Evan Schwartz

SAYING MARVELOUS THINGS TO A PERSON Many people believe that we don 't have to care what people think about us. But other people believe that is important to know what other people think about us. As a result of matter what people think about us they made an event called Living Funeral. A living Funeral is an event where the person who will die invite their relatives and friends to meet with them and hear what they feel or think about them. But other group of people believe that this event is a…

“Don’t assume that it’s too late to get involved” (Albom 7). This aphorism by Morrie Schwartz explains how you can change whenever you want and if you work hard enough you can change what you want. It is never too late to fix a problem or change your way of life. Tuesdays with Morrie, written by Mitch Albom and published in 1997, is a memoir filled with stories of Tuesdays with Mitch’s professor, Morrie Schwartz. Morrie wasn’t a typical college professor at Brandeis University. He was a…

Albom began sharing Morrie’s death and the process of dying by sharing one of the very first metaphor’s when he describes the pink hibiscus plant and how it stays beautiful as its leaves wither away. “The last class of my old professor’s life took place once a week, in his home, by a window in his study where he could watch a small hibiscus plant shed its pink flowers.” (Albom, Tuesdays with Morrie, 1997 pg. 56). As Albom visits Morrie on his weekly visits, you notice with the tone and several…

On the second Tuesday, Morrie begins with a lesson on “Feeling Sorry for Yourself.” Mitch enters the familiar study where class will soon start, Albom starts with an appeals to the mournful emotions of his audience when he describes his professors’ deteriorating physical appearance. Mitch advances into the study and sits amongst Morrie, Morrie launches his lecture with the importance of self pity. “I thought about all the people I knew who spent many of their waking hours feeling sorry for…

Morrie Schwartz was a college professor up until he was diagnosed with ALS also known as Lou Gehrig's disease. Morrie had a student Mitch Albom who every Tuesday the would hold one on one instruction. After Mitch graduated he promised that he would stay in touch. Mitch became a sports writer at the Detroit Free Press. With all the traveling Mitch did he did not keep in touch. One day Mitch saw Morrie on the tv talking about the disease. Mitch then started visiting Morrie. Morrie started giving…

The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.(Bertrand Russell) This quote shows on how life is founded on love and we are guided by knowledge on how we live our life. As the quote states Morrie lived his life, having a loving family and was a very knowledgeable life. In the book Tuesdays with Morrie, Morrie teaches various lessons about life in this essay I will talk about three Tuesdays. For the first Tuesday I would like to talk about is the 5th Tuesday Family, Morrie teaches…

Tuesday’s With Morrie is a memoir written by Mitch Albom that tells the story of a sportswriter who reunites with his old professor and friend, Morrie Schwartz. Albom seeks Schwartz out after witnessing a news report report on Schwartz’s ALS diagnosis, and he learns that his favorite professor has only a few months to live. After the two meet, they both agree to meet on Tuesdays, just as they had done during Albom’s college career, for one “final class”, for the remainder of Morrie’s life. The…

“Once you learn to die, you learn how to live.”(Albom 82) This important quote is from Morrie Schwartz in Mitch Albom’s book Tuesdays with Morrie. This is a quote that many people don't think about, but Morrie thinks this because when you are dying one want to do all the things one wanted to do in their life. In the book Tuesdays with Morrie, Mitch Albom reunites with his old college professor, Morrie, who is dying from the disease ALS. Morrie does not have much time left in his life, but he…

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…

Do you really know the difference between rich and poor? Some cannot even imagine that the rich man can spend a year income of a poor man, on one toy. Well these are difference in our society that the author Toni Cade Bambara, wants the reader and character in the short story called The Lesson to realize. “Her short stories best capture people struggling in a day-to-day existence, trying to survive in society, but doing it together. Capitalistic society is what Bambara’s characters are fighting…