Tuesdays With Morrie: An Old Term Paper

Mitch and Janine also talk to Morrie about marriage. Morrie calls it an important life experience all should have. In learning about another within marriage one continues to learn about oneself.

By the 11th Tuesday Morrie has become extremely helpless. In this session, Mitch is able to shed his self-consciousness about Morrie's increasingly infantile needs, in order to help Morrie breathe, which is now very, very difficult. They also hold hands and just stay close. Mitch learns that the cultural imperative that adults, especially males, not touch deprives men of physical affection all people need, regardless of age. Also, now that Morrie can no longer eat the food Mitch has brought him each Tuesday, Mitch realizes that all along he has also been giving his dying professor a more important gift than food, that of his attentive interest and companionship.The 12th Tuesday, Morrie mentions importance of forgiving, recalling regret at ending a friendship with a man, Norman, who failed to tell Morrie of has wife's serious illness. Now Norman is dead and Morrie regrets having been unable to save the friendship. But Morrie thinks it also important to forgive oneself: "It's not just other people we need to forgive... Make peace. You need to make peace with yourself and everyone around you." The 14th Tuesday, Mitch learns from Morrie that life is dynamic to the end. Morrie says, "There is no such thing as 'too late' in life." Mitch learns the dead live on in one's mind; Mitch can still talk to Morrie easily and imagine his replies.

Works Cited

Albom, Mitch. Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and….....