Just an Ordinary Day in an Ordinary World

      In the book "For One More Day" (by Mitch Albom) ordinary world is one that you and I live in everyday. In this book the protagonist is a man named, Charley. Charley has a low self esteem and needs to feel like he is important all the time. To feel this way Charley needs someone to tell him how important he is or else he feels useless. The most key thing in Charlie's ordinary world was his mother. His mother always made him feel wanted and good. Other key components were his father, sister and the game of baseball.

     "Mothers support certain illusions about their children, and one of my illusions was that I liked who I was, because she did."(Mitch Albom, For One More Day, pg4)

     In Charlie's ordinary world his mother creates all the peace with her love toward her 2 children while the father is always silently convincing Charley to side with him. When the father leaves it creates the most upset to Charlie's ordinary world and i think is the changing point for his ordinary world to his special world.  Charley doesn't want to leave his ordinary world because a world with his mother makes him feel as though his young dreams could still come true. Also he wants to feel important. Everyone wants to feel important, but you don't need to have someone tell you that you are you should know it yourself.

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What is going on in the book?

    This time I am reading the book, "For One More Day,"  by Mitch Albom. I have just got into it but already I have tonnes of questions. One for instance is why the main character would try so desperately to kill himself , and why is he still alive. I can only think that someone or something supernatural is keeping him alive for some reason.

   

Supernatural                                                                                                                                                                

What I think the reason he is trying to kill himself, was answered in the text after I read a little further. He tried to kill himself because when his mom died he felt as if no one would think of him as special, like she did.(this man is 40 years old.) He started to drink a lot after the funeral and then his wife and daughter moved away from him. the thing that really sent him over the edge was, he was not invited to his daughters wedding.

 A very Depressed man, just like the one in the  book