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The title = Tuesdays with Morrie:
an old man, a young man, and
life’s greatest lesson
By
Mitch Albom
Courtesy:
Shahid Riaz
Islamabad – Pakistan
Summary
The Orientation (Chapter 5)
On the street in the Morrie yard, mitch in his rental car was calling the TV producer and looking at Morrie in the yard sitting in a wheelchair while waving to mitch. Mitch hurried to finish his conversation on the phone and welcomed him. This is their first reunion in sixteen. Mitch was surprised at the warm affection with Morrie greeting him, and hugged him, feeling that there was no trace left of the good student Morrie remembering him as a teacher. Inside, Connie, Morrie's assistant, serves male food and manages Morrie medicine. After he took the pill, Morrie asked Mitch if he would tell him how it felt to die. This conversation, then without Mitch's knowledge, marked the beginning of their first lesson.
Mitch returned to his first year of college. He was younger than most students and tried to look older by wearing a dark gray sweater and hanging cigarettes that didn't light up from his lips, even though he didn't smoke. He built a facade of toughness, even though it was Morrie's "gentleness" which he considered very inviting. Mitch nicknamed Morrie "Coach," and Morrie told him that he could be his player, because Mitch could play parts that were now too old for Morrie. They ate together in the cafeteria, and Mitch noted that Morrie was dirty when he chewed; during their friendship, he had harbored two big wishes for Morrie: to hug him and give him a napkin.
The Classroom (Chapter 6)
Morrie's appearance on "Nightline" has made her a celebrity, and many people have asked to come to visit. This made Mitch remember friends who were missing his college friends. Basically, he had planned the dreams he had in his youth for wealth and success. However, his own financial success did not satisfy him. Morrie struggled for his life to survive. Morrie expressed the gratitude he felt for having love around him when he died, which he said was better to live bahagi than to live unhappy. Mitch was shocked by the lack of self-pity, namely the gratitude he felt for his slow and painful death. He was forever haunted by Morrie's explanation that he would suffocate, because ALS would eventually attack his lungs. Mitch avoided an honest answer, and Morrie urged him to accept death, because it was clear that he had no more than five months left to live. To prove the imminent death, Morrie showed Mitch a test that the doctor asked him to take. He first asked Mitch to take a breath, then exhaled while counting to the highest amount he could. Mitch counted seventy. Morrie could only reach eighteen before he had to breathe air. When he first saw a doctor, Morrie could count to twenty-three. At the end of the visit, Morrie asked Mitch to promise to come and see him again, as he had done for Mitch's graduation sixteen years earlier. Mitch promised to do it, and tried not to think about the last time he made and violated this same promise.
Take attendance (Chapter 7)
A few weeks after his reunion with Morrie, Mitch flew to London to cover the Wimbledon tennis tournament where he worked. Usually, Mitch reads the British tabloid when he was in England, but on this visit, he remembered Morrie and his inevitable death. Mitch thought about how many hours he spent on a futile and meaningless effort, such as reading a tabloid, and instead wanted to use his time as Morrie did, immersed in an effort that would enrich his life.
Mitch also remembered what Morrie had told him about rejecting a culture of society that was not conducive to his own development. Indeed, Morrie has developed his own culture, involving himself in discussion groups, friends, books, and dancing. Morrie has also created a project called Greenhouse, which provides mental health services for the poor. Unlike Mitch, Morrie does not waste valuable time in his life to develop his own culture and use his time for good things. But not with Mitch, Mitch spent his time working to death, after dedicating his life to making money. Morrie now realizes that he must pursue love and community, an effort that will give him the purpose and meaning in his life.
Mitch Flashes returned to his second year of college, when he took two programs with Morrie as his professor. They meet outside the classroom to talk, and share relationships that Mitch has never experienced with an adult. In speaking, Mitch will express his problems and concerns to Morrie, and, in turn, Morrie will try to provide life lessons. He warned Mitch that money is not the most important thing in the world, and that he must aspire to be "fully human." Morrie acted as a father figure to Mitch, because he could not have such conversations with his own father. Instead, Morrie encouraged Mitch to pursue his dream of becoming a famous musician and continued to practice the piano.
The First Tuesday: We Talk about the World (Chapter 8)
Mitch remembered how Morrie loved food, and brought a food warehouse for his first Tuesday visit. Even on campus, Mitch and Morrie met regularly on Tuesday, mostly to discuss Mitch's thesis, which Mitch said he wrote on Morrie's advice. When Morrie had to go to the bathroom Connie helped him. He needs someone else to wipe him after using the toilet, because that is the last sign of dependence. He told Mitch that today is getting closer to Morrie's death. However, Morrie admitted he was trying to enjoy the process of becoming a baby once again.
