Tuesdays With Morrie: Themes In Tuesdays With Morrie, by Mitch Albom, Morrie uses several aphorisms to teach Mitch about life. In the memoir, life lessons taught by Morrie are learned on Tuesdays, leading up to his death. Morrie, a professor of sociology, suffers from ALS, in which he learns the true values of life. He learns the importance of love, family, and where a person’s values are placed. Morrie talks about a different topic on each of the Tuesdays over a span of fourteen weeks. He teaches Mitch about the world, feeling sorry for oneself, regrets, death, family, emotions, fear of aging, money, how love goes on, marriage, culture, forgiveness, and the perfect day. All the topics that Morrie teaches to Mitch are similar in the way that they relate to themes of the memoir. The entire memoir is about how Morrie teaches
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Morrie speaks with Mitch about regrets, feeling sorry for oneself, and money. Regarding regrets he says to Mitch, “We don’t get into the habit of standing back and looking at our lives and saying, is this all? Is this all I want? Is something missing?” (65). In the aspect of money, he states, “We put our values in the wrong things. And it leads to very disillusioned lives” (123). Then lastly, he tells him, “Mitch I don’t allow myself more self-pity than that. A little each morning, a few tears, and that’s all” (57). This relates to a person’s life because it helps people to understand what they should be doing in order to have importance in their lives. Tuesdays With Morrie is a wonderful memoir that everyone should read at some point in their lives. It explains the importance of how a person lives his or her life, and how living life right helps a person die a little easier. Morrie was the prime example for all the aspects of life that he discussed with Mitch. A person would handle death a lot easier if he or she followed Morrie’s
Morrie speaks with Mitch about regrets, feeling sorry for oneself, and money. Regarding regrets he says to Mitch, “We don’t get into the habit of standing back and looking at our lives and saying, is this all? Is this all I want? Is something missing?” (65). In the aspect of money, he states, “We put our values in the wrong things. And it leads to very disillusioned lives” (123). Then lastly, he tells him, “Mitch I don’t allow myself more self-pity than that. A little each morning, a few tears, and that’s all” (57). This relates to a person’s life because it helps people to understand what they should be doing in order to have importance in their lives. Tuesdays With Morrie is a wonderful memoir that everyone should read at some point in their lives. It explains the importance of how a person lives his or her life, and how living life right helps a person die a little easier. Morrie was the prime example for all the aspects of life that he discussed with Mitch. A person would handle death a lot easier if he or she followed Morrie’s