Quotes From Tuesdays With Morrie

In Tuesdays with Morrie, by Mitch Albom, the book contains many different themes and transformations throughout the whole story, the book’s emphasis is the importance of relationships, love, and living with intention, throughout the story we see Mitch transform as somebody that didn’t live with intention but tried to do too much, losing many relationships to then seeing him be confident with himself and increase his relationships with many other people. Throughout the story, Mitch’s identity transformation from having self-doubt to being confident in himself connects to the theme of life lessons between Morrie and Mitch. In the book, we can see how Morrie's education improves Mitch’s life and shows him that he can be himself and the culture

This example shows how Mitch is having self-doubt and having trouble figuring out what he is doing with his life after college, as it says in the quote he is struggling and failing, and this is until he meets Morrie again. Lastly, this quote before Mitch’s transformation is about how Mitch feels unsatisfied with his life and this fits into Mitch’s character transformation because before he had ever seen Morrie again, he was unhappy with his life. This example shows how Mitch has always been seen as unsatisfied with his life and always wanting to do more because he had always been doing the same thing day to day, and before he met Morrie, he was a different person always looking for something better. During Mitch’s transformation, he started talking more with Morrie which led to Mitch having, less self-doubt, thinking and asking about his own life and what he can do better and listening to what other people, Morrie must tell him. Mitch finally realizes that he is slowly losing Morrie and cherishes his time with him. This first quote is said by Mitch, who says it because he was taking care of Morrie and soon had to move Morrie into a completely different

“Can you imagine being unable to move your own head” (131). This example shows how Mitch has compassion and empathy for what Morrie is going through as he can barely move but is still teaching and trying to stay strong for Mitch and himself, with his journey of a very bad disease. This quote is from Mitch just a few days after Morrie had finally lost his battle with ALS, and just before Morrie died, he told Mitch, “When you miss me, you talk and I’ll listen”, after Morrie had passed away Mitch used his advice and went to his grave, after he must have not spent enough time with Morrie. “You talk, I will listen.I tried doing that in my head and, to my happiness, found that the imagined conversation felt almost natural. I looked down at my hands, saw my watch, and realized why. It was Tuesday.” (188). This example shows how even though Morrie’s gone, and it is hard for Mitch to live without him, only the person is gone, but not the relationship that Morrie and Mitch always