Memoir: Tuesday With Morrie

Annie 2091

Ms. Lisa Diviney

5 Prompts of Memoir

6 August 2014 Tuesday with Morrie
The book “Tuesday with Morrie” is structured at first, like a school’s hand book, then it changes to a diary. Unlike the fiction work, chapters are not labeled one, two, three, and four. Instead, the first chapter was called “The Syllabus” which is an introduction to Morrie, the author’s college professor, a significance figure in this book. The second chapter was called “The Student”, the chapter title refers to the author, who is the student of Morrie’s. It continues as “The Orientation” “The Classroom” “Taking Attendance”, these chapters tells us about the life of the author after the last time he’d seen Morrie (after the author graduated).
Since the first day they had met accidentally and through out every Tuesday Albom had met with Morrie, he will always emphasize Morrie’s ASL condition. The day Albom accidentally met his teacher; he was embarrassed to see him and actually bending down to hide. The first Tuesday, Albom describes to us how bad Morrie’s condition was, and it got worst after many Tuesdays. Not only Morrie’s condition was mentioned, but Albom’s feelings toward it were also there. On the Eleventh Tuesday, we could see how Morrie had affect Albom deeply: “Morrie’s physical therapist had come earlier in the day, and I usually excused myself when nurses or specialists had business with him. But as the weeks passed and our time ran down, I was increasingly less self-conscious about the physical embarrassment. I wanted to be there. I wanted to observe everything. This was not like me, but then, neither were a lot of things that had happened these last few months in Morrie’s house” (153, Albom). He was telling us that he had developed through out the book. The change of Albom’s thoughts toward Morrie’s condition is a clear character development. This scene shows us a new kind guy, not embarrassed by anything, which differs from the guy we first met in the start of the book. Morrie had changed him and his view on many things. Albom was actually comparing his present self to his
Making lots of money, work hard on his journalism job; try to get wealthier and wealthier. Morrie, however, had changed his point of view entirely. Morrie had told Albom the key happiness is not buying new things to satisfy you, or owning more things so you could be above other people. We put our values in the wrong things and it leads us to having a delusional lives. You don’t have to listen to the society in order to be happy. Morrie reminds Albom that you will always be in control of your own happiness, don’t let the media delude you, don’t let people around you deceive you with their rich social status. Social status or money earns you nowhere because in the end, we all die. Those two things cannot be a substitute for care and tender. Don’t forget the bona fide happiness and don’t take things as