Morrie Professionalism

Who is Morrie? Morrie in his heart, and by every conceivable measure is a teacher. Morrie teaches at Brandeis University, by every metric he is an outstanding professor, he retires once he starts to feel the early symptoms of Lou Gehrig’s disease. Lou Gehrig’s disease is the true villain of the book, the disease makes Morrie a prisoner of his own flesh; while at the same time leaving his mind alone. Mitch has to lay in the horror of being completely paralyzed, as his time is winding down. Rather than surrender to these realities, he fights in the only way he has ever known…he teaches. Morrie wants desperately to share his understandings of life, death and all that lies in-between to the world before he dies. Thus, enters Mitch, who acts much …show more content…
Morrie’s abilities are made clear when he so skillfully deconstructs Koppel a tough minded national celebrity. Morrie is able to do this through his most compelling message which is love, just as he deconstructs Koppel he breaks down Mitch even easier. Mitch has surrounded himself with a shield comprised of greed tempered by a consummate professionalism. Mitch has allowed popular culture to swallow his sense of himself, he encourages Mitch to reignite the passion, and indeed humanity he had as a young guy. Morrie operates almost in a Christ like fashion as he educates through the medium of stories, he teaches Mitch to throw out the corruption popular culture and replace it with a type of moral …show more content…
Tuesday’s with Morrie is driven by the characters, their thoughts, experiences, feelings, as well as their perceptions are what drives this story forward. The book is a critique of our (the audience) daily lives and how it is so easy to become focused on the external factors that drive us through life, money, materialism, popular culture, and how each of these can subsume our identities. How much time do we spend on social media? How much time do we spend staring at our phones? The book absolutely demands in no uncertain terms that you examine these realities by asking the hard question of; what do you love? Morrie forces Mitch to confront these in a variety of ways and Mitch does make that transition away from the monetary to the meaningful metric for evaluating one’s life. The greatest lesson of the book is that life is about more than what you have and is better spent considering what you