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Tuesdays with Morrie
Chapitres IX – The second Tuesday : We talk about feeling sorry for yourself
Mitch’s newspaper is still on strike and the situation is now really insane. He comes back at Morrie for the second time and they talk about life, love and compassion. Morrie’s illness progresses and now he is spending most of his time in his study. But he does not feel sorry for himself, he just cries sometimes when he needs it. It is impressive because most of people spend to much time in self-pity.
Mitch lifts Morrie from his wheelchair to his special couch and he feels very moved, as if he “felt the seeds of death inside his shriveling frame”. So he suddenly realizes that Morrie is really going to die in a short while and he wants to do something.
A Morrie’s course : everybody has to let himself falling backward, relying on another student to catch him. It seems to be an unconfortable exercise “... if you are ever going to have other people trust you, you must feel that you can trust them too [...] Even when you’re falling.”
Chapitre X – The third Tuesday : We talk about regrets
Mitch comes back next tuesday, and he brings a voice recorder with him, because he wants to have a trace from his old professor : he wants to record his story. Mitch asks himself about what he would do if he was in the same situation than Morrie, what he would regret in his life.
So he decides he will ask some precise questions (death, fear, aging, greed, marriage, family, society, forgiveness, a meaningful life) to Morrie, and try to learn the most of things possible. He thinks that his old professor has got an important clarity of thought. Even if he is going to die, he has got a better and more sensistive point of view that anyone else.
Morrie suggests Mitch to do an honors thesis about “how football in America has become ritualistic”. He did a 112 pages document, and Morrie congratulates him. Now Mitch is a bit scared of leaving school.
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