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Tuesdays With Morrie

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Albom, Mitch. Tuesdays With Morrie

 

 


 

Description

 

 

 

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Tuesdays With Morrie is a true story about sportswriter Mitch Albom and his favorite college professor, Morrie Schwartz.  Albom develops a strong bond with his teacher during his college years, and promised to stay in touch after graduation.  However, because of frustration with his job and dealings with the "real world", Albom forgets about his college professor.  Meanwhile, Morrie gets diagnosed with ALS.

 

Sixteen years after graduation, as Albom is flipping through the T.V channels, he recognizes Morrie's voice.  Morrie was being featured on "Nightline" in the first of three interviews with Ted Koppel.  Mitch was stunned to see his old professor on TV, and decides to contact him.  Shortly after the reunion, he begins working on a report on the Wimbledon tennis tournament in London.   While he was there, he thinks a lot about Morrie and  becomes disgusted with the tabloids.  He now seeks more meaning to his life, and knows that he will not get it from celebrity gossip.  Albom begins to doubt what he is doing with his life,  and travels back to Boston to meet Morrie.

 

After their first Tuesday together, Mitch meets Morrie regularly on Tuesdays to listen to Morrie's lessons on the "Meaning of Life", as his professor's life is slowly wasting away. 

 

Author Background

 

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Mitch David Albom was born on May 23, 1958 in Passaic, New Jersey.  He's a graduate from Brandeis University and Columbia University.  Before becoming a journalist, he was a pianist and a nightclub singer.  Albom first became well-known for his columns in Detroit Press Free newspaper.  Between 1985 and 2000, he wrote several sports columns per week.  Each year, his columns were entered in the Associated Press Sports Editors contest with approximately 250,000 participants.  He won first place in column writing 13 times between 1985 and 2000.

 

Albom wrote his best selling novel, Tuesdays With Morrie, in 1997.  After his experience with Morrie Schwartz, he began a volunteer group in 1998 called "A Time To Help".  Every month, the group works on a project to help the Detroit community, including work at homeless shelters, food banks, senior citizens homes, and orphanages.

 

Text, context, history

 

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Questions for book clubs or solitary readers

 

1.  Who do you believe got more out of these meetings- Mitch, or Morrie?  Why?

2.  Would Morrie's lessons have the same impact on Mitch (and the readers) had he not been dying?

3.  Why do you think Mitch decided to record Morrie's lessons, and why do you think that he decided to publish them?

4.  What was the significance of Mitch's reunion with his brother Peter at the end of the book?

5.  Every Tuesday, Mitch and Morrie discuss a new topic.  Which Tuesday do you think was most important?  Why?

 

Further reading/ Works Cited

 

 "MitchAlbom.com- Biography."  Albom.com.   2006.   23 October 2007.

<http://www.albom.com/biography.html>

 

"Mitch Albom."  Authorsontheweb.com.  2003.  23 October 2007.

<http://www.authorsontheweb.com/features/authormonth/0309albom/albom-mitch.asp#bio>

 

 

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