Who Is Mitch Albom's Tuesdays With Morrie?
In Mitch Albom’s novel Tuesdays With Morrie, is that in order to fully appreciate and experience the past, it is important for a person to focus on what is happening in the present. The meaning of life is to live one step at a time to the fullest. Mitch who was a college student Morrie taught, saw Morrie on T.V. and heard that he was going to die. Mitch didn’t really think of Morrie when he got out of college, but he also never really could have the time to think or visit Morrie because of how much he worked. When you get older you get wiser they say, but if you don't make mistakes in life and learn from those mistakes; you can’t become wiser. Morrie was a wise old man who had ALS, he had a lot to say about life, but could never truly express
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Morrie sometimes knew what Mitch was thinking about or how he feeled just by the way he acted and how he talked. As Morrie become sicker Mitch started to help out more so that he could connect with him better. As Mitch worked all he could think about, was what are they going to talk about the next visit on tuesday. “If you really listen to that bird on your shoulder, if you accept that you can die at any time then you might not be as ambitious as you are” (Albom 25). What Morrie means when he says this is that once you find out how to die, you figured out how to live life to the fullest; by noticing the the littlest things in everything that you have never noticed about before. Morrie didn’t seem like a emotional person on the outside, but on the inside he cared very much about some things. Even though Morrie was very wise he didn’t always give the best advice; which makes him even wiser in some sort of way.
“I had become too wrapped up in a siren song of my own life” (Albom 11). As Mitch started to talk to Morrie more, he noticed that he can’t rush things to just be done, take your time because even the littlest mistake can upset you in some way. As the ALS grow larger and stronger in Morrie, it made things hard for Mitch because he was waiting someone he loved and cared about die in front of him. But that didn’t stop Morrie from being interviewed by Mitch. The
Morrie sometimes knew what Mitch was thinking about or how he feeled just by the way he acted and how he talked. As Morrie become sicker Mitch started to help out more so that he could connect with him better. As Mitch worked all he could think about, was what are they going to talk about the next visit on tuesday. “If you really listen to that bird on your shoulder, if you accept that you can die at any time then you might not be as ambitious as you are” (Albom 25). What Morrie means when he says this is that once you find out how to die, you figured out how to live life to the fullest; by noticing the the littlest things in everything that you have never noticed about before. Morrie didn’t seem like a emotional person on the outside, but on the inside he cared very much about some things. Even though Morrie was very wise he didn’t always give the best advice; which makes him even wiser in some sort of way.
“I had become too wrapped up in a siren song of my own life” (Albom 11). As Mitch started to talk to Morrie more, he noticed that he can’t rush things to just be done, take your time because even the littlest mistake can upset you in some way. As the ALS grow larger and stronger in Morrie, it made things hard for Mitch because he was waiting someone he loved and cared about die in front of him. But that didn’t stop Morrie from being interviewed by Mitch. The