Tuesdays With Morrie Film Analysis

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Morrie was an old man, and he was dying of ALS or Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis. Mitch Albom was a workaholic who loved his work too much. Mitch had kept a promise to his professor to keep in touch with him, but ever did, and sixteen years later, Mitch turned on the TV one day to find his old professor, Morrie, talking about his final project: death. This sparked Mitch to think about his old professor, and would soon be the inspiration the famous book Tuesdays with Morrie, based on the true story about Morrie’s last lesson, teaching Mitch about life.

The symbolic interactionism perspective is best defined as society being the product of everyday life experiences. Humans act a certain way toward things based on the meanings they have for them, these meanings stem from social interaction. Social interaction is the way people act with one another and how they modify their behavior in the presence of others. The best example in the novel that portrays the idea of social interaction is when Mitch observes that when visitors come to see Morrie they go in happy prepared to bring up certain topics, but at the end they come out sad. It is not that Morrie has taken pity on his visitors, but rather encouraged them to talk about their own lives instead of focusing on his. His example also ties in to the concept of role taking. Role taking is the ability for an individual to place himself or herself in someone else’s position. Ideally, it would be presumed that since Morrie is the one suffering a slow and painful death he would

Even in Morrie’s dying state, the slightest brush of skin to skin contact with Mitch is enough to make Morrie happy. Morrie relays that without his wife, without his nurses, and most importantly without Mitch, he would not have been able to last as long as he did with his ALS. Another theme throughout the book is that Morrie teaches Mitch to live life his own way. Morrie is disgusted by america’s lust for greed, fakeness, and violence, and teaches to establish your own way of thinking. While the O.J. Simpson case was going on, Morrie completely shut himself off from the case, and instead focused on his family and friends. Morrie built his life on the foundation of love and forgiving, two things that are shunned in America, in Morrie’s eyes. Morrie teaches Mitch that creating his own values and beliefs leads to a much more enjoyable life than accepting mainstream America. One more theme evident in “Tuesdays with Morrie” is the theme that life is full of choices. Morrie says early on in the book that he had two choices when he got sick, feel sorry for himself or do something to try and help the world. Morrie choose the second

In Tuesdays with Morrie, the main character turns the inhumanity in his life around and is humane to others to make up for

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Along with the argument of love, towards the end of the book, Morrie was on the borderline of death. He was making life easy for him and enjoying every moment of his last few weeks and months. Morrie thought of everything in a positive way and even turned every negative thought to a positive thought when Mitch questioned him. Morrie set goals for himself like talking on as many talk shows as possible to let people know his life story. Speaking of goals, I believe an important aphorism in this book is about life goals and dreams. In the novel, Morrie states,”If you really want it, then you will make your dream happen”(47). From this quote, I believe this is important because if you don’t set goals for yourself then everything could just go wrong. This relates to me because I try to set goals for my business. My dad always says, if you fail to plan, then you plan to fail. I don't want to fail. Without goals, I would continue on with bad habits and procrastination with most things. Without setting goals would keep me unorganized and messy. This quote proves I need to set goals because then I might start depending on

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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

Tuesdays with Morrie, was based on a true story about friendship and lessons learned. It’s about a sports writer, Mitch and former sociology professor, Morrie, who is in his last days of life after being diagnosed with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) and their rekindled relationship after many years. They first met on the campus grounds at Brandeis University. This never forgotten relationship was simply picked back up at a crucial time in both Mitch’s and Morrie’s life. After seeing his professor in an interview on the show “Nightline”, Mitch is reminded of a promise he made sixteen years earlier to keep in touch. Since the airing of that

Throughout this class, various discussions and blogs have been used to analyze the different elements of films such as theme, cinematic techniques and genre. It is time to bring all of these separate elements together in the analysis of one specific film, according to class text, “analyzing levels of meaning below the surface story can greatly enhance enjoyment as well as understanding of a film” (Goodykoontz & Jacobs, 2014. p. 10.03). There are several different approaches to film analysis including formalist, auteurist, and generic or any combination thereof. Utilizing a genre theory lens, the 1956 film The Searchers will be analyzed addressing contextual information, story/plot, aesthetic choices, social/personal impact and how these areas come together to develop the film.

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