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Tuesdays with Morrie

By: Mitch Albom

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By: Kate, Rylee, Jaxon, and Austin

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Overview

Tuesdays with Morrie is a non-fiction book about Morrie and Mitch. Morrie is Mitch’s favorite professor from college, but now Morrie is slowly dying from a terminal illness known as ALS. Mitch meets up with Morrie every Tuesday and keeps record of all of the crucial things Morrie has to say about life.

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What we took away from the book

Kate

Rylee

Jaxon

Austin

Something I took away from the book was the life lessons it taught Mitch. I think this lesson means to not take life for granted and live life to the fullest.

Something I liked about this book was the life advice it gave and how it made death seem less dark.

Something I took away from the book is to do your own thing or have your “own culture” as Morrie says along with all the other life lessons spread throughout the book.

I enjoyed this book because it showed both perspectives. Something I took away from the book was to not take anything for granted because it can be gone in an instant. Morrie says, “Once you learn how to die, you learn how to live.”

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A Topic We Researched Further - ALS

  • Morrie was diagnosed with ALS at the beginning of the book
  • This disease is the main topic of the book and is very important throughout the story
  • Knowing what ALS is can increase understanding of the book

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Prior Knowledge

Before researching ALS and reading Tuesdays with Morrie:

  • We had little prior knowledge upon the disease
  • Three of us had no idea the disease even existed
  • One of us read a book prior with a character who had the disease ( Final Season by Tim Green)

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A resource we used

  • Article title: Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS)
  • Author: John Hopkins Medicine
  • What we learned that added to the book
    • ALS causes nerve cells in the brain and spinal cord to die
    • ALS does not affect senses
    • Most cases of ALS have no genetic cause

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What the book taught us about this topic

  • Morrie’s struggles through ALS shows us the harsh reality of the disease
  • ALS attacks everything in your body starting from basic functions
  • ALS attacks the lungs and then lastly stops brain activity
  • Morrie lost the ability to move first, but

could still talk until just before he passed

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How it lines up with what the article taught us

  • ALS slowly deteriorates the body which we can see happening to Morrie in the book
  • ALS stops you from doing basic tasks which we can see from Morrie when he becomes very sedentary
  • Article expanded our knowledge of ALS, which helps us understand the book more

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Final Conclusions

  • Tuesdays with Morrie is a very influential book
  • Many key takeaways and life lessons
  • Not action packed, but still eventful
  • Very powerful and worth reading
  • Any questions or critiques?