- - - Explain what Morrie is teaching Mitch, and ultimately his audience, about emotions. Use details from text to support your assertions.
- - - Explain the significance of the first scene in The Sixth Tuesday, and what this scene suggests about Mitch. Support your response.
- - - How does The Professor, Part Two develop Morrie as a character in the memoir?
Morrie is teaching Mitch and and his audience that it is okay to show emotions such as sadness. For example, there is a moment in the story when Morrie reads an article in the newspaper about people, across the world, facing hardships. This article causes Morrie to begin to cry. He is sad for people across the world, he is visibly crying. Another thing Morrie is teaching Mitch and his audience is to love. Morrie believes that everyone should love everything, no matter what happens. Morrie is having such a hard life-he can hardly move his body, has no ability to do anything by himself, and knows he is going to die soon, however, Morrie learns to love the small things in his life and manages to stay positive throughout this hard time. For example, Morrie is unable to clean his own bottom, but he says that he will try to enjoy it because it will be like he is a baby again. The thought of someone else wiping your bottom is not one that most enjoy, however, Morrie tries to embrace it rather than dread it.
ReplyDeleteThe first scene of "The Sixth Tuesday" is Mitch going to Morrie's house and being welcomed into the home by Morrie's wife, which is a rare occasion. This scene is significant because Mitch finds out that Morrie can't eat the food he constantly keeps bringing him. Morrie keeps accepting it, though, because he feels bad not accepting it. Mitch feels like he should be bringing something to be kind. This shows that Mitch feels like he needs to bring something for Mitch because he most likely feels like Morrie is doing him a favor by allowing him to visit ever Tuesday.
"The Professor, Part Two" shows that Morrie can get along with almost anyone. He is a very social person that everyone seems to like, and he always sees the good side of everyone.
Morrie is teaching Mitch and his audience that we should "turn on the faucet" and pour and cleanse ourselves with emotions. Don't be afraid to cry, laugh, be funny, or tell someone you love them. Your emotions can't and won't hurt you the will only help you. You have to accept your emotions and let them come out.
ReplyDeleteThe significance of the first scene in "The Sixth Tuesday" is to show Mitch's new found character and the progression of Morrie's disease. Mitch now is more in touch with his emotions and isn't about work any more but about life. Going back to his college days and bringing and having food with Morrie. Also to show Mitch how his friend is doing. Morrie can no longer much, if any, solid food any more and has to go to more of a liquid diet.
It shows that Morrie is peaceful and shows that Morrie is so in touch with his emotions that he knows why people do what they do. How Morrie go the protester in the chemistry hall to stop and how he sticks together with his students. Making him one of the best teachers a student has ever had.
What Morrie is trying to teach Mitch and his audience about emotions is when you detatch from your emotions, you should not ignore them. Instead, you should immerse yourself with it. What he really means is, for example, whenever your chest seizes up and you know that you can die at any given moment, rather than panicking you should accept it.
ReplyDeleteThe significance of the first scene of the Sixth Tuesday is how Morrie shows his kindness with Mitch. He does this by not telling Mitch that he cannot eat the food that he has been bringing over because of his health. He does this with courtesy not to hurt Mitch's feelings. When Charlotte tells Mitch about Morrie's conditions, he replies saying that he just wants to help in some way. This suggests to us that the characteristics of Morrie are starting to rub off on Mitch. He is becoming a better person with his actions.
After reading The Professor Part Two, we learn more about Morrie when he got his first job after getting his Ph.D. It helps develop Morrie as a character because it shows his friendliness to the people that surround him. He makes friends with a mean and stubborn women, Also, he stopped a potential tradgedy at a Brandies University just by talking to a student and recieving the demands. Each of these actions goes to show how Morrie is as a person.
Morrie is teaching Mitch that you shouldn't feel afraid of showing your emotins because nobody knows what your feeling but you. Evidence from the text is when the two men are talking about emotions and Moriie says that he is not afraid to show his emotions because if he doesn't how will everyone know what he is felling. It shows that Mitch pays attention to the things around him and realizes that Morrie is a normal person and does a great job on describing the family and their house. Evidence from the text is how he describes the scene when he walked up to the house and when Morrie's wife answered the door. Morrie is developed in the professor by the way he is described and the way that he treats people and how he looks at life.
