HW 23

Albom, Mitch. tuesdays with Morrie. United States : Doubleday, 1997. Print

Precis 

Morrie is teaching his last class ever. The fourth week of his class was on death. Morrie is trying to convey what death really is to his class.

• ““Everyone knows they’re going to die, he said again, “but nobody believes it. If we did, we did we would do things differently.”” Page. 81 

I believe that what Morrie’s said is true but by doing things differently would that make people less out going and more protective so they would not die or more out going and take more risks with there life.

• ““That way you can actually be more involved in your life while you’re living.”” Page. 81 

This statement is a puzzle because everybody thinks there involved in there life while there living but what I believe Morrie is trying to convey is you should be more aware of your life as you living it and not act a zombie following a simple routine. 

• ““The truth is Mitch,” he said, “once you learn how to die, you learn how to live.””  Page. 82 

This is a powerful line I thought about because most people think about living for most of their life till their about to die when they think about how there going to die. Is it then they are actually supposed to live life? It is hard for a person to think about death in their life because they don’t want it to come but what Morrie is trying to say is that if we thought about death earlier and were not scared of it, then we could live life to the fullest. 

• ““The loving relationships we have, the universe around us, we take these things for granted.” He nodded toward the window with the sunshine streaming in. “You see that? You can go out there, outside, anytime. You can run up and down the block and go crazy. I can’t do that. I can’t go out. I can’t run. I cant’ be out there without fear of getting sick. But you know what? I appreciate that window more than you do.”” Page. 84 

Morrie can ‘t go out side anymore with our fear of getting sick. So threw windows he sees everything and appreciates the little time he is outside because for most of the time he is not able to be out side. It’s like being in prison. If you live in prison and have no life, watching the outside world, blocked from going to it and you finally get to leave. You at fist tended to appreciate everything around you because you know what life with out all of it is like.

• ““This is part of what a family is about, not just love, but letting others know there’s someone who is watching out for them.”” Page. 92 

Family is not just loving people you are related to but knowing that someone always is there to help you.


When I was younger I thought about death a lot. I would ask my mom questions about it because death scared me and she would tell me that it was no good for someone my age to think about death when they have their whole life to live. But those thoughts made me out going and want achieve knew thing because in away I was still scared of death but I knew that it would come no matter what I did and if I didn’t have fun before it came then it was not worth waiting for.