Commentary On The Book Tuesdays With Morrie

All three of the authors use literary devices in their own way to do a variety of things, whether that be getting a certain message across, exaggerating something, or showing the narrator’s reactions to certain things. In all three of the stories, the authors make use of flashbacks. In Big Boy, the author provides a flashback of his mother telling him that everyone defecates. He does this to show the reader that he understands that fecal matter is normal, but he still doesn’t want to be blamed for the situation he was in. In Tuesday’s with Morrie, several flashbacks are provided between all the chapters to give the reader some insight as to how Mitch and Morrie’s friendship grew. In The Last Lecture, the author talks about his days playing football as a teenager and he often references back to things his coach did. He talks about his coach’s antics in order to get across that everything can be a learning experience.

In the novel tuesdays with Morrie, a man by the name of Mitch Albom goes to visit his old sociology professor, Morrie Schwartz, after hearing word that Morrie was dying from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) or most commonly known as Lou Gehrig’s disease. During their last few Tuesday meetings Morrie gave Mitch serious advice on life death and everything in between. This paper will address various concepts in sociology that are portrayed in the novel with the help of the symbolic interactionism perspective.

Howard Schultz stated, “In times of adversity and change, we really discover who we are and what we’re made of “. Adversity is a time when everything seems to be very bad. It is a time where most want to give up because it is too hard for them to go on. Morrie Schwartz and Elie Wiesel are both faced with adversity, but in different ways. In the novel, Tuesdays with Morrie, written by Mitch Albom, Morrie is faced with a disease that is killing him. In the novel, Night, written by Elie Wiesel, Elie, himself, is faced with death and does not really know he is facing death. Both men are facing a huge difficulties, but they both handled it in different ways. Morrie and Elie are both faced with adversity, but they both use faith and other people

Mitch has a very courteous and gregarious perspective on life. He basically believes that everyone deserves a chance. When he first meets Blanche, he begins to fall in love with her but soon after Stanley reveals the true Blanche to Mitch, he feels betrayed. At that point, his perspective changed because, he begins to become a little more like Stanley. An example of this is when he finds out and comes to meet Blanche and tells her

Adversity is described by Dictionary.com as “adverse or unfavorable fortune or fate; a condition marked by a misfortune, calamity, or distress.” Adversity can happen everywhere among us and can take the chance to hit us when we are having a good day. In the books Tuesdays with Morrie and Night, adversity hits these characters hard. In Tuesdays with Morrie, the author Mitch Albom writes about his experience with his beloved college professor, Morrie Schwartz, and Morrie’s battles with a disease called ALS. In Night, the author and the main character, Elie Wiesel, goes through adversity as well at a concentration camp during the Holocaust. Handling the adversity is rather difficult, especially when we want to give up after we are hit with a traumatic blow. However, these characters in these two completely different books, show that adversity cannot bring them down.

His friends changed as well. The few friends Mitchel had outside of his family where extreme catholics as well, and stopped talking to him when he changed the way he did. So he branched out, and begun hanging out with the kids in his neighborhood he had casually known for years. During his sophomore year, Mitchell began hanging out with these new friends everyday. Everyday their oldest friend Ricardo would drive him and his friend Alejandro from school to a dealer's house, and they would stay at the dealer's house and smoke marijuana till they had to go home late at night. However even though Mitchell did this every day, his grades never fell. He still helped his family around the house and spent time with them, and Mitchell realized his dad had been right. Why should he live his life by standards set by other people? Why not make his own morals? And that's what he

Thus, he goes to hide in the bathroom for a while. This shows the internal conflict that build on Mitch’s life because of his sick mother. He is a caring man

Mitch is extremely loyal, he upholds his desires of play, drink, and socializing to look after her dying elderly mother. Mitch is introduced coming back from bowling, arguing with his friends, who propose to play poker at his house; the proposal outrages him, vociferating, “No--not at my place. My mother's still

In Tuesdays with Morrie, Morrie felt like as you age and begin your life you don't think about always enjoying life and living to the fullest. Morrie lived his life to the fullest and he's life with aging. As Morrie aged he saw how much he enjoyed his life. He also wouldn't want to go back to his young age and relive it. As Morrie told mitch, "I had my time in my thirties, now it's my time to be seventy-eight. Morrie wasn't upset to age he enjoyed it. Morrie enjoys because he gets to look back and see all the things he accomplished and all the memories. He has so many so experience he doesn't want to take back. Morrie has embraced aging. Morrie had lived his life to it's fullest potential. Morrie realized he was going to age and just had to

Mitch desperately wants to exert his masculinity and be apart of the guys; as seen in scene three Stanley teases him about how he never stays during guy nights because of his sick mother whom is living at home. Mitch says “Poker

When was the last time that you had a true heart to heart with someone? When did you last truly feel an emotion? How many times have you sent a laugh to someone through the phone without even smirking? The world we live in is becoming less and less human. As technologies develop we develop with them and find ourselves to be lost without electronics. This is leading us down a path that will dehumanize the modern population leaving the human race more like robots. I believe that Tuesdays with Morrie may be able to help change the path that we are on.

Tuesdays with Morrie explores the deeper meanings of what matters in life. Mitch, a young college graduate, at the beginning of the novel, recalls his exciting and informative class periods with his professor, Morrie. Mitch had a close relationship with Morrie when he was in college, but upon graduation, the two lost touch. One day, Mitch discovers that Morrie is ill, and decides to find him. When the two finally reunite, they decide to consistently meet on Tuesdays. Each Tuesday, Mitch goes to Morrie’s home, and records Morrie’s tales of life lessons, wisdom, and attitude. The pair laugh, cry, and learn from each other as Morrie’s life quickly fades. Mitch gains an enormous amount of wisdom from Morrie. This novel is an account of what readers

However, as Mitch enters the real world he fails to follow through on his promise, and

Mitch saw the way they cared, respected, and understood each

by his father never to talk about her. It was a terrible burden to Morrie.