Nightline Discussion Questions
TUESDAYS WITH MORRIE SUMMARY, REFLECTION AND DISCUSSION QUESTIONS
Ruben Colon
Baker College
TUESDAYS WITH MORRIE SUMMARY
The “Nightline” show arranged a second interview with Morrie Schwartz. During this dialogue, Ted Koppel asked Morrie about his fear of dying and Morrie expresses his fear of losing his ability to move his hands and talk. He described how he didn’t really care about not being able to eat. He pointed out how he has a friend who is losing his capability of hearing. Morrie goes into how he receives letters from people who have been interested in his condition. Morrie starts to speak about one particular letter. It was from a lady who lost a parent when she was an adolescent and how she attended a group, which provided therapy for people who went through the same situation. Morrie then breaks down crying during the interview and conveys how when his mother died when he was a child, he wishes he would have had a group assisted people like they did for her. The reason why he said that is …show more content…
He feared that cancer would kill him like it did his uncle. Mitch then goes onto explains how surprised he was when his younger brother actually caught cancer. In Morrie’s eyes, his younger brother was more of a laid back person, his brother studied abroad in Europe and didn’t take it as serious as Mitch did. You could feel some sort of irony in the author’s recollection of that situation. You can see that Mitch regretted how bad he treated his brother as kids. Despite the lack of communication with his brother, Mitch and his family always tried to keep in constant contact with him. They never really received any response from him for months at a time. When Mitch would try to call his brother all he would receive would be an answering machine response that would drive Mitch deeper into his work. I feel it just made Mitch more of a
Ruben Colon
Baker College
TUESDAYS WITH MORRIE SUMMARY
The “Nightline” show arranged a second interview with Morrie Schwartz. During this dialogue, Ted Koppel asked Morrie about his fear of dying and Morrie expresses his fear of losing his ability to move his hands and talk. He described how he didn’t really care about not being able to eat. He pointed out how he has a friend who is losing his capability of hearing. Morrie goes into how he receives letters from people who have been interested in his condition. Morrie starts to speak about one particular letter. It was from a lady who lost a parent when she was an adolescent and how she attended a group, which provided therapy for people who went through the same situation. Morrie then breaks down crying during the interview and conveys how when his mother died when he was a child, he wishes he would have had a group assisted people like they did for her. The reason why he said that is …show more content…
He feared that cancer would kill him like it did his uncle. Mitch then goes onto explains how surprised he was when his younger brother actually caught cancer. In Morrie’s eyes, his younger brother was more of a laid back person, his brother studied abroad in Europe and didn’t take it as serious as Mitch did. You could feel some sort of irony in the author’s recollection of that situation. You can see that Mitch regretted how bad he treated his brother as kids. Despite the lack of communication with his brother, Mitch and his family always tried to keep in constant contact with him. They never really received any response from him for months at a time. When Mitch would try to call his brother all he would receive would be an answering machine response that would drive Mitch deeper into his work. I feel it just made Mitch more of a