The class met on Tuesdays...The subject was the meaning of Life... No books were required, yet many topics were covered, including love, work, community, family, aging, forgiveness, and, finally, death." Tuesdays With Morrie, by Mitch Albom, is a book about the strong relationship between a student and his dying mentor. Their bond is one that grows through the course of the novel and, in the end, reveals an aspect to life that makes one appreciate the fact that they are living.

"My old professor, meanwhile, was stunned by the normalcy of the day around him shouldn't the world stop? Don 't they know what has happened to me?" Albom has just described the reaction Morrie has to the rest of the world as he learns the news that he has acquired the Lou Gehrig's disease, which affects the neurological system. The reader gets the feeling that Morrie detaches himself from the world in order to cope with the reality that he is eventually going to die but, out of serious thought, a decision was made. "He would not whither. He would not be ashamed of dying." Morrie decides to teach people a lesson abou

"You're afraid of the vulnerability that loving entails... How we feel lonely, sometimes to the point of tears, but we don't let those tears come because we are not supposed to cry. Or how we feel a surge of love for a partner but we don't say anything because we're frozen with the fear of what those words might do to the relationship." It is quotes like these that makes this book so great. It is moving and original story because what is being said is the simple truth. The words of this dying man are so beautiful that it is inconceivable to the reader that he can think of all these philosophies about life, that anyone person can understand, no matter what their age. Nearing the end of the book, the reader realizes that with the death of Morrie the world is losing a vital soul in which we should all imitate because if all the world would only follow his example, it would be a better place for everyone.

t dying and about the things he learns with the clarity that he reaches. In order for his lessons to reach the world though, he institutes the help of a former student, named Mitch, whom Morrie was very close to in college. Mitch finds out about Morrie from watching the television interview between him and Ted Koppel. When he goes to visit his former teacher he was " surprised at such affection after all these years, but then he had forgotten how close they once were." With that "although he was unaware of it, their last class had just begun. "

The theme of this novel is the meaning of life and it is brought about in a gradual manner. Albom makes sure to combine the present with flashbacks of the past, so that the reader can understand how deep the relationship between Mitch and Morrie goes. With every chapter we are shown the growing friendship between the two, from the time Mitch enters college until his graduation day. In other aspects, we learn about the life of Morrie and how he comes to the decision that he wants to become a teacher. One thing that is a common bond in all of the lessons is that Morrie makes sure to include the importance of love in all of them. In their second Tuesday Mitch and Morrie talk about feeling sorry for yourself. "Sometimes, in the mornings, that's when I mourn. I feel around my body, I move my fingers and my hands- whatever I can still move, and I mourn at what I've los

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Approximate Word count = 1576
Approximate Pages = 6 (250 words per page double spaced)