Figurative Language In Tuesday With Morrie

I’m sure you are not 100% sure on what a memoir is. To clarify, a memoir is a historical account or a biography written about one person, and is told from personal knowledge or special sources. Never have read one before? Than your first choice should be tuesdays with Morrie. tuesdays with Morrie is a novel written by Mitch Albom about himself interacting, connecting with his former college professor, Morrie Schwartz. Coach (which was Morrie’s nickname) played a big part in Mitch’s life, who was the (player). Morrie, every Tuesday, continuously talked to Mitch about life and how to live life to its fullest. In this novel, the author uses dialogue and a full circle ending to portray the theme, we learn most about living through death.

To start off, the author uses figurative language to portray the theme that most of our knowledge of living is through death. First off, this is shown in the story in chapter 4, which states, “Yes. But there’s a better approach. To know you’re going to die, and to be prepared for it at any time. That’s better. That way you can actually be more involved in your life while you’re living (81).” What Morrie was trying to explain on the fourth Tuesday

This is shown in both the beginning and the end of the novel which says, “The last class of my old professor’s life took place once a week, in his home, by a window in his study where he could watch a small hibiscus plant shed its pink flowers. The class met on Tuesdays. No books were required. The subject was the meaning of life. It was taught from experience.” What Mitch Albom was trying to put into words was that there is two sides of life. One side is death and one side is living. By living life the way you want, you actually don’t mind about aging or dying even because you lived each day to the best of your abilities and have no regrets. You have left your life on Earth the right