Analyzing Mitch's 'Tuesdays With Morrie'

Tuesdays with Morrie is an inspirational book that helps open many people's’ mind and perspective of the world and themselves. Throughout this essay you’ll see the comparisons of my life and thoughts contrasted with a few of the discussions Morrie had with Mitch on their Tuesdays. Some of the discussions I could personally and deeply connect with, but the others I couldn’t as much. Every Tuesday discussion Morrie had with Mitch had a meaning and purpose behind it. Emotions, culture, and family are the main Tuesday discussion i’ll be focused on.

Morrie teaches us so many ways to become a better person in life. For example, he strongly believes that you should not be scared or ashamed about death. Morrie brings up death many times

Have you ever read a book that changed your life? The book Tuesdays with Morrie has many saying in it called aphorisms. Morrie has multiple of these, many of which have affected me. The three aphorisms that have affected me the most are “Don’t let go too soon, but don’t hang on too long.”, “You’re not a wave, you are a part of the ocean.“, and “Death ends a life, not a relationship.”

Passage #1: "We are too involved in materialistic things, and they don't satisfy us. The loving relationships we have, the universe around us, we take these things for granted" (84). One of the greatest lessons that death has to offer is how to be appreciative of yourself but more importantly, the people and things around you. Morrie has done a great job of demonstrating this through the quote "[you] can go out there, outside any time. You can run up and down the block and go crazy. I can't do that ... But you know what? I appreciate that window more than you do" (84). Through this quote, Morrie shows how his limits do not hinder him

The point of view was exclusively presented through Mitch. Mitch had the ability to communicate Morrie’s perception, how Mitch described himself, and how Mitch compared himself before and after Morrie’s death. Mitch described Morrie’s personality and how he had felt about things by describing most of his earlier experiences with Morrie and by describing his personality after Morrie had been diagnosed with ALS. Throughout the memoir, Mitch characterized his personality as being a person who “never [cried]” (51), “traded lots of dreams for a bigger paycheck, and… never… realized

Community & Compassion: How the World has Changed Over the Years Modern ideals can have negative effects on the world. In the book Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom, an old man named Morrie is diagnosed and dies of ALS; which is a terribly debilitating disease that slowly paralyses its victims until the body is deprived of oxygen. Through his death Morrie is doing what he did best : teaching that life without love or empathy is worthless. This book is poignant, it takes the reader on a journey through life, death and the gray area in between. The values that Morrie embodies ring true universally--community, diversity, and compassion, ideals that characterize our human existence.

“Do things sooner than later…..giving to others.” Morrie influenced Mitch by being a giver. Morrie always gave back to others and became a different person. Morrie is a giver because he’s a professor who teaches knowledge in a mysterious by bringing out the best in people and making them think. Mitch provided a people a great story to read, to appreciate, and to understand meaning/things in life. Everyone has a story and Morrie Schwartz is a good one to be told.

The aim of this story Tuesday's With Morrie, by Mitch Albom is to encourage the individual to live a

Morrie stresses the importance of focusing on love instead of worrying about the troubles in life. He best summarizes his ideas on love in a few sentences:

Explain what Morrie meant by the following aphorisms and how you can relate personally to them.

What I took from my and others experiences is the stuff that I'm made up of. Hearing people's stories and wisdom changes the view of life, setting me up for the future. There is also my own experiences that I went through, that put me through the struggle and making me stronger. Everyone in life has a role model, for everyone they are different and, there actions/presents in our lives have a great impact on our own actions and thinking.

My favorite chapter was “The Audiovisual. Part Two.” That chapter was a chapter that I could relate to the most. I lost my Dad to cancer at the age one. Even though I was too young to remember what happened. I still wake up everyday feeling like a piece of me is missing. When Morrie talked about his Mom, I felt that I could relate to him. His Mom passed away when he was a kid, yet seventy years later, he still remembers it like it was yesterday. Even with time, all wounds cannot be completely healed; we just learn to live with it.

Morrie believes the culture does not make people feel good about themselves. "And you have to be strong enough to say if the culture doesn't work, don't buy it," Morrie claims that most people are unhappier than he is, even in the state of health he is in. Morrie is this way because he has accepted that he is going to die, but he is going to make the most out of the time he has left. He makes the point of how he is surrounded by thoughtful, caring, and loving people. Towards the end of "The Classroom," Morrie is explaining the "tension of opposites". In order for one to achieve something they will struggle first, "like a pull on a rubber band". Mitch asks which side wins? Morrie replies "Love wins. Love always wins". Morrie is relating the

Morrie thinks that everyone is missing something in their lives whether that's love or expressing one's true self. ¨What if today were my last day on Earth?¨ (Albom 64). Morrie, was very wise when he stated this. When people live life, they wanted to do things as a child but couldn't because they were too scared or felt like it but didn't do it. Such as riding a bike or learning how to talk to talk to new people without being shy and reserved. As a kid in fifth grade, I really liked this girl who had black hair, black eyes, funny, and she was kind. I really felt confident in my abilities about showing her how I felt towards her. They day finally came to ask her how I felt and when I saw her I froze in fear that she would say no and I didn't say a word to her. After that failure, me and her never spoke to each other ever again. I really regretted not saying anything because she could've been a really good friend who cared. To this day, I go back to that memory and forget to never freeze up when I meet new people or ask someone

Within this novel, Morrie embraced his mortality with “love, acceptance and open communication” as he gave the reader a glimpse into what he considered to be “The Meaning of Life.” Using Mitch Albom as a vessel to pen his “own culture values,” Morrie was able to define the contradictions between others vision of “popular culture values” and his style of truly living through “life, death and reincarnation.” With the use of materials obtained from the course, this writer was able to summarize various observations about Morrie’s “final lecture” on life, death and family amidst his perceptual understanding that reorganized “aging as growth and not