has problems of his own; his father
has gone missing after those with whom he participated in a march did not return to the
camp. Bruno decides to redeem himself by helping Shmuel find his father. The next day,
Bruno, who is due to leave that afternoon, dons a striped prisoners' outfit and a cap to
cover his unshaven head, and digs under the fence to join Shmuel in the search. Bruno
soon discovers the true nature of the camp after seeing the many sick and weak-looking
Jews, much to his shock. While searching, the boys are taken on a march with other
inmates by Sonderkommandos.
 At the house, Gretel and Elsa discover Bruno's disappearance. After they discover the
open window he went through, Elsa bursts into Ralf's meeting to alert him that Bruno is
missing. Ralf and his men mount a search. Led by a dog tracking Bruno's scent they find
his discarded clothing outside the fence. Elsa and Gretel are following along behind. Ralf
enters the camp, looking for him. Bruno, Shmuel and the other inmates are stopped
inside a changing room and are told to remove their clothes for a "shower". They are
packed into a gas chamber, where Bruno and Shmuel hold each other's hands.
A Schutzstaffel soldier pours some Zyklon B pellets inside, and the prisoners start
panicking, yelling and banging on the metal door. When Ralf realises that a gassing is
taking place, he cries out his son's name, and Elsa and Gretel, outside the camp but at
the spot where Bruno left his clothes and dug the hole, hear Ralf's cries and fall to their
knees in despair and mourn Bruno. The film ends by showing the closed door of the now
silent gas chamber, indicating that all prisoners, including Bruno and Shmuel, are dead.
he Boy in the Striped Pajamas summary key points:
 The Boy in the Striped Pajamas takes place in Nazi Germany, when
nine-year-old Bruno's father is given a position of power at Auschwitz,
and the family moves to a house outside of the camp. The camp is
visible from the family's house, and Bruno spends time walking along
its fence.
 He encounters a boy wearing striped pajamas and a golden armband

on the other side of a fence, who he becomes friends with.
 Bruno’s family hosts a dinner for Adolf Hitler and his companion Eva.
 Bruno’s imprisoned friend Shmuel asks for Bruno’s help in finding his
father. Bruno disguises himself as one of the prisoners and enters the
death camp.
 The two boys are killed in the gas chambers.
SOCIAL PEACE
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If you will find the nice you, then you;ll be that bext explorer in the world.
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in life there are things that you don't want to do, but you have to!
Is the opportunity grows if you prefer to live somenoe else? somewhere safe.
Bruno died together
The boy with Stripe Pajamas by John Boyne

