Tuesdays With Morrie: Mitch Albom

For this summer's homework, I was required to read two books and one of them was Tuesdays With Morrie by Mitch Albom. I had actually read another one of his books, For One More Day, before I had been given this assignment and had immensely enjoyed reading it so I had extremely high expectations for this book. Luckily, it met and even surpassed my expectations.


Tuesdays With Morrie talks about Morrie Schwartz, Mitch Albom's college professor from about twenty years ago. For Mitch, Morrie was the wise and patient grandparent we all had. The one who would understand how it was to be young and guided us along the way with their sound advice. They were the ones who understood that they were wise not because they were older than us, but because they have had more time to make more mistakes, the very mistakes they don't want us to make too. Mitch had graduated from college with the promise of keeping in touch with Morrie, but he hadn't as he soon became too busy with his life. He believed that people needed him in this world only to find out that in truth if he were to disappear nobody would really care because that is just how our world is now. He had been living in a cold world, but then he received a second chance to return to the life he once had, the life where he was surrounded by people who truly cared about him. His second chance came to him by him getting in touch with his old professor again and reviving their long lost relationship. Mitch only remembered about Morrie because of a T.V. interview featuring Morrie and Ted Koppel that revealed to the readers about Morrie's imminent death because of his terminal illness. During the interview, Morrie doesn't wear any makeup or fancy clothes and he talks about how he wants to live his life to the fullest and to die with dignity.
After Mitch met Morrie again for the first time in forever, they decide to meet on Tuesdays, just like they used to when they were in college. The Tuesday meetings soon turn into Morrie's final class, lessons on how to live a fulfilling life. Morrie Schwartz is the professor of the class and Mitch Albom is his only student and their class graduation will be Morrie's death. Morrie's class takes Mitch from his previously unsympathetic world to one where he is surrounded by those he holds dear to him. Regrettably, Morrie dies in the end. He dies just when there is no other person in his room and it seems as if he had planned it that way because as a child he had been haunted by the deaths of his parents and he did not want anyone to be haunted by his death.
Mitch became inspired to contact his sick brother in Spain after understanding Morrie's main point of how "there is no such things as 'too late' in life" (192). At the beginning of their classes, Morrie said to Mitch that he'll make Mitch cry someday and that there is nothing wrong with crying. On their last day together, Mitch finally cries and he says that he believes Morrie was satisfied with having made him cry at last.
Mitch Albom wrote Tuesdays With Morrie because he wanted to help pay some of Morrie Schwartz's medical bills. Now, there are more than 50 different editions around the world and more than 15 million copies of this marvelous book.
I highly advise you all to read this book as I highly enjoyed reading it. On a side note, did anyone catch that random bit I took from a Frozen song? Anyways, enough babbling from me, please share your thoughts on this book below in the comments and also what you think of my first post on a book.

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