Significance
Perspective
Evidence
Connection
Supposition
Significance
This book is an important book because it teaches a few major life lessons. It teaches throughout the book that nobody is or needs to be perfect. Or a more familiar way of saying that is "Beauty is in the eye of the beholder." Because of all the lessons in this story, there is a lot of advice in here for anybody who is willing to read the book and have an open mind about what the story is trying to tell them. The theme that the author chose to write about is that you can always teach a dog new tricks. In other words, just because you have been living a certain way for your whole life, you can always learn and adjust to a new way of living. It wasn't my choice to read this book, my dad made me read it. His goal was for the book to make me cry, and he succeeded because at the end of the book I was practically sobbing it was ridiculous.
Perspective
This book was written by Mitch Albom, but it is hard to say what perspective he was coming from. This is because it is a completely true story from his youth, and he wrote it by listening to the tape recordings he had from recording every Tuesday's conversation with Morrie. I would have also written it in this format, because it would make the whole story true, and it would be more meaningful because it was all true. If I had to explain this book to a third grader, I would say; "This book is a true story about an old man and one of his old students, who get together every Tuesday to talk about life."
Evidence
Morrie had been trying to make an argument throughout the whole story; to live life- not be afraid of it. There has been plenty of proof of this in the book. For example; Each chapter has been a different life lesson, like "family," "emotions,"
"The Fear of Aging," "Love," "Money," "Culture," "Forgiveness," "Marriage," and "The Perfect Day." In all of these chapters Morrie and Mitch talk about things that matter to them. They also talked about the influence of the media and the way it is brainwashing people. I completely agree with what Morrie was trying to say because I agree with him about most of the things that they talked about.
Connection
This book does not apply to me because I have never had an experience like this before because I have never known anybody like Morrie before. My opinion probably will not effect other people, but one way it may effect others is that they will read this blog entry and be inspired to read the book. Just like when you go to rent a movie, you don't buy it without reading reviews and ratings on line first. Or maybe if somebody already read the book they might agree with my opinion or disagree with it.This book inspired me to read more of Mitch Albom's books, and to try reading more books in this same genre.
Supposition
I predict that if there was going to be a sequal to this story, it would be about Mitch's life, and him teaching his children and grand-children what Morrie taught him. Or maybe it would be about Mitch turning his whole experience into a book. If this took place in a different time frame, things would change a lot. For example; they wouldn't be meeting at an aprtment, they would be meeting at a small hut if it was hundreds of years ago. Also, Morrie probably would have died more painfully, and faster because there wouldn't have been any medicin for him to take.
