Tuesdays With Morrie (pgs 99-138), Week 4, Post B

In this post, I will analyze the protagonist, Mitch Albom. One characteristic of Mitch is that he is afraid of death. I think the main reason for his visiting Morrie every week on Tuesday (besides seeing his old professor) is that he wants to know what death is like. He really wants to know how to deal with it, and learn from someone who is actually going through it when he visits him. I believe that once Morrie dies, Mitch will finally know how he should live the rest of his life. He will know just how to treat people when he’s dying, and he’ll know what he should do to make it not seem so bad. A second characteristic of Mitch is his materialistic beliefs. He is a sports journalist who interviews athletes that really have it all. They are rich, handsome, athletic, and have the bset things. Everyone wants to be a professional athlete. They have it all. So whenever Mitch interviewed them, he felt like the things these athletes had were the most important things to have in life. This made him always want the best car, the biggest house, the most money, when in reality, it would make him no more impressive to anyone else in his life. The athletes he interviewed would think no differently of him, and people with not quite as much money as him wouldn’t look up at him as a role model, they would think he was a rich, stuck-up person who cares about nothing else but materialistic things. So when Mitch discussed these ideas with Morrie, Morrie told him that the material things in life are not important. The only thing that’s important is how you loved someone, what you did in your lifetime that helped others, and what you did to change the world in a good way.
I completely agree with Morrie on this. I try not to focus on the material things in life. More focus on what I’m doing and how I could be helping others have a better life. How I’m positively changing the world.