Tuesdays With Morrie
Mitch Albom
1997
Doubleday Broadway Publishing Group; Random House Inc.
Precis of The Audiovisual
Morrie would write philosophies about life. An article titled "A Professor's Final Course: His Own Death" was published in The Boston Globe about Morrie's mini-philosophies. A producer on Nightline brought the article to Koppel, who immediately decided to do a special on Morrie. When Ted arrived at Morrie's house, Morrie asked him personal questions in private in order to understand what kind of person Ted was. Morrie believed that death should not be embarrassing and would not allow anyone to pamper him. On the show, Morrie explained that he sometimes felt sorry for himself and sometimes he's angry, but then he remembers that he just wants to live. When Albom saw the show, he was shocked.
Gems of The Audiovisual
"Accept the past as past, without denying it or discarding it"(18).
"Because Morrie sat in the wheelchair, the camera never caught his withered legs" (21).
"He showed great passion when explaining how you face the end of life" (21).
"When all this started, I asked myself, 'Am I going to withdraw myself from the world, like most people do, or am I going to live?' I decided I am going to live- or at least try to live- the way I want, with dignity, with courage, with humor, with composure"(21).
Response
I tried looking up the original article that was written about Morrie in the Boston Globe. Unfortunately, it's an article that requires an "archive fee". I would have liked to have gotten a more direct understanding of Morrie's values through Morrie's own words, but I think that Mitch does him justice. I enjoy the way that Mitch portrays Morrie; lively though dying. I think that this is one of the main points of this book; you live until you die, and whatever you do in between is up to you.
Morrie would write philosophies about life. An article titled "A Professor's Final Course: His Own Death" was published in The Boston Globe about Morrie's mini-philosophies. A producer on Nightline brought the article to Koppel, who immediately decided to do a special on Morrie. When Ted arrived at Morrie's house, Morrie asked him personal questions in private in order to understand what kind of person Ted was. Morrie believed that death should not be embarrassing and would not allow anyone to pamper him. On the show, Morrie explained that he sometimes felt sorry for himself and sometimes he's angry, but then he remembers that he just wants to live. When Albom saw the show, he was shocked.
Gems of The Audiovisual
"Accept the past as past, without denying it or discarding it"(18).
"Because Morrie sat in the wheelchair, the camera never caught his withered legs" (21).
"He showed great passion when explaining how you face the end of life" (21).
"When all this started, I asked myself, 'Am I going to withdraw myself from the world, like most people do, or am I going to live?' I decided I am going to live- or at least try to live- the way I want, with dignity, with courage, with humor, with composure"(21).
Response
I tried looking up the original article that was written about Morrie in the Boston Globe. Unfortunately, it's an article that requires an "archive fee". I would have liked to have gotten a more direct understanding of Morrie's values through Morrie's own words, but I think that Mitch does him justice. I enjoy the way that Mitch portrays Morrie; lively though dying. I think that this is one of the main points of this book; you live until you die, and whatever you do in between is up to you.
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