How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #4
As my visits with Morrie go on, I begin to read about death, how different cultures view the final passage. There is a tribe in the North American Arctic, for example, who believes that all things on earth have a soul that exists in a miniature form of the body that holds it—so that a deer has a tiny dear inside it, and a man has a tiny man inside him. When the large being dies, that tiny being lives on. (16.23)
Mitch is doing his own research about spiritual things. He finds this obscure tribal belief that says that the soul is a mini version of the creature it lives inside. He seems more fascinated by the idea of it than thinking that it's true.
Quote #5
"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." (21.30)
Morrie is saying that despite what each of us believes, we should be able to recognize what makes us all the same—faith shouldn't be something that keeps people apart. Clearly, Morrie values this one human family more than particulars about what put us here on earth and where we'll go afterwards.
Quote #6
Koppel was near tears. "You done good."
"You think so?" Morrie rolled his eyes toward the ceiling. "I'm bargaining with Him up there now. I'm asking Him, 'Do I get to be one of the angels?'"
It was the first time Morrie admitted talking to God. (22.28)
As Mitch says, this is the first time that Morrie ever admits that he talks to God. Again, this is a little strange since he's on his deathbed and seems very frank about most things that he thinks. He doesn't mention it again.