Tuesdays with Morrie By Mitch Albom Chapter 06

Tuesdays with Morrie By Mitch Albom Chapter 06

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Chapter Six (Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom)

CHAPTER SIX – The Classroom
29 32 Morrie tells Albom that people see him as a ‘bridge’. What does he mean by this? Morrie means that, whilst he is not dead, he is no longer truly alive. Instead he is in-between the two poles and can thus tell people about the transition from life to death.
30 32-34 ‘What happened to me’? Albom kept asking himself this question as he spoke with his professor. Why was this question consuming him? As he spoke to Morrie, Albom realised that he had changed a great deal from his university days. He was no longer the freedom loving young man he had once been; instead he had traded that and a good deal more for a ‘big pay check’.
31 35 Morrie seems to think that it is worse to live unhappily than it is to die happily. Why does he think that so many people who come to visit him are unhappy? Morrie believes that one of the main reasons that people are unhappy is a culture which doesn’t make them feel good about themselves.
32 37 At the end of their meeting, Morrie did something which Albom claims still haunts him to this day. What was this? Morrie demonstrated the extent of his illness by comparing his lung capacity with Albom’s. He did this by asking Albom to exhale whilst counting to the highest number he could. Albom reached 70 but Morrie only reached 18. When he first did this test when he was taught it by his doctor he could reach 23.
33 40 When Morrie was Albom’s student, the professor told him about something he called ‘the tension of opposites’. What was this? ‘The tension of opposites’ describes how people live their lives as a series of pulls and pushes. You want to do one thing and yet feel duty bound to do something else. As a consequence, most people end up living somewhere in the middle. Ultimately, Morrie told his student, love will always win in this ‘tug of war’.

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Tuesdays with Morrie By Mitch Albom Chapter 07

Tuesdays with Morrie By Mitch Albom Chapter 07

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Chapter Seven (Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom)

CHAPTER SEVEN – Taking Attendance
34 41 A few weeks after his reunion with Morrie, Albom flew to London to cover a sporting event. Which event was this and what did he think of it? The sporting event which Albom flew to London to cover was Wimbledon. Albom liked the event very much because the crowds never booed and people were never drunk in the car park.
35 42 On his previous visits to England, Albom had enjoyed reading the tabloid newspapers which covered nothing but mindless gossip and thoughtless news articles. On this visit, however, every time he read anything silly or mindless he found himself thinking about Morrie. Why was this? Every time Albom read anything silly or mindless he found himself thinking about Morrie because whilst his former professor was spending every last minute in pain, with the people he loved, Albom was wasting his time on things which didn’t matter in the slightest.
37 44 After several weeks covering the tennis in Wimbledon, Albom returned to Detroit only to be greeted by a shocking piece of news. What was this? When Albom returned to Detroit he discovered that the unions at his newspaper had gone out on strike. As a member of the union, Albom was left with no choice but to join them.
38 44-45 Three days into the strike and the rumour began to circulate that the industrial action would likely last for months. Faced with the prospect of a prolonged period off work, what did Albom do? Faced with the prospect of months off work, Albom phoned Morrie. After a conversation, the two decided that Albom should again pay his former professor a visit. The two decided that Tuesday would be most suitable.
39 47 Whilst he was at college, Albom’s father wanted his son to train as a lawyer after he graduated whilst Albom wanted to pursue his dream of playing piano professionally. What did Morrie think about this? Morrie ‘hated lawyers’ and, though he believed the life of a musician was a hard one, thought that Albom would find a way of making his dream come true if he wanted it enough.

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Tuesdays with Morrie By Mitch Albom Chapter 08

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Chapter Eight (Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom)

CHAPTER EIGHT – The First Tuesday We Talk About The World
40 48 When Albom arrived to meet Morrie, he found him sitting in his wheelchair by the kitchen table. Albom noticed that he was wearing an extremely baggy pair of sweatpants. What did Albom put this down to? When Albom met Morrie, he noticed that his former professor was wearing an extremely baggy pair of trackpants. He attributed how baggy they were to Morrie’s condition. As he was now wheelchair bound his legs were in an advanced state of atrophy.
41 48 When Albom sat down with Morrie at the kitchen table, he presented his old professor with a small gift. What was this and why did Albom feel the need to contribute it? Albom presented Morrie with a small brown paper bag filled with some simple food stuffs. He felt the need to contribute this, despite knowing that there would be plenty of food at the house, because he was keen to try and help Morrie and yet felt entirely powerless to do so in any other, more meaningful way.
42 49 As the pair sat and talked, Morrie confessed that he was soon going to need someone to ‘wipe his ass’, as he had foreseen whilst being interviewed by Koppelr. Morrie confessed that this fact bothered him as it was the ultimate sign of dependency and yet he told Albom that he was going to try and enjoy it. For what reason did he think that this might be possible? Morrie was honest with Albom and confessed that the thought of someone having to ‘wipe his ass’ was not a pleasant thought. Yet the old professor still hoped to enjoy the process if only he could persuade himself to do so after all, Morrie argued, it would be an opportunity to live like a baby one more time.
43 50-51 As a reporter, Albom was used to covering a number of different events including interviewing grieving parents and attending funerals. Never once, the journalist admitted, had be ever felt truly emotional at any of these events and certainly was never brought to tears. Morrie, on the other hand, found himself crying when watching news broadcasts about the then ongoing war in Bosnia. For what reason did Morrie think that he was able to feel such empathy. Morrie accounted for his strong sense of empathy by attributing it to his disease. Since his condition became worse, and the old man really began to suffer, he told Albom that he now was able to relate other people’s pain in a more direct and immediate way.
44 51-52 ‘We are Tuesday people’. Why did Morrie mean by this? Albom felt that it was only fitting that they were meeting on a Tuesday because, whilst he had been Morrie’s student, the two had the majority of their contact on that day of the week. In response to this, Morrie had concluded that they were ‘Tuesday people’.
45 52 As Albom began to ready himself to leave, Morrie told him about the most important thing which his disease had taught him. What was this? The most important thing which Morrie’s disease taught him was to ‘give out love and let love in’. Morrie told his former student that many people don’t feel comfortable letting love in to their lives because they don’t believe that they deserve it and yet love is ‘the only rational act’, the most important thing in life.
46 53-54 As part of a class, many years earlier, Morrie had attempted to educate his students about the effect of silence on human relations by walking into the classroom and then sitting at the desk but remaining perfectly silent for the first fifteen minutes. At the end of the class, Morrie had taken Albom to one side and told him that he reminded him of someone. Who was this and why? At the end of the class, Morrie told his student that the young man reminded him of himself because he too had liked to keep things to himself when he was a young man.

