Mitch Albom's Tuesdays With Morrie
In Mitch Albom’s memoir Tuesdays With Morrie, Albom reconnects his close relationship with his college professor, Morrie Schwartz. Albom’s feelings towards Morrie changes suddenly as the story progresses; he goes from feeling uncomfortable to familiar with Morrie. The reader is shown the changes in Albom by seeing the changes in the relationship between the two. The story starts when Albom recounts his college graduation where he exchanged a tearful goodbye between him and his philosophy professor. Their close relationship is shown when Albom gives Morrie a gift and promises to stay in touch. He finds Morrie, his professor, through a nighttime interview sixteen years later and finds out that Morrie is dying from ALS. Overcome with guilt and
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