In the book Tuesdays with Morrie written by Mitch Albom, the reader is taken through life lessons taught by an old college professor Morrie Schwartz. Mitch wrote this book based on lessons he was taught by Morrie during the final months of his life. Morrie suffered from ALS, a non-treatable disease at the time. He has many life lessons to teach to the young Mitch who was clearly having a hard time setting his priorities in life. Throughout the book we can see the changes that occur with Mitch’s character. There are three main areas where we can see clearly how Mitch is being to evolve into a better man: beginning, mid-book, and end.
In the beginning of Tuesdays with Morrie, Mitch gives us a little overview of his life. He works at Detroit Free Press in the sports section. He has a busy life and not much room for more. He meets a lovely lady named Janine and they get married after seven years of dating. Mitch in the beginning of the book described his life standing as, “I buried myself in accomplishments, because with accomplishments, I believed I could control things, I could squeeze in every last piece of happiness before I got sick and died…” (Albom 17). He had none of his life goals going for him because of his job that sucked the life out him twenty four seven. Mitch always had a deadline and never had time for his wife, which strained their marriage. He soon learns about his old professors conditions and flies out to see him after sixteen years. Embarrassed and worried Morrie would be upset with him, he finds himself at his driveway and Morrie awaiting his greeting in his wheelchair with open, excited arms. Over the next few weeks he continues to see Morrie on tuesdays and discuss the many questions Mitch has about life as well as what Morrie wants to teach him. They begin this tradition and soon Mitch begins to see the bigger picture to life and realize what his life is really doing to him.
Halfway through Tuesdays with Morrie we can see how Mitch...