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 05

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Chapter Five (Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom)

CHAPTER FIVE – The Orientation
25 27 Inspired by this interview, which Albom had seen when it was broadcast on television, Albom decided to pay Morrie a visit. What fact about his reunion with his former professor was Albom ‘not proud of’? Albom was not proud of putting his work first on his reunion with his former professor. When he arrived at Morrie’s house, he decided to conclude a business call rather than leaping straight out of the car and greeting his former professor.
26 28 When Albom and Morrie finally met again, they shared an emotional reunion. However Albom felt uncomfortable. Why was this? Albom felt uncomfortable with the warmth of their reunion because he knew that he ‘was no longer the good, gift-bearing student he remembered’.
27 30 During the years in which Albom was taught by Morrie, the professor had shown himself to be uninterested in grades and marking and, it was rumoured, during the Vietnam war Morrie had given all of his male students ‘As’. Why had he done this? It was rumoured that Morrie had given all of his male students ‘As’ during the Vietnam War so that they could keep their student deferments and thus not be conscripted into the army.
28 30-31 What nickname did Albom give Morrie, and how did his professor react to this? Albom began to call Morrie ‘coach’, in the same way that he did his track coach. Morrie was delighted with this nick name and told Albom that ‘I’ll be your coach. And you can be my Player. You can play all the lovely parts of life that I am too old for now.’

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Tuesdays with Morrie By Mitch Albom Chapter 04

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Chapter Four (Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom)

CHAPTER FOUR – The Audiovisual
20 18 Albom tells his readers that he had lost contact with Morrie and did not know about his illness. How did he find out about it? Albom discovered about his former professor’s illness when it was featured on ‘Nightline’, a weekly television show hosted by Ted Koppel on ABC-TV.
21 20 Before agreeing to be featured on ‘Nightline’, Morrie insisted upon asking Ted Koppel, the show’s presenter, two questions. What were these? Morrie asked Koppel two questions before agreeing to be featured on Nightline. The first of these was ‘Tell me something close to your heart’. The second was ‘Tell me something about your faith’.
22 21 How many times had Albom seen ‘Nightline’ before agreeing to feature on the show, and what opinion had he formed of the show’s host, Koppel? Albom had only seen the show twice. Based on these occasions he had thought that Koppel, the show’s host, was a narcissist.
23 21 During the interview for ‘Nightline’, Morrie told Koppel that he had decided to live through the disease in the best way that he could. What characterised how Morrie tried to live what remained of his life? Four things characterised how Morrie tried to live with the illness: dignity, courage, humour composure.
24 22 During the interview, the two discussed many different topics. One of these topics was Morrie’s increased dependency on other people. At this point, Morrie felt the need to ask Koppel’s permission before revealing a fact to the camera. Despite the potentially shocking nature of what Morrie had to say, Koppel gave him permission. What was this fact? Morrie told the audience of Nightline that ‘one day soon, someone’s gonna have to wipe my ass’.

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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 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 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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