Morrie explained that he now felt closeness with all those who felt suffering, even those he read on the news, like civilian victims of war in Bosnia. He wept for people he had never met before; he admitted he cried all the time. Mitch, however, never cried, but said that Morrie had tried to make him cry since his college days. Morrie told Mitch that the most important thing to learn in life is how to give love, and how to let it enter. He quoted Levine "Love is the only rational action." Mitch listened intently and took heart, when he kissed Morrie when he left, a display of affection that was unusual on his side. When they separated, Morrie asked Mitch if he would return next Tuesday.
The Second Tuesday: We Talk about Feeling Sorry for Yourself (Chapter 9)
On the second Tuesday, Mitch spent time with Morrie. Mitch turned off his cellphone so that his co-worker did not disturb his time with the professor. However, the newspaper union where he worked in Detroit continued to strike because he had no job. The situation of the strike has become worse.
Mitch brought a bag of Morrie delicacies. Now, Morrie is limited to his studies, and continues to bell on his side to signal help. Mitch asked Morrie if he felt sorry for himself. Morrie replied that sometimes, he did it, usually in the morning. He grieves over his body and controls that have been lost, and cries if he needs to. After that, however, Morrie moved and admitted how lucky he was to have time to say goodbye to the person he loved before he died. He consciously limited the amount of time he spent feeling sorry for himself, because he knew he had to enjoy the little life he left behind. Mitch was surprised that Morrie had called himself lucky when he had to endure such suffering.
While Morrie was in the bathroom with his assistant Connie, who had to help him, Mitch looked through Boston newspapers and read disturbing news about murder and hatred. He put down the paper when Morrie returned from the bathroom, and helped him to return to the wheelchair. Holding Morrie on his arm, Mitch was touched in a way he could not describe, only to say that he could feel the "seed of death in his wrinkled body." That's when Mitch realized that his time with Morrie was up, and that he had to do something.
Third Tuesday: We Talk about Regret (Chapter 10)
The following Tuesday mitch with a food bag and bring a tape recorder too. At first, Mitch felt that the tape recorder could be annoying and worried that it would make Morrie uncomfortable. But Morrie welcomed him, and insisted that he wanted Mitch to hear the story. Mitch admitted that using a tape recorder was also an attempt to capture the remains of Morrie's life in Dunin and remember it after his death. He wondered if Morrie had regretted knowing he was dying. Morrie responded with a lesson about how culture does not encourage people to think about death and regret until they approach the day of their death. When they live, they are concerned about selfish things, but they must constantly retreat and assess their lives to determine what is there and what is missing from it. Morrie mentions that often, people need to get thrust from them in a certain direction, and Mitch realizes that Morrie is his teacher. Mitch decided to be the best student he could be.
The Audiovisual, Part Two (Chapter 11)
Ted Koppel interviewed Morrie for the second time. Koppel commented that Morrie "looked fine," and Morrie replied that only he could know the deterioration that happened every day, which was evident in his chaotic conversation. Morrie explained that love unfortunately nourished his high spirits. He mentioned Maurie Stein was a good friend for sending Morrie aphorisms to a reporter from the Boston Globe newspaper. Koppel asked how the two would communicate, and Morrie replied that they would hold hands; after thirty-five years of friendship, they don't need to talk or hear to communicate with each other.
Since his first appearance on "Nightline," Morrie has received letters from viewers throughout the country. A woman, a teacher, wrote that she had a special class of nine young students, all of whom had lost their parents to early death. Morrie was moved to tears, she remembered her mother's death when she was a child. He cries shamelessly in front of the camera, and tells Koppel that he still feels the pain he felt seventy years ago after learning of his mother's death.
Professor (Chapter 12)
In flashback to his childhood morrie. Morrie remembers reading a telegram that carries news of his mother's death. Because his father, a Russian immigrant, could not read English, eight-year-old Morrie was the first person to hear the news. On the way to the funeral, his aunt, who was hysterical, asked Morrie what he would do without his mother, and what would happen to him now, without him taking care of him.
Morrie's father, Charlie, had come to America to escape the Russian Army. He rarely works and his family lives in absolute poverty. After the death of his mother, Morrie and his brother, David, were sent to live and work in a hotel in Connecticut. One night, the children played outside in heavy rain. The next morning, David could not move his legs, because he had polio. However, Morrie thought that rain had caused paralysis, and had blamed himself for the suffering of his brother. He went to the synagogue to pray. David and his dead mother.
Morrie's father did not love his sons at all, but his second wife, Eva, gave tenderness and care to the sons they desired. Apart from his extraordinary poverty, Eva stressed the importance of education, which according to Morrie was very serious. Morrie had been told by his father not to mention his mother at all, because he wanted David to think that Eva was his biological mother. Morrie was burdened by this request, and kept a telegram sent to notify them of his mother's death, the only evidence ever.
Fourth Tuesday: We Talk about Death (Chapter 13)
Morrie told Mitch that everyone was aware that they would eventually die, even though no one really believed. In Detroit, the newspaper strike continued, and Mitch still didn't work. Again, he recorded the news that was full of violence that he heard and read, namely O.J. The trial of Simpson's murder. In Morrie's office, news shows are not important, and they focus on more meaningful subjects.
