Sunday, March 16, 2008

Mitch Albom “Tuesday with Morrie”

I will introduce this book, “Tuesday with Morrie”, for my classmate. I like this book because I am not good reader but this book still is on my mind. When I was high school, I think about me again because I did not find my future. So, I thought what I do after my future. At this time, I met this book. First of all, I will introduce author, Mitch Albom, who writer about this book. Tuesdays with Morrie is a true story about an elderly man named Morrie Schwartz diagnosed in his seventies with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, AKA Lou Gehrig’s disease. This is memoir between Morrie and Mitch. Morrie is a former professor at Brandies University, and his former student Mitch Album who is employed as a columnist for the Detroit Free Press. As the disease progresses, Morrie shares his outlook on such issues as family, love, emotions, and aging.  Although the cover states “an old man, a young man, and life’s greatest lesson,” Tuesdays actually provides life lessons, and provides an eternal instruction from one of the greatest teachers who ever lived. Why I introduce this book in this class, management also is dealing with person. This is persons' story that can help to mange the person. I think management means have to know how to live this life. So, I introduce this book in this class. Tuesdays with Morrie is an amazing tale of a hero both in life and in death and I firmly believe that every person should listen to the wise words of Morrie Schwartz.  Although many students may have a hard time relating to death, as adolescents often feel a sense of invincibility, the messages of this book is essential.  Students and teachers, youthful teens and aging adults, would greatly benefit their daily lives from reading this simple text.  Through his short aphorisms and “can’t help but love” personality, Morrie Schwartz becomes somewhat of a father or grandfather figure not only to Album but also to the reader as well.  As the final pages grow thinner so do Morrie himself and the reader understands that their time with Morrie as well as his time on Earth will quickly pass by.  The most difficult part of reading Tuesdays is bidding farewell to the man we grow to love for welcoming us into his family.  Luckily, thanks to Mitch Album, we as readers have the ability to connect with the late Morrie Schwartz and hear his powerful words.  One thing that Morrie wanted more than anything else was simply to be remembered and with a text of this magnitude he surely won’t be forgotten anytime soon.  These words of power will reverberate as long as Tuesdays is in print and even long after, for the lessons Morrie offers are timeless and will likely to be passed down from generation to generation. I love this book and I read again and again. If I chance to present for someone and he like to read the book, I usually buy this book and recommend to read it because this book show us how the life is important and Morrie teach to us whole of our life. I like this book.

Ted Lee

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