Tuesday's with Morrie and A child called it
In life, we must all ask the question as to whether or not we have love in our lives. It is of great importance that we analyze the way we live and determine if love is ubiquitous within us. Throughout the stories of Tuesday's with Morrie and A child called it, we are given a thematic concept that true happiness is only attained through the love and caring of others, as well as that of yourself. This connecting theme from both novels is exemplified through Morrie's teachings and relationships, Dave's abusive and torturing home-life, and Mitch's lessons on how to find and hone the value of love. First, I will expand on how Morrie's love is expressed and gained through significant life lessons and his emotional relationships with his friends and family.
Morrie Schwartz was a fun-loving old man, who in Tuesday's with Morrie, seemed to be just 10 years old. His love for dancing made him the jubilant character he was portrayed to be. In the story, love seemed to be an underlying concept that was recurrent in many of his teachings to Mitch. Morrie was one who was never ashamed of showing emotions. The recurrent hugs and kisses that he gave to Mitch were sincere forms of gratitude, which ultimately began from his childhood, since he was deprived of sentiment. Morrie's past forever changed his outlook on life, as he spread his message of loving one another.
Morrie's most important saying was, "The way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others and creating something that gives you purpose and meaning." Morrie lived by this quote, as he loved to spend time walking and conversing with friends. He also started the Greenhouse project, which gave the poor health benefits...
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...rst steps in which his life becomes more meaningful and consumed with love. Ironically, Mitch's new life takes a greater course at the end of the book, when he sheds his first tear. Once he allows himself to express love to others, he can finally live a life of true happiness.
As you can see, both books shared a common thematic reference that is an important life lesson. The way we observe how Morrie gains happiness in life at his ill old age is inspiring. The way we understand how love can sometimes be deprived from us, like in Dave
Pelzer's case, is enlightening. And the manner in which we learn how to change our lifestyles to find happiness like Mitch has done, is all but surreal. Our society is filled with many barriers, but the key is to find our path in life and keep moving to hold on to the love and companionship from our friends, family, as well as ourselves.
their goals by meeting their needs in life by using what was given to them.
What is the point of living? If you type this question into Google, you will get many of the following answers: leave a legacy, get rich, love and explore. The one answer that comes up a lot of times is to always be satisfied. We as humans think that we can be satisfied when we have a great career, family, kids, and lots of money. If we look in the bible at the book of Ecclesiastes we can see the story of a man that has everything he can possibly want. I like to call them the three W’s (Wisdom, wealth, women). Although he had all these things he still wasn’t satisfied. In the first verse in Ecclesiastes he starts off by saying “Meaningless! Meaningless!...Everything is meaningless.” Throughout this book we can see that the message is whatever materialistic things we want in life will never fulfill our lives, so we need to look at God and build a relationship with him because only then we will be fulfilled (plus we get to go to heaven). The author put it best “The end of the matter; all has been heard. Fear God, and keep his commandments; for that it is the whole duty of everyone” (Ecclesiastes 12:13).
It is to live in more than one world, to prevent the past from fading and to call up the future to illuminate it.
Morrie Schwartz and Mitch Albon are the main characters in the book Tuesdays with Morrie. Tuesdays with Morrie is the last lesson between Morrie, a college professor and Mitch Albom, one of his former students who is also the author of the book. After watching his college professor in an interview on the "Nightline" show, the author recalls a promise which he made sixteen years ago to continue keeping in touch with him. Now suffering from ALS, Morrie has very little time left, and Mitch knows this fact. Due to that, Mitch takes a trip from Michigan to Massachusetts so that he can meet him. Their meeting is successful and affects both of them so much to the extent that they meet for the following fourteen successive Tuesdays, up till Morrie
lives. Many people search for hope, happiness and fulfillment when they should not be searching
The meaning of life is to find the meaning of life. Is it not? We all go through each day trying to figure out which road out the infinite amount of paths will lead us in a better direction where happiness is prominent and society is flawless. However, not every single human being is going to fit on that narrow, one-lane highway to success. Bad choices, accidents, fate, family matters, society, temptation, anger, rage, addiction, and loss of hope can all be deciding factors in opting to choose that wrong path to self-destruction. The adverse thing is, once you've traveled so far down the road, you get so discouraged that you feel like you can never turn back or make up for the "lost time."
Mitch Albom’s novel Tuesdays with Morrie delves into the complexities of the human condition from the stand point of an elderly man that is slowly dying from the disease ALS, Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. The man, Morrie, decides to spend the last of his time on earth spreading his wisdom to as many people as possible, teaching them a lot about the importance of life, as well as what is necessary to live life to the fullest and be truly happy. What Morrie teaches these people is something great poets have been doing for a very long time. In the novel Tuesdays with Morrie, Mitch Albom expresses themes and ideas in everyday life that relate back to poetry and can be applied to one’s perspective of the human condition.
How can we achieve the purpose of life? What are some of the major aspects of the method or way of life that leads to that attainment?
Mitch Albom, author of Tuesdays with Morrie, is flipping through his TV stations one night and he heard these words come from his TV set- “Who is Morrie Schwartz?”- And Mitch went numb. Mitch found out through the TV show “Nightline” that his life long friend and teacher is dying and Mitch knows that he has to go and see him. Mitch goes to see his old college professor and what starts out as a one-day meeting turns into a four-month “class”.
How to give a summary of such a powerful book seems to me to be beyond comprehension. The book has left me so full of life, so committed to changing the way I behave, the way I think, the way I feel about life, death, how I treat others, and how I spend the hours of everyday. The book has left me with thousands of zooming thoughts in my head, like moths circling a light bulb, just trying to feel the soothing heat being radiated from it’s ember glow. The way I feel after reading this book, must be how an immigrant felt when taking those first steps onto American soil. Extremely overwhelmed yet so filled with anticipation for the new life they can lead, if only they make the right choices for themselves, and not fall into the pitfalls of society’s culture, but make a culture of their own. “ Invest in the human family. Invest in people. Build a community of those you love and who love you”
I believe that the very purpose of our life is to seek happiness. Whether one believes in religion or not, whether one believes in this religion or that religion, we all are seeking something better in life. So, I think, the very motion of our life is towards happiness (Dalai Lama & Cutler, 1998, p. 15).
To see the world, things dangerous to come to, to see behind walls, draw closer, to find each other, and to feel. That is the purpose of life”.- Walter Mitty (Movie).
to achieve that goal, but rather just to set our faces toward peace, and act and speak
us to nurture life, to love life, and to live it. Let's do our best.
Recognizing who we are not is good in knowing who we are, but it is only the first step