Mitch Albom'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.

Many things happen in the world, and some of them create internal conflicts. In Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom, the author is conflicted not getting in contact with his former teacher sooner. In Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl, Anne Frank has issues. Mitch Albom and Anne Frank have differences in what they learn from their conflicts.

Many people learn many things in many different ways. Most learn in school or church, some learn in asking questions, but I believe the best lessons are taught from a good friend. Tuesdays With Morrie is a true story of the remarkable lessons taught by a dying professor, Morrie Schwartz, to his pupil, Mitch Albom. Morrie teaches Mitch the lessons of life, lessons such as death, fear, aging, greed, marriage, family, society, forgiveness, and a meaningful life. This is a story of a special bond of friendship that was lost for many years, but never forgotten and simply picked up again at a crucial time of both Morrie's and Mitch's lives.

“Tuesdays with Morrie”, by Mitch Albom, is a nonfiction retelling of a student’s meetings with his former mentor. Mitch, now a corporate lapdog, revisits one of his old college professors after he hears that he has contracted ALS, a terminal disease with no known cure. Mitch and his old professor, Morrie, discuss Morrie’s life every tuesday, and these talks continuously make Mitch a better person than who he was. Throughout this book many different themes are touched upon. One of these such theme is the theme, and also Morrie’s saying, “Love or Perish”. Throughout the book Morrie regularly hammers in the point that to live without love, is to not live at all. Morrie is able to explain to Mitch that the essence of love is the reason which

‘The best of a book is not the thought which it contains, but the thought which it suggests; just as the charm of music dwells not in the tones but in the echoes of our hearts.’ The American poet Oliver Wendell Holmes once said. Tuesdays with Morrie is exactly the book that gets me through life and what it suggests always echoes in my mind, reminding me of every word I said and affecting every decision I make.

In today’s day and age money has become a god to our culture. The society in which we live in today has become a slave to things, vanity, and social standings. Living in this culture brings about emptiness inside people, causing them to just want more and more. In Tuesdays with Morrie, by Mitch Album, it is apparent that conforming to a money hungry society will only harm us by giving us a false sense of happiness and a never ending want for materialistic items; instead, we should focus on those we love and cherish. Money can’t bring you the happiness and fulfillment that the companionship that true friends and love can bring.

Tuesdays With Morrie, by Mitch Albom is a memoir with meaning that will live much longer than the paper it is printed on. We learn that we must properly allocate our time and efforts into all aspects of life; shining light on what is truly important. Our protagonist, Morrie, shows us the unimportance of materialistic goods and the things we leave underappreciated.

“It’s not just other people we need to forgive. We also need to forgive ourselves”.

Tuesdays with Morrie is a book about life. Morrie was a man who learned he had amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), which is a disease that weakens muscles and impacts physical function. When he learned that he had this disease one of the major quotes that he told Mitch was “When you learn to die, you learn to live.” I think it means, when you learn that you’re going to die you realize some of the morales you had in life were wrong. For example many people believe that money can bring you happiness. But when you learn your dying you learn that money can’t make you happy, but being around the people you care about can. Tuesdays with Morrie has changed my life in many ways, here’s how.

Mitch Albom was enrolled in a class that took place within his professor, Morrie's, house that taught him about the meaning of life. The class was one that was quite unique as it was taught by Morrie based on his life experiences and didn't require textbooks to aquire knowledge. Mitch would ask questions about life including topics of love, family, getting old, being apart of the community, work, forgiveness and death to his proffesor Morrie. Sometimes Morrie would pose questions to Mitch for him to answer. In essence, this class provided Mitch with the most important knowledge that one could take in, appreciate and apply to their own life. Occasionally within this class Mitch would have to help Morrie with simple tasks because he could no longer do things such as adjusting his head so that he was comfortable, getting in and out of his chair and putting his glasses on. For this class, there was only one student, and that student was Mitch and he was required to

Mitch Albom’s novel Tuesdays with Morrie delves into the complexities of the human condition from the stand point of an elderly man that is slowly dying from the disease ALS, Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. The man, Morrie, decides to spend the last of his time on earth spreading his wisdom to as many people as possible, teaching them a lot about the importance of life, as well as what is necessary to live life to the fullest and be truly happy. What Morrie teaches these people is something great poets have been doing for a very long time. In the novel Tuesdays with Morrie, Mitch Albom expresses themes and ideas in everyday life that relate back to poetry and can be applied to one’s perspective of the human condition.

Mitch Albom had written another favourite book of mine, so I know that “Tuesdays with Morrie” was based off the real-life relationship of the author and his college professor Morrie Schwartz. On graduation day, they had promised to keep in touch, but as time passed, distance and life kept the two from communicating. After seeing an interview with his old professor, Mitch had come to learn Morrie had been diagnosed with ALS and Lou Gehrig’s disease. The author had then made a pact to meet with his old professor every Tuesday to have some “final lessons”, discussing life, death and everything in between. The lessons from those Tuesday meetings make up

I have read many books in my lifetime. From picture books to books that have 60 chapters. I have read a couple series. But no book or series has had an impact on me like Mitch Albom’s Tuesdays With Morrie. The way Morrie saw life really had an effect on me. I have never met or heard of anyone who had the views on life like Morrie.

Mitch Albom is now considered a talented and vastly recognized author but before that he was very different. He was born on May 23, 1958 as the middle child to loving parents. He graduated, much like he states in his book that he graduated in 1979 from Brandeis University where he studied Sociology. But he never took a job in it instead he worked in writing and music. He took several jobs writing for several papers ranging from Sports Illustrated to The Philadelphia Enquirer before he landed a job in Detroit (Albom, About Mitch Albom).

“I leaned in and kissed him closely, my face against his, whiskers on whiskers, skin on skin, holding it there, longer than normal, in case it gave him even a split second of pleasure” from Mitch Albom’s novel, Tuesdays with Morrie (2007). Facing death and the unknown, Morrie talks with his pupil, Mitch, about his (Morrie’s) path through ageing and then, to death. An inspiring novel of a former professor and sharing his perspectives with a younger, man’s heart softening with the professor’s words of wisdom. Discussing ageing and what it means, fearing ageing, developing a fulfilled life, death and the meaning thereof, fearing death, and obtaining a positive attitude about an inevitable life event, are all important aspects to communicate with others.