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.

When we are still children, running around the playground with our friends, our goals in life and what we want to be when we grow up are much different than later in life. We want to me mermaids, princesses, astronauts. When we get older though our values change. Instead of going after what our heart really wants to do, we go after the jobs that offer the biggest paycheck. Our culture’s minds have been warped and bent towards the desire to have a bigger house, a cooler car, and fancier clothes. We put what we think is right in our minds over what we truly love to do deep down in our hearts. The novel Tuesdays With Morrie by Mitch Albom, is about a sociology professor, Morrie Schwartz, who has been given his death sentence. He reconnects with his former student and current sports journalist, Mitch Albom, to try to remold his mind like soft clay to resist the pull of money and fame that today’s society provides. In this story, the author uses descriptive language, figurative language, and repetition for effect, to capture the theme that money will never

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.

“Turn on the faucet. Wash yourself with emotion. It won’t hurt you. It will only help. if you let the fear inside, if you pull it on like a familiar shirt, then you can say ‘All right, its just fear, I dont have to let it control me. I see it for it is.”(Albom 105) Tuesdays with Morrie is about an old man dying of AlS teaching a younger man, Mitch, how to love, forgive, and be grateful. While reading Tuesdays with Morrie, I found many examples of what someone can learn by reading the book. There are many lessons to be learned throughout the entire novel.

Tuesdays with Morrie Sometimes people forget what is important in life. They live life going about everything all wrong, thinking what really is not important is and being too blind to see what is. Some people actually know what is important in life though. In the memoir Tuesdays with Morrie, Morrie tells people how to live life through accepting love, family and death.

My project for the novel "Tuesday's with Morrie" is a picture frame with aphorisms inside. The picture frame will have fourteen of my favorite aphorisms from the novel. With the fourteen aphorisms there will be a few pictures to tie the picture frame together. There are fourteen aphorisms because Mitch sees Morrie on fourteen Tuesday's before Morrie dies. I made this project so I could have the picture frame remind me to stay positive. Aphorisms help me continue to stay positive even if I don't want to be positive because of the meanings behind them.

The book, Tuesdays With Morrie sets out to discover the thoughts of Morrie Schwartz and answers his views on questions such as: are you satisfied with where you are in life. are you content with your surroundings, the people in your life and even yourself? Do you fear death or are imartacail to that fact of life? While reading an excerpt from this book the reader can ask themselves these questions too, and compare and contrast their answers to how Morrie (a well rounded, educated, college professor) views similar topics in his later life.

In "Tuesdays with Morrie", Morrie expresses how through aging we grow. Aging is not a state of decay, but growth on who you are becoming, which most people are oblivious to that point of view.

In the book “Tuesdays with Morrie” the news constantly shown in the book is used to show people who had lost their values, which is what Morrie taught. This is shown through the story by the Detroit newspaper strikes, the woman who shot her husband and two daughters, and O. J. Simpson.         The first news story that shows the opposite of Morrie’s teachings is the Detroit newspaper strikes. In these strikes, Detroit newspaper workers were protesting their work places so they could get better wages and workplace quality. In the book Morrie said, “Do you know how they brainwash people?

1.) After Morrie received his diagnosis, he asked himself: Do I wither up and disappear, or do I make the best of my time left? (Albom 10). What do you suppose navigates human beings in this situation toward an answer to such a question?

After reading the book, Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom, it had reckoned my idea of the elderly’s value in today’s society. The book writer, Mitch Albom, is a best-selling author, journalist, screenwriter, playwright, radio and television broadcaster, philanthropist, and musician. Mitch (2012) Born on May 23rd, 1958, in Passaic, New Jersey, Mitch moved on to Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts for bachelors in sociology. Mitch worked several years in night clubs and joined various bands in high school and college.

In page 108 of Mitch Albom’s novel titled Tuesdays with Morrie, Morrie Schwartz is asked if he had the chance to reincarnate, in what form would he come back as. Morrie’s reply is a gazelle. His choice is interesting because gazelles are one of the most underrated animals in the world. Gazelles are thin and graceful antelopes that are found in Africa and Asia. They bear resemblance to deer and are in the same family as cattle, sheep and goats. Gazelles can be identified by their curved horns, tan coats and white rumps. Often, there are stripes, spots or random markings on their coats. Although their outside appearance is gorgeous, it is not much help when it comes to fleeing from their predators. All animals rely on a certain characteristic

In the book, Tuesdays with Morrie the readers follow the lives and relationship of Morrie Schwartz and Mitch Albom. Morrie was a professor in Brandeis University where Mitch attended. The story goes on as to how they lose touch over the years and eventually find each other again and build a strong relationship. This friendship begins when Mitch finds out Morrie is sick and his health is slowly deteriorating. Over the weeks, the two-new found friend will hold conversations about love, life and family.

In Tuesday’s with Morrie, there are many times that Morrie has given multiple life stories that always come along with complications. In the end, Morries always explained how anyone can overcome fears and how to deal with certain consequences. In the end the result is always outstandingly beautiful. Every life has a different story to tell and multiple pictures to be drawn. Along with the stories and pictures comes lasting influences on our

Today’s society does not use love and compassion with family and the ones we love-- instead, we believe cell phones, makeup, and material items will give us love. Tuesdays With Morrie tells the life of Morrie Schwartz, and how he realized through the struggle of ALS to appreciate everything in his life: people, the outdoors, every living thing, and especially teaching. Throughout the novel, Morrie stated a plethora of proverbs such as: “The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in”(Schwartz 52). Tuesdays With Morrie exposes teenagers in schools to the life of a man who rejected popular cultural values. This is exactly what kids of today need to do. If our society would not put so much effort or