Tuesdays with Morrie
The novel Tuesdays With Morrie was written by Mitch Aldom, and published in New York city New York in 1997. The book contains one-hundred and ninety two pages. The front cover is simple, as is the novel. A lot of people may make the mistake of judging this book by its cover at first and not pick it up simply because there are no pictures, just letters. However, the quote "an old man, a young man, and life's greatest lesson" immediately pulls you into the story, and makes you want to open it up and read on. Morrie Schwartz was a doctor of sociology, a college professor and wrote several books. He was a husband, and a father, he was also an active dancer. In 1994 he was diagnosed with ALS, Lou Gehrig's disease. It is a slow debilitating disease that leaves you helplessly trapped inside of a body that has fallen apart, but a soul that continues to live. Mitch Aldom graduated from Brandies and began to pursue his life as a m
He settled down and buried himself in his work and eventually forgot about his favorite college professor Morris Schwartz. Over the next few months Mitch and Morrie meet on a weekly basis. After years of playing half empty night clubs he decided to return to school and earned a masters degree in journalism. It not only inspired me to want to be a teacher, it was practically a lesson in an ESEC class. I think that the author was trying to show people of all ages that you are never done learning. 126) I think that this directly applies to the teaching profession, you are constantly giving to others. Years passed and as he was watching television one night he saw an episode of "Nightline" that featured an interview with Morrie. Mitch drove to Morrie's house and met with him for a short time, they reminisced and Morrie spoke his words of wisdom about life and happiness. One of Morrie's lessons's dealt with what gives us satisfaction. Offering others what you have to give. He took the first job that was offered to him as a sports writer. Life's lessons are not taught in the classroom, they are leaned through real life. Overall it was very complete and I thoroughly enjoyed it.
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