Tuesdays With Morrie

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Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom published in 1997, is a book that people long to read for many years. Within this book it creates a lesson for the reader, it teaches you to hold on to what you have and live your life no matter what life throws at you. Reading this book has really impacted my life by how I view things that come my way and also how I take in things that come my way. I’ve realized that when something doesn’t go your way, you can’t sit there and allow it to control you in a negative way, we have the power to make those changes into a positive way. The way this book grasped onto my heart so early in the book was beyond words, I was so into the book I couldn’t put it down half the time. I extremely recommend this book to people who want to get hooked fast and with a amazing story that can happen in real …show more content…

Tuesdays with Morrie was a book that had your tears at the edge of your eyes every second, Mitch a former student of Morrie during college heard about his old professor dying from ALS (Lou Gehrig’s disease when you no longer have control of your muscles). Mitch knew he had broken his promise from fifteen years ago about staying in touch with his “Coach”, Mitch pushed aside his busy schedule from working for a sports article business, and made his way to see his coach in West Newton, Massachusetts. Mitch devotes all his time now to focusing on Morrie and making his last week's memorable for both of them. Throughout all the troubles Mitch faces through the way, he learns to face them head on and ends of happy with the women of his dreams. He also learns many lessons from Morrie himself that Mitch will never forget. However, the book and the movie are very different in the way the plot is and how the characters are presented in each of the literary devices, both the movie and the book show devotion in each of the characters themselves.

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