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To live to the fullest, one must learn to appreciate their surroundings. In Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom, Morrie is an inspirational person who is determined to fight against his grueling battle of Lou Gehrig's disease. Through Morrie’s battle his former student, Mitch, visits his professor on Tuesdays; together they both create and revisit memories. Morrie’s expertise in philosophy composes the background the story, as his interest of this subject never recedes from him as his body slowly degrades. Before his death, Morrie once said, “Love of Perish” (Albom 92), which was an underlying theme of this memoir. Mitch uses this statement and theme to explore the meaning of life, as love is a quality money cannot buy. The reader can
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From the reader’s perspective, he is a wise, compassionate and open minded person, who is caring to everything he encompasses. The reader can infer Morrie believes love is the overarching value, that acts as a blanket and branches off into more values. Love is the quality that influences people’s choices; people are humans, and humans desire love and affection from one another. Psychology, humans are very social, we feel the need to have each other’s support and crave love. Without love, people don’t have a support system, and they are alone. Love is the glue the bridges the gaps of society and the world together, as fuels the growth of our relationships. Love also influences us to create our own …show more content…
Morrie’s uses the word ‘perish’ to direct the reader’s attention to believe people are given a choice either to love or die. Without compassion for others, individuals are have isolated themselves. People who have not felt loved by someone have self pity. Morrie gives the choice to “love or perish” (92) to show life is too short to live with regret, people must live their life to the fullest. Death is unpredictable, as death choses us. As a result, people get too caught up in themselves and become narcissistic. Soon enough, people begin to believe the world revolved around them, and only them. In reality people have it much worse, individuals who are wrapped up in themselves forget to see their issues on a larger
“I felt the seeds of death inside his shriveling frame, and as I laid him in his chair, adjusting his head on the pillow, I had the coldest realization that our time was running out.” (Pg. 59) That is what Mitch, a journal writer for the Detroit Free Press, said as he lifted his old college teacher from his wheelchair to his recliner. His old college teacher is Morrie Schwartz, a man that is dying from ALS otherwise known as Lou Gehrig disease. As the book goes on, Morrie reaches out to people who want to talk and he teaches them about the real lessons of life, while he is lying on his deathbed. Tuesdays With Morrie is an excellent book because Morrie teaches Mitch lessons about marriage, greed, and family that young adults can learn from.
Morrie is getting worse and “Nightline”wants to have another interview with him before he passes. Morrie thinks his death is going to be soon so he wants to get the interview over with. His aphorism is significant because when we’re in bed we’re not doing anything but laying down or sleeping. We’re not out being active we’re doing nothing like a dead person. Love to me means never giving up on someone and always being there for them. Love is a strong word because most of the people who say the word don’t mean it. Love is always being taken for granted because of how people today abuse the word. It’s important in our world because if we didn’t have love most of us wouldn’t be happy or alive. Morrie talks about how memories are what keeps a person alive. He says if we can still hear a person’s voice when they’re not around we won’t forget them.
For anger, in the mornings he will say to himself, “what in the hell did I do to deserve this!” He also becomes depressed and cries throughout the nights and into the mornings, but tells himself to stop. Morrie also accepts his death, and says many things such as “fear of death means life without meaning” and that he wants to be a living textbook.
This paragraph has Morrie teaching on how to accept death and how it’s as important as living. Morrie is afraid of his inevitable death but he knows he has to accept it because it will come and there is also something about death that makes Morrie feel bad for other people like the when he is watching the news and sees people that are across
"Tuesdays with Morrie" is about an elderly man named Morrie Shwartz diagnosed in his seventies with Lou Gehrig’s disease. Morrie has always lived his life in his own fashion, taking his path less stressful. And continues to do so until his dying day. One of his former students sitting thousands of miles away in Michigan stumbled upon this episode of “Nightline” on the television by chance and most likely by fate. This student, Mitch Album, decides to pay a visit to his favorite tutor in quiet suburb of Boston. As he was a professor of Sociology for many years, Morrie begins again to educate Mitch Album, in, what he calls, his “final thesis.” The old professor and the youthful student meet every Tuesday. As the disease progresses, Morrie shares his opinions on issues such as family, love, emotions, and aging. Although the cover of the book states “an old man, a young man, and life’s greatest lesson,” but the book actually provides numerous life lessons.
