Comparing Mitch Albom's Tuesdays With Morrie

Many people share their similarities and differences, but two people are never the same. Some have positive traits like being better at certain things like a subject or job, and some have poor traits like bad behavior or lack of discipline. In the book, Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom, Morrie Schwartz is dying of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), and Mitch Albom is a former student of Morrie’s who is now a sports reporter. Morrie and Mitch share many traits, but they are indeed very different in character. In Tuesdays with Morrie, Morrie and Mitch are very different but very similar to each other. Some of these differences are Morrie is wiser and less stressed, while Mitch is materialistic and focuses on man made things.

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Mitch didn’t have time for anything. It is shown in the book when it says, “Had it not been for “Nightline,” Morrie might have died without ever seeing me again. I had no good excuse for this, except the one that “Tuesdays with Morrie” By Mitch Albom 11 everyone these days seems to have. I had become too wrapped up in the siren song of my own life. I was busy.” (Albom 10 pdf). Mitch doesn’t have time for anything and it is shown in this sentence. He forgot all about Morrie and was focused on his life. Not only Morrie was affected by this but also his future with Janine. Morrie talks about all the things that people might find stressful. He says this about it, ““Well, I have to look at life uniquely now. Let’s face it. I can’t go shopping, I can’t take care of the bank accounts, I can’t take out the garbage. But I can sit here with my dwindling days and look at what I think is important in life. I have both the time—and the reason—to do that.””(Albom 15 pdf). These are some of the things that younger people would do as chores or just stuff that might be annoying to some people. Now that Morrie has ALS he is not able to do those things anymore, so he doesn’t have to stress about them. Mitch and Morrie both have different lifestyles but it is expressed how stressful either of

Morrie is taking use of the people around him. In the book it states this when Mitch says this about Morrie, “In fact, he entertained a growing stream of visitors. He had discussion groups about dying, what it really meant, how societies had always been afraid of it without necessarily understanding it.” (Albom 5 pdf). Mitch is talking about how enthusiastic Morrie is around people such as his friends. He is really taking use of the time he has left by enjoying it with his friends. Mitch takes use of his materialistic things like money over his relationships with one another. I found this when Morrie says, “Mitch,” he said, laughing along, “even I don’t know what ‘spiritual development’ really means. But I do know we’re deficient in some way. We are too involved in materialistic things, and they don’t satisfy us. The loving relationships we have, the universe around us, we take these things for granted.” (25 Albom pdf). Morrie says that “we” are too involved with materialistic things. He isn’t just talking about Mitch, but it applies to us too. Mitch is a workaholic for money and he doesn’t take full use of his relationships around him. The use of relationships and the things around Morrie shows how different him and Mitch