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Tuesdays with Morrie By Mitch Albom Chapter 09

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Chapter Nine (Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom)

CHAPTER NINE – The Second Tuesday We Talk About Feeling Sorry For Yourself.
47 56 After their meeting, Albom flew home to Detroit but returned the next Tuesday to see his old professor. Soon, the 700 mile journey became a weekly affair with each. party looking forward to their next meeting. As his disease progressed, these meetings moved from the kitchen table to Morrie’s study where he had a chair which had been set up to maximise his comfort. Why did the old professor keep a bell near his side? With the disease progressing, even the most simple of tasks now proved impossible. For this reason, he kept a bell by his side so that he could easily get the attention of his care workers who would be asked to perform any number of tasks including the most simple such as moving his head to a more comfortable position or helping him get to the toilet.
48 57 Morrie admits to Albom that he sometimes feels sorry for himself, especially in the morning when he first wakes up. How is Morrie able to stop himself feeling this way. Morrie admits to Albom that he does sometimes feel sorry for himself, but he is able to stop feeling this way by focusing on all of the good things still in his life such as people coming to see him,
49 60-61 Many years earlier, when Albom was still Morrie’s student, the old professor had a class called ‘Group Process’ in which the students were encouraged to experiment with human feelings, using their own interaction as an experiment. One exercise in this class involved a trust experiment. One student was asked to stand facing away from a second and allow themselves to fall into their partners arms. What was this designed to teach the students. This experiment was designed to teach the students to trust what they feel over what they see. This is important because if you ‘are ever going to have other people trust you, then you must learn to trust them first’.

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Tuesdays with Morrie By Mitch Albom Chapter 10

Tuesdays with Morrie By Mitch Albom Chapter 10

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Chapter Ten (Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom)

CHAPTER TEN – The Third Tuesday We Talk About Regrets.
50 62 On the third Tuesday, Albom turned up at Morrie’s house carrying the usual selection of food. However, on this occasion, he brought something else. What was this and what did Albom want it for? In addition to the usual selection of food, on the ‘third Tuesday’ Albom turned up at Morrie’s house with a tape recorder because, he told the old man, he wanted to have a record of their conversations. However, as Albom admits to his readers, it was more than a personal record that he wanted – he wanted to be able to share the old man’s wisdom with the world before it was too late.
51 65-66 On his way home from their meeting, Albom decided to make a list of the great questions which all people seek an answer to. Why did he have confidence that Morrie would be able to help him find an answer in a way which others could not. Albom believed that Morrie’s disease and suffering had given him an incisive clarity when considering life and divining importance making him a more suitable teacher than the ‘self-help’ industry.
52 67-68 When Albom was in his senior year at University, Morrie encouraged his student to write a thesis as part of his degree. What topic did the student and professor decide Albom should write on? After much discussion, Albom decided to write his thesis on America football and how it had become a sort of ‘religion’ within America.

 

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Tuesdays with Morrie By Mitch Albom Chapter 11

Tuesdays with Morrie By Mitch Albom Chapter 11

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Chapter Eleven (Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom)

CHAPTER ELEVEN – The Audiovisual Part Two
53 69 Sometime after the first ‘nightline’ interview, Koppelr had returned to interview Morrie for a second time. What reason does Albom give for this? Albom tells his readers that the reason Koppelr returned to do a follow-up interview with Morrie was because the first interview proved so popular with the viewing public.
54 70 During the interview, Koppelr and Morrie discussed the progression of his disease. What two bodily function did Morrie tell Koppelr were most important to him and he dreaded losing the most? The two bodily functions which Morrie most dreaded losing was the ability to speak, and the ability to move his hands. These two things were most important to him because it was with these two things that Morrie was able to communicate with other people, that Morrie was able ‘to give to people’.
55 71 During the interview, Koppel mentioned Maurie Stein, a long term friend of Morrie who was now going deaf. Koppel imagined what it would the two might be able to relate to each other in the future when one couldn’t speak and the other couldn’t hear. What did Morrie say the two would do instead of speak? Morrie told Koppelr that two people who have known each other as long as he had known Stein did not need language to communicate. Instead the two of them would just hold hands and share love – ‘you don’t need speech or hearing to feel that’, the old professor told his interviewer.
56 71-72 During the interview, Morrie was moved to tears. What was the thought that caused this? The thought of the death of his mother nearly seventy years ago moved Morrie to tears during his second interview with Koppelr.

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