Analysis Of Tuesdays With Morrie By Mitch Albom

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Money is not the reason towards happiness. Living your life to the fullest, but in a more simple and understood way; that’s how Morrie Schwartz lived his life. Mitch Albom, the author of Tuesdays with Morrie, a biographical fiction, he writes about his old college professor, Morrie Schwartz, who he hasn’t seen since 16 years after he graduated from Brandeis University. Later on Mitch spots his professor on T.V. being interviewed for a terminal disease called A.L.S. How did Morrie learn this throughout life, what caused him to think about it? In the story Tuesdays with Morrie, Mitch Albom expresses, each day there is a small amount of life being given, even if they are small live up to them as much as needed; the author uses dialogue, imagery, …show more content…
Going through tough times can be the worst, but when you try to work it out there is always hope; we need this communication in our lives to help us learn what there is and what isn’t there. For instance, when loving family you try to do anything for them to bring a smile on there face because it means the world, so that means going through so much in life and trying your best to succeed even if it’s very difficult. Also Albom writes, “‘ You strip away all that stuff and you focus on the essentials. When you realize you are going to die, you see everything much differently’” (Albom 24). Priority is what is used mostly in any of us, we try to take unnecessary opportunities out of our lives to spend every last minute of it with our loved ones; it changes the way we see things in a fascinated but shocked way. People have different views in life, they see things in divergent ways because we aren’t all born the same. Not all of us have similar ways and looks we are different with sight, smell, hearing, taste and touch such as in 2015, back then there was a negotiation about a dress with colors that people couldn’t figure out if it was blue and black or white and gold (Rogers). After all, it was the way of how the human eyes and brain works when its in a world with sunlight. Besides we have different reasons for what happens in our lives we seem to care more than usual …show more content…
It isn’t about getting the best type of shoes or purse, it’s about being happy and peaceful. Many people have money, but they are not always happy if all they think about is fitting into society's pleadings. Family is brought into our lives to help us and support us through tough times. Morries lessons weren’t aimed at a broad spectrum of people. The ending of life is a new reflection to learn, teach, amd experience. Don’t always take up life as a game if winning makes us move on and losing means giving up, then our lives are pointless; life doesn’t really work out that way, when we lose we should get back up and learn from the mistakes and move on to better choices in life. We get to learn through our experiences in life and teach it to others what are struggling because all of us are having bad times in our lives and stepping in to help makes a big difference. No matter how weak we are in our lives we will always be strong in some way, but we shouldn’t care about what others think about

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