Analyzing Mitch Albom's Tuesdays With Morrie
Mitch Albom
1997
Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group, Inc. Tuesdays with Morrie
Tuesdays with Morrie:
An old man, a young man, and life's greatest lesson
Tuesdays with Morrie, by Mitch Albom, is a lesson book on living life. One may easily argue that this book has two separate authors, because there are two separate views to be seen within its pages. Author Mitch Albom tells the story of a young man who travels to reunite wit his dying former college professor. The professor Morrie Schwartz, however, teaches the wisdom of life that is conveyed through the pages of this book. Morrie teaches many different lessons on life and Tuesdays with Morrie is the product of what Mitch Albom has learned from him. Though Morrie's lessons are universal, …show more content…
Morrie and Mitch met on a total of fifteen Tuesdays to discuss a new topic each week. Morrie had a lifetime of wisdom to give and Mitch came to the realization that he had an innumerable amount of questions to ask about life. Morrie once told Mitch, "Once you learn how to die, you learn how to live (Albom 82)." Morrie ironically relished the knowledge that death brought to him. Though his life was at its end, the fact that Morrie could see the important things in life more clearly than ever because of it fulfilled him. He took the time he had with his precious wisdom to keep teaching as he had for his entire …show more content…
Morrie meant to teach Mitch how to love and feel. It was his belief that human love and affection are the most crucial things to life. The old professor told Mitch, "The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love; and to let it come in (Albom 52)." Morrie conveys his basic thesis, which is his belief that feelings of shortcoming, overcompensation, or interminable strive for material things in every person is merely a quest to fill a void where they are desperate for love. He is both wise and naive in this belief that everyone is basically exactly the same (like
1997
Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group, Inc. Tuesdays with Morrie
Tuesdays with Morrie:
An old man, a young man, and life's greatest lesson
Tuesdays with Morrie, by Mitch Albom, is a lesson book on living life. One may easily argue that this book has two separate authors, because there are two separate views to be seen within its pages. Author Mitch Albom tells the story of a young man who travels to reunite wit his dying former college professor. The professor Morrie Schwartz, however, teaches the wisdom of life that is conveyed through the pages of this book. Morrie teaches many different lessons on life and Tuesdays with Morrie is the product of what Mitch Albom has learned from him. Though Morrie's lessons are universal, …show more content…
Morrie and Mitch met on a total of fifteen Tuesdays to discuss a new topic each week. Morrie had a lifetime of wisdom to give and Mitch came to the realization that he had an innumerable amount of questions to ask about life. Morrie once told Mitch, "Once you learn how to die, you learn how to live (Albom 82)." Morrie ironically relished the knowledge that death brought to him. Though his life was at its end, the fact that Morrie could see the important things in life more clearly than ever because of it fulfilled him. He took the time he had with his precious wisdom to keep teaching as he had for his entire …show more content…
Morrie meant to teach Mitch how to love and feel. It was his belief that human love and affection are the most crucial things to life. The old professor told Mitch, "The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love; and to let it come in (Albom 52)." Morrie conveys his basic thesis, which is his belief that feelings of shortcoming, overcompensation, or interminable strive for material things in every person is merely a quest to fill a void where they are desperate for love. He is both wise and naive in this belief that everyone is basically exactly the same (like