Thursday, December 6, 2007

Tuesdays With Morrie pg:1-40

So far Mitch has run into his old professor because he found out that he was dying and since he promised that he would visit him he found out where he lives. After he found out that he was dying he also found out that his old professor is also teaching a class on life and death. This class is all based life experiences of his professor. Mitch decides to take these classes with Morrie (his old professor). Mitch found out how Morrie was going to die and this troubled him because he did not want to believe this about his dear professor. This class does not really have graded test but instead requires you to ask questions and bring up topics that relate to life and Morrie will answer them to the best of his ability. Mitch does not like to see Morrie like this because now Morrie can not do the things that he once loved to do... such as dance, he also cant do everyday things by himself such as bathe, walk, or even dry himself off after getting washed up. But yet Morrie doesn't complain about this, he just reassures Mitch that he has had a good life and death is not anything to be afraid of. So Micth helps him by going to the bookstore for him and things like that. I left off at where Morrie was explaining the theory of tensions of opposites... this is like a pull of rubber bands and how most people live in the middle of this. I'm guessing that this means that no matter what you do something is always going go to contradict it.

1 comment:

Joel said...

Mike, remember, don't sum up the plot. Maybe for your next response you can explore Morrie's theory on tensions and opposites, or another of his many theories.

I'm a bit confused about your summary of the beginning. Morrie sits down with Mitch years after college, right? It is only then that he finds out his professor has a debilitating disease?