Students can also examine Mitch's relationship with and attitude toward the media. Students can analyze how these scenes affect readers' perceptions of Mitch and Morrie and their relationship. Throughout the memoir, Albom intersperses flashbacks of his interactions with Schwartz in college. Since Tuesdays with Morrie deals with sensitive subject matter, it is important for students to maintain an open and respectful dialogue while discussing topics ranging from cultural attitudes toward death and dying to the abstractness of the soul and possible reincarnation. A background lesson on existentialism will facilitate class discussions on the value of accepting the inevitability of death. Albom writes of his friend and mentor's confidence and grace in facing the end of life in a way that is easy to grasp and not melodramatic. Chronicling fourteen Tuesdays spent between a dying professor, Morrie Schwartz, and his former student, Mitch Albom, the book approaches the idea of death with a philosophical acceptance and understanding that is somewhat akin to existentialism. Tuesdays with Morrie is a heartwarming memoir that students and teachers alike will follow with rapt attention.
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