Tuesdays with Morie

Tuesdays with Morie

“One of Those Books that…Sneaked Up and Grabbed People’s Hearts…”
Tuesdays with Morrie, a novel by Mitch Albom, deserves the praise it gets and more. The novel of a student-teacher that never broke even after being dormant for 16 years will tug on your heart strings like no other. The story of Morrie, a college professor who was diagnosed with ALS, is finally reunited after 16 with an ex-student of his, Mitch. The two spend every Tuesday of Morrie’s final weeks on this earth where the two discuss what needs to be learned by everyone, love. The three aspects that truly gave the book its edge were the unforgettable characters, the phenomenal imagery, and the life-lesson theme.
The characters and how they developed over the course of the entire book was the first prospect of the book that caught my eye. We are first introduced to Mitch, the once aspiring pianist, who gave up his dreams early in life: “No more playing music at half-empty night clubs. No more writing songs that no one would hear. (15)” Mitch then became a sports journalist that forgot about his dreams and dove head first into his work. Mitch begins to forget his old college of money is evil, the rich ruin the world, and material possessions are useless, and now his life revolves around work. He would work before sunrise and continue to after sunset. He had little time for his social life, his wife, and gods forbid his college professor he promised to stay in touch with over the years after college. The college Mitch who smoked unlit cigs, and who wore a leather jacket, and who wore the Adidas without the laces was dead. When the Union goes on strike at his work, he finds himself out of his job and paycheck, for the first time since those empty clubs. His eventual meetings with Morrie make him come to realize that his life needed to change. The man he said he would never become in college is now he man living his life. As the Tuesdays with Morrie pass Mitch slowly starts to change his lifestyle. He...

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