Morrie is now somewhat dependent on the oxygen machine for breathing. Mitch asked him how someone could be prepared to die. Morrie answers with Buddhist philosophy that every day, one must ask the bird on his shoulder if that day is the day he will die. Morrie adopted the values and parables of various religions; Mitch was described as a "religious mutt," Morrie was born into Judaism, but turned into an agnostic during his teenage years. Morrie reveals that only once a person knows how to die, can he then know how to live. He repeated this idea for reinforcement, and Mitch asked him if he had considered death before contracting ALS. Morrie replied that he didn't think too much about death before his illness; In fact, he once vowed to a friend that he would be the "most healthy old man" his friend had ever met.
Men talk about why facing the reality of death is very difficult for most people. Morrie said that realizing that death is imminent is to realize what's important, so you see your life in a completely different light. Morrie also told Mitch that if he accepted death, he might not be as ambitious now, because he would see that he had to spend time on what was meaningful to him, and not work to make money. Morrie urged Mitch to further consider "spiritual development," and acknowledged that he was uncertain what the phrase meant, although he believed that people were too involved in their own material goods and selfishness. Morrie noted that he appreciated what he saw from his window, even though he could not go out and enjoy it.
Morrie continues to receive letters from viewers who have seen interviews with Ted Koppel on "Nightline." He dictated responses to friends and family, and one afternoon when he and his sons Rob and Jon responded to a note from a woman named Nancy who had lost her mother to ALS and said she sympathized with Morrie for her suffering.
Fifth Tuesday: We Talk about Family (Chapter 14)
In September, the first time in thirty-five years, Morrie did not return to teach. Mitch noted that Morrie's clothes were getting loose, because he quickly lost muscle and body mass. His shirt was sagging so Mitch had to keep adjusting Morrie's microphone. Morrie enjoyed this physical closeness, because he now felt a stronger need for love than before. He tells Mitch that someone's family is someone's foundation, such as love and attention that giving family is very valuable. He then quotes Auden, his favorite poet, who says, "Love or perish." Mitch wrote this. Friend, urged Morrie, not the same as having a family. Sometimes they are there, but the family is always there.
When he thought of Morrie and his wife and children, Mitch wondered if he would feel a void that would be unbearable if he was dying and not having his own children. Morrie told him that he had never dictated whether someone should or should not have children; he would say that there is no experience like having children. He said that even though he was very happy about raising children, he was saddened by the thought of their lives without him.
Morrie asked Mitch about his own family, which he met at his graduation graduation. Mitch revealed that he had an older sister and a younger brother. When he thought of his older brother, Mitch was silent. He revealed that his brother, who had moved to Europe very well after graduating from high school, had distanced himself from his family, because he did not want their help in the battle with pancreatic cancer.
Mitch is a boy in the family, and his brother is bad. Mitch often feels too conservative in front of his brother, who is funny and charming. Sin after the death of his uncle, Mitch was assured that he would die suddenly of an illness, and prepare for cancer. However, the cancer did not attack Mitch; on the contrary his brother had cancer. Mitch's brother continued to refuse help from the family, because he wanted to deal with his own cancer. Every time Mitch called his brother's house in Spain and had heard a message on his answering machine, which was spoken in Spanish, it served as a sad reminder of the great distance between them. Mitch remembers his childhood going on a sled with his brother. They almost got hit by a car, and after their initial fear and shock subsided, and they were safe, they felt proud and felt ready to risk their hearts once again.
The Sixth Tuesday: We Talk about Emotions (Chapter 15)
Arriving at Morrie's house, Mitch was not welcomed by Connie as usual, but by Charlotte, Morrie's wife. In accordance with Morrie's wishes, Charlotte has maintained her job as a professor at M.I.T. He told Mitch that Morrie had not had a good day, and also admitted that he could no longer eat the food Mitch brought every week, because he could only swallow food and soft liquids. Morrie didn't tell him, because he didn't want to hurt Mitch's feelings. Charlotte looked sad, and Mitch linked his distant view, because he often stayed up all night with Morrie when he couldn't sleep. Morrie's condition declined rapidly, and now there are home health care workers who work 24 hours to take care of him. Mitch saw many bottles of pills lining the kitchen table. According to Mitch, it was significant about Morrie suffering from an illness called an athlete, Lou Gehrig. Morrie urged Mitch to speak to Gehrig giving his farewell speech where he said he was "the luckiest man in the world." However, Morrie did not feel the same way.
The Review
A review of this novel that Morrie is a professor with ALT. It was explained in the title of orientation that Morrie was reunited by the mitch of his favorite student who had been separated for 16 years. Morrie gives direction to Mitch that life is not only focused on work and to make money because life must be enjoyed and loved by people. Morrie said time is a valuable thing that must be enjoyed. From the contents of this novel, it tells the journey of his life, Morrie, which from time to time sees his progress getting worse with his illness. This novel inspires us that life must be used and enjoyed well because a whole person will face death's moral words.
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