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Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom: Emotions - Coggle Diagram
Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom: Emotions
How do different non-fiction genres shape our understanding of grief through perspective, bias, and selective storytelling?
"There is a tribe in the North American Arctic, who believe that all things on earth have a soul that exists in a miniature form of the body that holds it. and a man has a tiny man inside him. When the being dies, that tiny form lives on." (Albom 114)
This passage is powerful because it shows how different cultures experience grief. In the states people will have a funeral and remember them for a few hours, but after a few months most will forget them. In this culture, they associate the person with something around them like a tree or the dirt so that they are never forgotten.
¨Morrie was called to identify the body. He flew to New York and went to the morgue. He was taken to the cold room where the corpses were kept. Is this your father, the attendant asked. Morrie looked at the body behind the glass, the body of the man who had scolded him and molded him and wanted him to speak, who had told Morrie to swallow his memories of his mother when he wanted to share them with the world. He nodded and walked away. the horror of the room sucked all other functions out of him. he did not cry till days later.¨ (Albom 139)
This passage is grief filled and it tells us how people deal with grief. For some people they might break down crying right then and there, but for Morrie, it took days for him to grieve the death of his father. I think that this is because he didn' think as fondly of his father as some do.
What techniques do authors use to make factual information about happiness compelling?
"Most people are more unhappy then me, even in my current condition. I may be dying, but I'm surrounded by loving caring souls. How many people can say that."Albom 36
The author uses the fact that Morrie is dying to inflate the fact that he is still happy. Morrie is telling people that he is happy because of their pressence and how they love him.
"with each visit, Morrie seemed to be melting into his chair, his spine taking on its shape. Still every morning he insisted on being lifted from his bed and wheeled to his study. "I sum it up in my new aphorism, when you're in bed, your dead. Only Morrie could smile at something like that" Albom 131
The author uses the fact that Morrie should be grieving to crack a joke. The author is making a point with this by showing that feelings are a state of mind. Morrie chooses to be happy instead of sad to make other people happy, when a lot of people would just sit in their house and feel sad for themselves that they are dying instead of living in the moment.
How does non-fiction help us develop empathy and awareness of others’ experiences with self pity?
¨You never hear people say, i wish i were sixtyfive. He smiled. You know what that reflects? unsatisfied life. because if you've found meaning in your life you don't want to go back.¨ ( Albom 118)
This passage shows self pity in the world because it says, in a way, that people don't want to be old and pity themselves when they age. Morrie says that he thinks that people should embrace the fact that when they age that they will gain wisdom and knowledge instead of being able to do less because your body will start to break down when you reach that age.
"Most people are more unhappy then me, even in my current condition. I may be dying, but I'm surrounded by loving caring souls. How many people can say that."Albom 36
I used this passage again because it shows self pity. Morrie decides not to pity himself because he realizes that if he does that he wont experience the rest of his life well. The most people he is talking about pity themselves if they don't have things that are almost unattainable and take all the things they do have for granted, like life.
In what ways can reading non-fiction inspire change or action in love
"The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and let it come in. Let it come in. we think we don't deserve love, we think if we let it in well become too soft. But a wise man said love is the only rational act." Albom 52
This passage teaches change in love by having a source in a book. This passage hit me hard and made me realize that a lot of people live life alone and don't allow people to get close to them. in my experience that is normally from addictions or from past experiences.
"Once you learn how to die, you learn how to live, so love life."Albom 82
This passage inspires a different kind of love. It tells you to love yourself and love how you live, and once you accomplish those feats you can learn how to live. this taught me to see life differently and to do things that I would not normally do.