Tuesdays With Morrie

In his 1897 prose poem, Les Nourritures terrestres, André Gide writes A not sufficiently constant thought of death has given an insufficient value to the tiniest moments of your life. Don’t you...

Many of these have already been listed in the previous answer, but I am going to include a more extensive list, in order, with page numbers from the 1997 version of the text. An aphorism is a...

Mitch changes as he absorbs Morrie's lessons; he becomes more thoughtful, appreciative, and kind. One of the biggest changes in Mitch is how he sees success and the value of the time he has. Mitch...

Columnist Mitch Albom authored one of the more moving and inspirational nonfiction books in recent memory. Tuesdays with Morrie is Albom’s memoir of college, of his post-college struggles to find...

Morrie's father Charlie died after he was accosted by two robbers while taking a solitary walk. The robbers pulled a gun and demanded his money; terrified, Charlie threw down his wallet and began...

My favorite metaphor in Tuesdays with Morrie is the story above the wave. It's a metaphor that uses part-to-whole. Waves are the part; the ocean is the whole. The story is analogous to humans...

Morrie is adamant about spending the last days of his life on his own terms. So, despite his illness, he refuses to let self-pity overwhelm him. His perspective on self-pity is that it is a...

The relationship between Mitch and Morrie in this gem of a book is deep and multi-layered, as all true relationships are. On the one hand, it is a relationship between a valued teacher and a...

Morrie has several rules for love and marriage in this novel. He shares them with Mitch, and shares that he believes they are the key to a successful marriage and happy life. According to Morrie,...

I believe that the big questions in life you are asking about are, "Have you found someone to share your heart with? Are you giving to your community? Are you at peace with yourself? Are you...

A key moment refers to a specific time in Morrie's childhood that had an affect on him and influenced his behavior as an adult. In addition to the aforementioned moments already stated, I would...

Morrie says that "As you grow, you learn more. If you stayed at twenty-two, you'd always be as ignorant as you were at twenty-two. Aging is not just decay...it's growth. It's more than the...

Mitch Albom's 2009 nonfiction book Tuesdays with Morrie relates the author's weekly sessions at the bedside of his former academic mentor, Morrie Schwartz, a college professor dying from...

Morrie says that you should commit your efforts for the good of others, to offer others "what you have to give." He believes that this is the key to achieving a meaningful life. Morrie and Mitch...

When Morrie talks about building a person's own subculture, he means that each individual should decide what matters to them in life. It's important to obey the laws of society—he doesn't, he says,...

Mitch relates in Chapter 3 that his favorite uncle died at a young age of pancreatic cancer. Mitch lived downstairs from him and watched his uncle die. Before this point, Mitch was invested in...

In Tuesdays With Morrie, Morrie's father is a father in name only. There is a division of labor in the house, and Morrie's parents marriage is segregated. Morrie's mother takes care of the kids,...

According to Morrie, we should be teaching people how to understand the true meaning of life. He maintains that most people are unhappy because they let the prevailing culture dictate their...

In Tuesdays with Morrie, Mitch and his younger brother, Peter, are not as different as they might seem. Sure, the explicit biographical detail sets them immediately apart—Mitch is the tee-totaling,...

Though both men benefitted from their meetings, it seems likely that Mitch got more from them than Morrie because Morrie was imparting wisdom while Mitch was receiving it. Morrie, of course, got a...

When Mitch arrives at Morrie's for the first time, he's not proud of the fact that he never kept his promise to keep in touch with his favorite professor. So, he sits in the car and feels guilty;...

The answer to this question can be found in Chapter 12: The Professor. In Chapter 11, we learn that Morrie's mother had passed away seventy years ago, and the pain of losing her is still fresh in...

On the Twelfth Tuesday, Mitch talks with Morrie about forgiveness as Morrie explains that he once held a grudge against a friend named Norman; he regrets not having forgiven his friend for not...

In the book, Morrie tells Mitch that he will die through suffocation. To see how long he has left, Morrie uses a little test. The test involves inhaling air and then counting as many numbers as he...

The character of Morrie Schwartz is that of a man whose impending death has rendered him, like he says in his own words, able to "learn how to live". As a way to cope with his own grief, Morrie...

