Tuesday With Morrie by Mitch Albom
A classic revolving and profound literary memoir from the 20th century
A unique and compelling sense of structural style, a novel divided, telling a story from fourteen different parts—fourteen different days, about author Mitch Albom’s real life in the mid 1990s Massachusetts, while he worked as a proficient sports columnist. It follows Albom contacting his former sociology professor, Morrie Schwartz after hearing about his diagnosis and medical health death sentence with a rare condition of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. Albom did not just come to wish a farewell to his most beloved teacher he had in his education life forever, but rather not a goodbye or farewell, but a “hello” internal page opener to eye opening values and morals, that would stick with the young adult Albom for the rest of his life. Albom shares Schwartz’s unfeigned thoughts, and not only his important hardship and reflections, but shares his impactful story that uplifted readers, uplifted me, just like it also instantaneously did with him.
As a younger person, who still has many outlooks and ideas of what the rest of the world would look like, this novel took a tarnished key and unlocked something in my heart that I candidly never knew subsisted and prevailed within me. To be frankly honest and straightforward, highschooler’s who think they know everything about the world, even if they are ethically smart or seem to “know-it-all,” will really question their moral goals and their outlook on living after thoroughly reading this moving story—a real, authentic, moving story. This general story is perfect for summer reading if you actually want to feel something, feel emotions, and read something valuable, rather than just reading a book to anxiously get it over with. I would exceedingly recommend reading this novel during the summer or even change your honest perspective (in a positive way) by reading this book now!
