14 Uninterrupted Sundays Analysis

In life, one must realize that it is impossible to be perfect, and so there are always going to be things that one will regret. Albom is saddened when he hears that former doctor of sociology and favorite professor is passing away, from Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis when seeing his story on Nightline anchored by Ted Koppel. He reminisces about his classes and friendly episodes they had together. Stricken with ALS, Albom knows Morrie doesn’t have a lot of time left and travels to Massachusetts from Michigan when reminded of the promise he made 16 years ago. This consultation goes indeterminately satisfactorily that they rendezvous for the next 14 uninterrupted Tuesdays. In these consultations they discuss life’s true and greatest meaning before

He went on about how society doesn’t cherish the intimacy and warmth of being loved. He was overcome with a sense of nostalgia when discussing this subject because he had grown up in a household that didn’t show their love for one another in a direct manner. His mother had died at a young age and his father remarried. Because of that, the father had been ignorant towards the mothers death and his father was constantly out of a job, but was working in the fur business which is a job that exploited people; he vowed that he would never do any work that exploited others. His brother had Polio. “In the evenings he watched his father eat in silence, hoping for-but never getting- a show of affection, communication, warmth. At nine years old, he felt as if the weight of a mountain was on his shoulder.” This passage from Tuesdays with Morrie shows that he was missing the love and affection a parent gives to a child at a young age. Feeling alone at that young age shaped him into the extrovert that was able to express his emotion because he did not want his children to grow up feeling unloved. His stepmother, Eva had brought a more positive aura in the household because she was more talkative and caring as it was discussed and described in the memoir. “Morrie waited on those kisses like a puppy waits on milk” In this analogy it shows the affection he had missed for the years after his mother 's passing. It hints towards desperation because of how the analogy was structured and what he was being compared to at a seemingly late age. When Eva came into his life, she had found him in a state were he was able to hide his need to be loved so well because he hadn’t felt it in a long