Mitch experiences the ultimate lesson on this book - he learns about himself. What he learns form Maury is that success and happiness are not always measured in dollar signs or in popularity polls....

Another reason Morrie decided to become a sociology professor was because he wanted a respectable profession, preferably one that didn't exploit others. When Morrie was a teenager, his father...

Morrie's passion for books and educaion was inspired by his stepmother Eva. Morrie's real mother died when he was only eight years old. His father, a Russian immigrant who could not read English,...

Tuesdays with Morrie by sports columnist Mitch Albom is a poignant memoir of Albom's reunion with his former sociology professor after sixteen years; when he was in college, Mitch would have...

Mitch Albom’s memoir of his relationship with a very special professor, Morrie Schwartz, emphasizes the lessons the latter conveyed to the one-time student. Mitch met Morrie when he was a student,...

Morrie just accepts the news of his impending death as the next fairly ordinary thing in life. He tells Mitch, "You know, Mitch, now that I'm dying, I've become much more interesting to people." He...

Whereas the bedroom is an epicenter of activity (many guests) in "The Professor Part I" of Tuesday with Morrie, the bedroom is indeed a sickroom, more connected with suffering and death in Part...

Morrie Schwartz, a professor of sociology at Brandeis University, achieved posthumous fame after a distinguished academic career as the subject of his former student Mitch Albom's memoir, Tuesdays...

In the book Tuesdays with Morrie, Mitch Albom tells of the time he spent with his dying former sociology professor, Morrie. While studying at Brandeis University, Albom took numerous sociology...

I think that in most readers' opinion, both men benefit equally from the meetings. Morrie needed companionship, but Mitch provided so much more than that for him--he ensured Morrie's legacy, one...

You will want songs that match up with the way the book is organized. And, remember, you will want songs that Morrie used to dance to in the 1970s when he attending those Friday Nights at...

Morrie describes his near-death experience as "a terrible spell. It went on for hours. And I really wasn't sure I was going to make it. No breath. No end to the choking." At the point where he...

Morrie’s reaction to finding out he is dying is admirable. He decides to make the most of the time he has left and to use it to benefit others. The chapter titled “The Syllabus” explains Morrie’s...

Morrie wouldn't say that everyone should have children. In his conversation with Mitch, he makes it clear that no one has the right to tell someone else that they should or should not have them....

When Morrie and Mitch discuss culture, Morrie asserts that human beings should be responsible for creating their own culture based on their personal values. Morrie maintains that no one should...

Mitch Albom uses a variety of narrative techniques in his 1997 bestselling memoir, Tuesdays with Morrie. There are portions of Tuesdays With Morrie that are related from a third-person perspective,...

Since Morrie has ALS, also known as Lou Gehrig’s Disease, he has to deal with debilitating physical symptoms that progressively get worse. Earlier in the book, he is able to walk on his own. As...

The son of Russian-Jewish immigrants, whose father was a fur merchant, Morrie vowed to never to work anywhere in which workers were exploited. So, he became a teacher, specifically a sociology...

In Tuesdays with Morrie, Morrie Schwarts is a born teacher. Teachers, as you know, need an audience. Even an audience of one. Morrie knows that he can impact Mitch's wayward, materialistic...

Since Morrie's aphorisms run throughout the novel's narrative, obtaining all of them is a task beyond the scope here. For, gleaning all the aphorisms would probably require the reader to record...

The point of view between Morrie and Mitch is one of teacher and student. This frame of reference is critical in the influence it casts upon the reader. One of the fundamental lessons out of the...

In Tuesdays With Morrie, Morrie Schwartz is a dying sociology professor who becomes close friends with sports columnist Mitch Albom. As Morrie dies, his Tuesdays with Mitch are often interrupted by...

My first impression of Mitch was that he was an opportunist, only interested in a story, but not really interested in Morrie. As the story unfolds, he softens, and begins to see Morrie as a real...

First, I encourage you to re-read the Eleventh Tuesday, as this is the chapter which directly deals with creating your own subculture. On the whole, however, this entire book is about a man who...

One could say that Morrie Schwartz almost fell into becoming a sociology professor; it's not really something he ever planned. When Morrie was a young man during the Great Depression there weren't...