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Tuesdays With Morrie: Comparing The Book And Movie

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The book, Tuesdays with Morrie and the movie were both had the same characterization of Mitch and Morrie. Mitch was at first consumed into his job. He also lost faith in his dream to play the piano as a professional, he also was a very self centered man. But throughout the story he begins to change. He realizes that he is missing out on life. Later in the story he learns how to love and the meaning of love. Morrie stays the same wise,loving, and amazing man he was in both the movie and the book. The minor characters in the book and movie were the same, added, left out or were different. The minor characters that stayed the same were Charlotte, Connie, Eva, Morrie’s mother and Charlie. But some the minor characters were different like Janine was more important and more in the story in the movie than in the book. Some minor character that were left out of the movie but were in the book were Ted koppel, David, and Peter. Ted Koppel he was a Abc journalist and was the one that did the original story on Morrie. David was Morrie’s brother who had polio. Peter was Mitch’s brother, but mitch and peter lost touch after Peter got cancer. But through Morrie's lessons Mitch tries to get in touch with his brother and find a connection between them. …show more content…

The movie showed more of Mitch’s private life involving Janine, but the book didn’t involve his private life with Janine as much. In the book Janine was Mitch’s wife, but in the movie she was his girlfriend. Also in the movie Janine broke up with Mitch, in the book Janine never broke up with him. The treatment of Mich’s job were the same in the book and movie. They both kept Morrie busy, and cased tons of problems for him as

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