Mitch Albom's Tuesdays With Morrie

The novel Tuesdays with Morrie has been written by the American writer, Mitch Albom. It was published in the year1997. This book was later recreated by Thomas Rickman into a TV movie of the same name directed by Mick Jackson, which aired on the fifth of December, 1999. Mitchell David “Mitch” Albom was born in the year 1958. He is an America author, journalist, screenwriter, dramatist, radio and television broadcaster, and musician. He’s best known for his inspirational stories and themes that weave through his books, plays, and film, after having achieved national recognition for sports writing in the earlier part of his career. The book is a small volume that chronicled Albom’s time spent with his professor. It talks about a beautiful relationship between a teacher and
a student and some of the life’s greatest lesson.

A Beautiful Teacher-Student Relationship
The novel talks about a beautiful relationship shared between a Teacher and a Student. The two characters with the significant relationship in this book are Mitch (the author) and Morrie Schwartz, his college professor who he once promised he’d keep in touch. As it turned out, Mitch who grew up to be a successful sports journalist never did reconnect with the man who, in college, taught him several life lessons about relationships and keys to a happy and successful life. Mitch was so caught up with his own busy life he couldn’t find time for his beloved professor.
Then one night, Mitch sees Morrie on a TV interview with Ted Koppel. He’s dying from ALS. This sparks Mitch’s desire to go see his old professor, which turns into a series of visits. They always meet on Tuesdays. The visits began and also a beautiful relation which was once got disconnected. They met for 13 Tuesdays and every time it was life’s greatest lesson. In college, Mitch and Morrie had met routinely on Tuesdays, mostly to discuss Mitch’s thesis. Mitch remembers how much Morrie loves food and brings an arsenal of treats to his first Tuesday visit. Morrie spoke about the world. They slip into conversation easily, as they did when Mitch was in college. Morrie tells Mitch that he feels empathy for all the people who suffer, even people he reads about in the news, such as the civilian victims of the war in Bosnia. He cries for those he has never met before; he admits he cries all the time. Morrie tells Mitch that the most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and how to let it come in. And when the time comes, and Mitch has to leave he will kiss Morrie before leaving as an unusual display of affection on his part. The second
Tuesday, they talk about feeling sorry for yourself, Morrie was a strong person who was fighting his disease like a hero and was never really upset about the fact that he’s eventually going to die, unlike today’s generation who are always waiting and thinking about it or thinking about killing themselves. He talks to Mitch about how lucky he is to have time to say goodbye to his loved ones before he dies. He consciously limits the amount of time he spends pitying himself, as he knows he must enjoy the little life he has left. As the days are passing and Morrie’s health instead of getting better is getting worse he realizes time is passing out and that he must do something about it. On the third Tuesday, Mitch has brought a tape recorder along with bags of food, at first Mitch thought that the tape recorder is intrusive and worries that it will make Morrie uncomfortable.