Name
：Ho Wing Yan, Gina
Class
：6A
Title
：Tuesdays with Morrie
Author ：Mitch Albom
Publisher ：Warner Books
SBC-I13
Summary:
This book was about the writer’s professor, Morrie Schwartz. He was a small man who took small
steps, as if a strong wind could, whisk him up into the cloud. He had always been a dancer and he used
to go to a church every Wednesday night for something called “Dance Free”. Unluckily, the dancing
stopped because he developed asthma in his sixties. His breathing became labored and he could not
dance anymore. A few years later, he began to have trouble walking and he found that he had
amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), a brutal, unforgiving illness of the neurological system. This took
no more than five years from the day the patient contact ALS and it would make the patient die of
choking. Therefore, Morrie only had five or less years left. But he was not ashamed of dying. Instead,
Mitch and Morrie met on Tuesdays and the subject was The Meaning Of Life, it was taught from his
experience. This book was about their classes, life’s greatest lessons.
Comments:
After reading this book, I find that the title and subtitle of this book are very suitable to its story. It’s
because this book is totally about the classes that Mitch met with Morrie on Tuesdays and the meaning
of life. That’s why the title of it is “Tuesdays with Morrie, an old man, a young man, and life’s greatest
lesson”. Now, let me talk about the feelings and my personal experience that I would like to share.
On the fifth Tuesday, they talked about ‘Family’ and I think family is very important to anyone. If
you don’t have the support and love and caring and concern that you get from the family, you don’t
have much at all. It’s because family’s members can give you the love that the others can’t give, they
will support and care you no matter who you are. Imagine you are sick or sad, who can give you care or
share the sadness with you? The others may not do that, but your family will do that. This is due to the
love that a family has. Therefore, the love of family is supremely important to everyone.
They talked about the fear of aging on the seventh Tuesday. Morrie said that many people had the
fear of getting older and older, and I am one of them. Although I am only sixteen years old, I don’t like
to be an adult. It’s because I am afraid of being an adult, I think that the society of adults are very
complicated. I don’t want to complicate my life, I just want to have a simple life. However, after
reading this book, I find that we should embrace aging because we can learn more and lead to a better
life. As a result, I know that aging can let us have a better life, so I will not fear of aging anymore.
On the Eighth Tuesday, they talked about ‘Money’, they found that many people thought that more
money, more property and more commercialism are good. But is that true? I don’t think so. Although
more money can make people feeling happy, I think there are other things that make people happy,
such as, a healthy body, and the love of the family. Imagine you have a lot of money, but you don’t
have a healthy body or the love that gets from your family, will you be happy too? Consequently,
money is just one of the elements of having a better life, but not the major element.
Finally, Morrie died on a Saturday after their final visit. His family was with him in the house.
However, when those he loved had left the room just for a moment, to grab coffee in the kitchen, the
first time none of them were with him since the coma began, he stopped breathing. This just like the
moment when my grandfather was gone, I was very unhappy about that and I regretted that I wasn’t
with him at that moment. After reading this book, I think he died this way on purpose just like Morrie.
He didn’t want to have chilling moments and no one to witness his last breath, so he could pass away
peacefully. Now, I won’t regret about that, instead I will respect his decision.
Lastly, I think that this book can really give me the life’s greatest lessons and I would like to
recommend this book to my friend. I hope that they can share their comment with me one day.