Tuesdays With Morrie :: Tuesdays With Morrie Essays

Tuesdays With Morrie   Tuesdays With Morrie is a true novel based upon an older dying mans issuelook on life.  Throughout the story, the older man teaches his past student about life as his body is deadeningly shrivel uping extraneous from the Lou Gehrigs Disease.   CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT  Morrie Schwartz (the older man) teaches his student, Mitch Albom, what really matters in life.  The only counseling that I can begin to describe Morries character, is to quote an excerpt from pg. 10 regarding his reaction after being diagnosed       But my old professor had a profound decision, one he began to construct the day he came out of the doctors office with a sword hanging over his head.  Do I wither up and disappear, or do I settle the topper of my cadence left? He asked himself.  He would not wither.  He would not be ashamed of dying. Instead he would make death his utmost project, the center point of his days. Since e veryone was going to die, he could be of great value, proficient?  He could be research.  A human textbook.  Study me in my slow and patient demise. Watch what happens to me.  Learn with me.  Morrie would walk that final bridge between life and death, and narrate the trip.       Based on his decision not to wither up and die, and instead use his dying, as an opportunity to teach others what rattling matters in life, shows how unselfish and positive he really was.  Morrie didnt see his time spent ill as a waste, instead, he said, and I quote, I mourn my dwindling time, but I cherish the chance it gives me to make things right. (Pg. 167)  As a way to further carry out Morries appetite to be useful, both Morrie and Mitch decided to meet every Tuesday to study and debate lifes greatest lessons. Not only do we see evidence of Morries character, we in addition see a change in Mitch and his values.  With Morrie as a guide, Mi tch begins to ascertain that money, and materialistic wealth, have less significance than things such as relationships, forgiveness, and love.       tomography  An excerpt from the book, which related to imagery, was what Morrie referred to as detachment.