“The thing about exploring is that you have to know whether the thing you've found is worth
finding. Some things are just sitting there, minding their own business, waiting to be discovered.
Like America. And other things are probably better off left alone. Like a dead mouse at the back
of the cupboard.”
― John Boyne, The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
tags: exploring
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“He looked down and did something quite out of character for him: he took hold of Shmuel's tiny
hand in his and squeezed it tightly.
"You're my best friend, Shmuel," he said. "My best friend for life.”
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“Bruno: We're not supposed to be friends, you and me. We're meant to be enemies. Did you know
that? ”
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“. . .only the victims and survivors can truly comprehend the awfulness of that time and place; the
rest of us live on the other side of the fence, staring through from our own comfortable place,
trying in our own clumsy ways to make sense of it all.”
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“Their lost voices Must continue to be heard.”
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“In his heart, he knew that there was no reason to be impolite to someone, even if they did work
for you. There was such a thing as manners after all.”
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“Heil Hitler," he said, which, he presumed, was another way of saying, "Well, goodbye for now,
have a pleasant afternoon.”
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“A line came into my mind, something that Hannah Arendt once said about the poet Auden: that
life had manifested the heart's invisible furies on his face.”
― John Boyne, The Heart's Invisible Furies
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“Well you've been brought here against your will, just like I have. If you ask me, we're all in the
same boat. And it's leaking.”
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“Maybe there were no villains in my mother’s story at all. Just men and women, trying to do their
best by each other. And failing.”
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“I think i'm just breathing, that's all. And there's a difference between breathing and being alive.”
― John Boyne, The Absolutist
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“Just because a man glances up at the sky at night does not make him an astronomer, you know.”
― John Boyne, The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas
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“Very slowly he turned his head back to look at Shmuel, who wasn't crying anymore, merely
staring at the floor and looking as if he was trying to convince his soul not to live inside his tiny
body anymore, but to slip away and sail to the door and rise up into the sky, gliding through the
clouds until it was very far away.'' -The Boy in the Striped Pajamas”
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“Bruno: Why do you wear pajamas all day?
Shmuel: The soldiers. They took all our clothes away.
Bruno: My dad's a soldier, but not the sort that takes people's clothes away. ”
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“(J)ust because your version of normal isn't the same as someone else's version doesn't mean that
there's anything wrong with you.”
― John Boyne, The Terrible Thing That Happened to Barnaby Brocket
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“But still there are moments when a brother and sister can lay down their instruments of torture
for a moment and speak as civilized human beings and Bruno decided to make this one of those
moments.”
“The people I see from my window. In the huts, in the distance. They're all dressed the same.' 'Ah,
those people,' said Father, nodding his head and smiling slightly. 'Those people...well, they're not
people at all, Bruno.' Bruno frowned. 'They're not?' he asked, unsure what Father meant by that.”
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“What you know about women,” replied Maude, “could be written in large font on the back of a
postage stamp and there’d still be room for the Lord’s Prayer.”
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“He looked the boy up and down as if he had never seen a child before and wasn't quite sure what
he was supposed to do with one: eat it, ignore it or kick it down the stairs.”
tags: children, humor
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“It reminds me of how grandmother always had the right costume for me to wear. You wear the
right outfit and you feel like the person you're pretending to be.”
“We don't have the luxury of thinking ... Some people make all the decisions for us”
tags: boys, jews, pajamas
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“In his imagination he had thought that all the huts were full of happy families, some of whom sat
outside on rocking chairs in the evening and told stories about how things were so much better
when they were children and they'd had respect for their elders, not like the children nowadays.
He thought that all the boys and girls who lived here would be in different groups, playing tennis
or football, skipping and drawing out squares for hopscotch on the ground. He had thought that
there would be a shop in the centre, and maybe a small café like the ones he had known in Berlin;
he had wondered whether there would be a fruit and vegetable stalls. As it turned out, all the
things that he thought might be there - weren't.”
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“life had manifested the heart’s invisible furies on his face.”
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“It's a big world, isn't it?' said Georgie. 'Do you think they hate each other on other planets too?”
― John Boyne, Stay Where You Are and Then Leave
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“Bruno opened his eyes in wonder at the things he saw. In his imagination he had tough that all
the huts were full of happy families, some of whom sat outside on rocking chairs in the evening
and told stories about how things were so much better when they were children and they'd had
nowadays. He thought that all the boys and girls who lived there would be in different groups,
playing tennis or football, skipping and drawing out squares for hopscotch on the ground.
As it turned out, all the things he thought might be there-wern't.'' -The boy in the striped
Pajamas”
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“It's not easy losing someone," she said. "It never goes away, does it?" "The Phantom Pain, they
call it," I said. "Like amputees get when they can still feel their missing limbs.”
tags: death, loss
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“It was a difficult time to be Irish, a difficult time to be twenty-one years of age and a difficult
time to be a man who was attracted to other men. To be all three simultaneously required a level
of subterfuge and guile that felt contrary to my nature.”
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“... Nine-year-old boys usually turn ten at some point. It's the nineteen-year-olds who have
difficulty turning twenty.”
― John Boyne, Stay Where You Are and Then Leave
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“—Tú eres mi mejor amigo —dijo—. Mi mejor amigo para toda la vida.”
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“One single syllable of intimacy and the world is put to rights.”
― John Boyne, The Absolutist
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“It occurs to me that even though Zoya and I are both still alive, my life is already over. She will
be taken from me soon and there will be no reason for me to continue without her. We are one
person, you see. We are GeorgyandZoya.”
― John Boyne, The House of Special Purpose
tags: inspirational-love
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“The dot that became a speck that became a blob that became a figure that became a boy”
― John Boyne
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“It's so unfair, I don't see whij I have to be stuck over here on this side of the fence where there's
no one to talk to and no one to play with and you get to have dozens of friends are probably
playing for hours every day, I'll have to speak to Father about it.”
tags: weird-isn-t-it
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“Can I ask you something? He added after a moment.
'yes,' said Shmuel.
Bruno thought about it. He wanted to phrase the question just right.
'why are there so many people on that side of the fence?' He asked. 'And what are you all doing
there?”
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“Some things are just sitting there, waiting to be discovered. Other things are probably better off
left alone”
― John Boyne, The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas
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“Do you enjoy being a writer, Mrs Avery?” asked Julian.
“No, of course not, she said. “It’s a hideous profession. Entered into by narcissists who think their
pathetic little imaginations will be of interest to people they’ve never met.”
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“He decided to talk to the Hopeless Case”
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Morrie is a professor not only by title or at school. He is a professor by heart

 Jack Lemmon – Morrie Schwartz

 Asa Butterfield as Bruno

he Boy in the Striped Pajamas summary key points:

 He encounters a boy wearing striped pajamas and a golden armband

 The two boys are killed in the gas chambers.

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