One of the quotes, “learn how to die and you learn to live”, is when Morrie realizes near the end of his life that his perspective of the world changed as his window in life grew smaller (Albom, 1997, p. 82). His view of life transformed into appreciating simple interactions with the people he loved and cherishing the moments of leaving behind a legacy when he accepted death. To me, this quote means to revel in the moment, treasure the present, live memorably, appreciate the people who mean the most to you, and to live life to the fullest. Another quote, “aging is not decay but growth”, is what Morrie was finally able to translate in the final chapters of his life (Albom, 1997, p. 118). Morrie felt a sense of fulfillment of his years in life and savors the time he has remaining as death looms closer. He feels that growing old is not tied in with a negative context of falling apart physically, but about the positive aspects of growing emotionally and spiritually. From my perspective, this quote signifies that the person you are at the end of life is an accumulation of all the years compressed together, continuing to flourish with the knowledge of life’s experiences. Only with personal experiences come wisdom and
In the novel Tuesdays with Morrie, readers can really learn a lot about love and the importance of relationships. Just like Morrie says in the movie “the most important thing in life is how to give out love and to let it come in.” The relationship between Mitch and Morrie really shows to others just how a meaningful relationship can affect a person’s life. Although the meaning of life is different from person to person, the true meaning of life is about loving oneself enough to be loved by others.
Morrie believed that death should be accepted and by accepting that this world is temporary we can recognize what really matters in life: love. When Mitch asks Morrie how facing death has affected him, Morrie answers, “…you focus on the essentials. When you realize you are going to die, you see everything much differently. …Learn how to die, and you learn how to live.” (Albom, 83).
Happiness can’t be replaced by items but can be replaced with loved ones. Buying things that have a cost doesn’t give one happiness; it just makes them materialistic. Morrie’s lesson connects with my life because when I was younger I didn’t really pay attention to brand names and money, but now I worry about not having brand named clothing in order to look like I fit in highschool. Being different is okay but it isn’t okay to be someone they are
Although Mitch disagreed, learning how to die while learning to live, is one of the best life lessons to take away from this book. On page 43 Morrie says “ So many people walk around with a meaningless life. They seem half- asleep, even when they’re busy doing things they think are important. This is because they’re chasing the wrong things.” Morrie did just as he said, as he was dying.
Love is important because it satisfies the emotional needs of every human being and it’s essential to our lives. Love is what binds us together as families, friends, and partners. It’s the emotion that allows
The meeting went so well that they meet for the next fourteen Tuesdays, up until Morrie passes away. During each of these meetings, they discuss a different topic about life, these topics make up the content of the book and include death, love, culture, marriage, regret and the world we live in, among many others. I interviewed my grandmother, she is 75 and lives in West Haven.
Love is having compassion for others, sharing feelings and your life with another person, as well as, having faith in others and forgiving those we love for the any errs that they may make. Most of all, we must be committed to those we love. Of course, this is only my opinion. No matter how long I try to explain what love is ultimately it is up to you, the reader, to define what love is to you. So let me leave you now with the words of the great Humanist Erich Fromm, "Can anything be learned about the art of love, except by practicing it?"
Tuesdays with Morrie, written by Mitch Albom, is a story of the love between a man and his college professor, Morrie Schwartz. This true story captures the compassion and wisdom of a man who only knew good in his heart and lived his life to the fullest up until the very last breath of his happily fulfilled life. When Mitch learned of Morrie’s illness, the began the last class of Morrie’s life together and together tried to uncover “The Meaning of Life.” These meetings included discussions on everything from the world when you enter it to the world when you say goodbye. Morrie Schwartz was a man of great wisdom who loved and enjoyed to see and experience simplicity in life, something beyond life’s most challenging and unanswered mysteries. Morrie was a one of a kind teacher who taught Mitch about the most important thing anyone can ever learn: life. He taught Mitch about his culture, about trust, and perhaps most importantly, about how to live.
What is love? Love is a very special and meaningful word to each human being. Each human being has his/her own thoughts about love to guide himself/herself to land safely and smoothly into the kingdom of Love. Without this preconceived idea of love, people would be acting like a blind person searching for the light with thousand of obstacles in front of him.