This document provides biographical information about Mitch Albom, an American journalist and author, as well as summaries of his book Tuesdays with Morrie. The book details Albom reconnecting with his former professor Morrie Schwartz after seeing him interviewed on television. Each Tuesday, Albom would visit Schwartz as he was dying of ALS to learn life lessons from him. Key themes of the book are appreciating life, relationships, and love over materialism and career.

2.  Journalist and sportswriter for the last 23 years, most
withThe Detroit Free Press
 Received a bachelor of arts degree in sociology from
Brandeis University in 1979 and a master’s degree in
journalism and business from Columbia University in
1982.
 Before moving to Columbia, he was a performing
musician for a few years, playing in the U.S. and Europe.
 Since receiving his master’s degrees he has been a
professional journalist and also has a Radio ShowWJR
Radio.
Born: 1958 in Passaic, NJ

3.  His books, Tuesdays with Morrie, The Five
PeopleYou Meet in Heaven, For One More Day,
and Have a Little Faith are all highly
successful.

4.  Mitch
Mitch is a middle-aged man who is a
sports writer. Mitch is very involved
in his job, which includes money, a
lot of traveling, and just basically
centering yourself around your job.
Mitch saw Morrie on aTV special
and went back to visit that favorite
professor he never kept in touch
with.They have a class onTuesdays,
and the story tells about them.

5.  Morrie
Morrie was Mitch’s college
professor. He used to live a life
full of dancing, helping others,
and spending time with his loved
ones. After he was diagnosed
with ALS. Morrie stopped being
able to do these enjoyable things
he loved. He accepted the fact he
was dying, and lived a life of
helping others….

6.  The main plot of this story revolves around
how Mitch Albom is trying to overcome his
materialistic life. Mitch is increasingly
unhappy as his occupation as a journalist and
sees Morrie featured on “Nightline” one night
as he is watching television.Thus started the
two men's’ collaboration onTuesdays with
Morrie during Schwartz's final days in 1995.

7. “The most important
thing in life is to
learn how to give
out love, and to let
it come in.”
“Love is the
only rational
act.”

8. “How useful it
would be to put a
daily limit on self
pity.”

9. “The culture doesn’t allow you
to think until you’re about to
die.We ‘re so wrapped up
with egotistical things,
career, family, having enough
money just to keep going. So
we don’t get the habit of
standing back and looking at
our lives and saying: Is this
all? Is this what I want?”

10. “ Most of us all walk
around as if we’re
sleepwalking.We really
don’t experience the world
fully, because we’re half
sleep, doing things we
automatically think we
have to do.”
“Learn how to die, and you
learn how to live.”

11. “ Family is not just love, but
letting others know there’s
someone who is watching
out for them.What I call “
spiritual security”.
Knowing that your family
will be there watching out
for you Nothing else will
give you that. Not money.
Not fame.”

12. “ By throwing yourself into
these emotions, by allowing
yourself to dive, in all the
way, you can experience
them fully and completely.
Then you can say “ I
recognize that emotion,
now I need to detach from
that emotion for a
moment.”

13. “ It’s impossible for the old to
envy the young. But the
issue is to accept who you
are and revel in that.You
have to find what is good
and true and beautiful in
your life as it is now. I had
my time to be in the
thirties, and now is time to
be seventy-eight.”

14. “Money it’s not a
substitute for tenderness,
and power is not a
substitute tenderness.
Neither money nor power
will give you the feeling
you’re looking for, no how
much of them you have.”

15. “The most important
thing in life is to learn
how to give out love,
and to let it come in.”
“ Sounds like a song
lyrics…love is how
you stay alive.”

16. “I’ve learned this
much about
marriage…you get
tested.You find
who you are, who
the other person is,
and how you
accommodate or
not.”

17. “Every society has its
own problems, the
way to do it , I think ,
isn’t to run away.You
have to work at
creating your own
culture.”

18. “Forgive yourself
before you die.Then
forgive others.”

19. “Love is when you are
as concerned about
someone else’s
situation as you are
about your own.”
“ Death ends a life, not a
relationship”

20. “You… are a
good soul”

21. The conclusion to the conflict is that Mitch
overcomes his materialistic life. Morrie taught him
a lot of things, one of which just to love life. Mitch
now appreciates things, and takes the time to be
with others. He tries to correct some of the things
he did in his life, or didn’t do.
But if Morrie Schwartz taught me anything at
all, it was this: there is no such thing as “too
late” in life.”