Meaning Of Life In Mitch Albom's Tuesdays With Morrie

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Tuesdays with Morrie is a story about an old college professor, Morrie Schwartz with his most preferable student, Mitch Albom, who is the author of the novel. There were no connections among the sixteen years between themselves after Mitch’s graduation from Brandeis although he has promised Morrie to keep in touch. Mitch was decided to meet Morrie after discovered the appearance of his professor on a television show ‘Nightline’. At that time, Morrie has already affected by Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) which is incurable disease and not much time left for Morrie. Mitch acknowledges this fact and determines to meet Morrie for the following Tuesdays until the last class of the old professor’s life. Mitch has attended fourteen lessons with Morrie about the Meaning of Life that experienced by the …show more content…
This true story capture a dying man who lived with ample and never gives up until his last breathe in his fulfilled life. Mitch recognized of Morrie’s disease and began the last class in Morrie’s life to expose the meaning of life. These are some discussion during the meeting which included Inthing that anyone can ever learn in life.
One of the lesson Morrie teaches Mitch is must create own subculture. Morrie learn it when he was close to his death. He said that building own culture not mean can disregard everything rule of community. Human should build own subculture for ‘how we think, what we value’ and cannot let any society to determine those for them.
Morrie also teaches Mitch not to fear of aging. There was nothing to fear to aging and everyone will go to die eventually. He say that was a part of our life and everything was comes in steps. We must face aging as it was not just decay, instead it is growth.
In conclude, Tuesday with Morrie is a meaningful book and it contents many meaning of life that anyone can ever learn in life.
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