ReplyDeleteUltimately, Morrie is trying to say that you shouldn't have to hold back your emotions; express them, and learn how to cope with them. Morrie specifically says to "Detach yourself from them (your emotions).". Going back to my original point, I'll compare it to what Morrie says about loneliness. I say that he means to experience it, "you let go, let the tears flow, feel it completely -- but eventually be able to say." He also means that you have to cope with them though, "All right, that was my moment with loneliness. I'm not afraid of feeling lonely,but now I'm going to put that loneliness aside and know that there are other emotions in the world, and I'm going to experience them as well.". The first scene of The Sixth Tuesday is Mitch bringing food, and Morrie's wife, Charlotte, admitting that Morrie can't and hasn't ate any of the food. Mitch then says, "I just wanted to help in some way.", which proves that Mitch is finally becoming a caring person like he was in college.
ReplyDeleteThe Professor part 2 helps develop Morrie as a character. In the section, it talks about how Morrie tried to help his students, particularly in the sixties during the Vietnam War. This section shows that Morrie is fair. The students at Brandeis were rebelling against the administration. Morrie listened to both sides, but took no part in either one. He received a list of what the students wanted, and turned it in to administration so the standoff would end. The reader can also assume that Albom will use this situation to connect to his situation back home in Detroit.
Throughout the story Morrie teaches Mitch about emotions. He does this by showing examples of how specific people have reacted to different things. By doing this he is showing that people all want to feel that they are cared for. There is much importance of the first scene in the sixth Tuesday. This scene suggests that Mitch might have been focused on work, but when it comes to his professor he has a soft side. I think this, because he is caring about Morrie and only wants him to feel cared for and wants to be with him for his last days on Earth. In the professor part two it develops Morrie's character as being caring for other people. It shows this because even though he is watching how mentally people live and go through their days, he still finds time to make friends with them and make jokes, and just make their lives easier.
ReplyDeleteMorrie is trying to teach Mitch to feel his emotions instead of pushing them away or concealing them. Morrie explains that he is "detaching" himself from his experiences. He tell Mitch that he accomplishes detachment by completely feeling an emotion and then letting it go. He explains that once you fully experience an emotion, and let it wash over you, you can move on and say "I have experienced that, and now I can move on." By saying this, he is teaching Mitch how to move on and not dwell on, or regret, experiences so that you can move forward in life.
ReplyDeleteThe scene in the beginning of "The Sixth Tuesday" shows Mitch's development of feelings towards Morrie. In the beginning of the book, it appeared as if Mitch felt nothing when he saw his old professor, but this scene shows how that has changed. When he learns that Morrie cannot eat any of the food Mitch is bringing to him, he grows upset and worried for Morrie. This shows Mitch's character development, and it shows the reader that he truly loves Morrie.
"The Professor, Part Two" helps the reader to further understand Morrie by showing another aspect of his life that had yet to be revealed. The descriptions of Morrie's experiences in the hospital show his compassionate nature and how well he gets along with people. These scenes help the reader to see another side of Morrie and develop new opinions on him. The scenes of Morrie at Brandeis University also help develop Morrie's character. They show Morrie's understanding of people, which helps the reader understand Morrie's lessons in more depth.
Morrie is teaching Mitch and the audience that they should feel emotions fully. He wants them to not put off emotions but experience them. Be angry, sad, and happy when you want to. Morrie feels that if a person experiences the emotion when it comes then the person will be able to realize when it leaves. By doing this it is easier to realize the emotions a person feels are temporary. No one person feels an emotion all the time. In the chapter, Morrie tells Mitch to fully feel all his emotions. Morrie feels if emotions aren't felt they can hold you back. He says this in the chapter. He tells Mitch to feel an emotion then release it and feel another.
ReplyDeleteIn this scene, Mitch is greeted by Charlotte. He learns Morrie is unable to eat the food he brings. The scene suggests that Mitch is oblivious to some things regarding Morrie. Mitch doesn't realize Morrie can no longer eat solid foods. Mitch brings the food because he wants to give Morrie something. He is oblivious to the fact that he gives Morrie something everytime he visits. Mitch gives Morrie a reason to try and hang on a little longer. Morrie has to finish teaching Mitch life's lessons. Although Mitch can be oblivious, he is also perceptive. He realizes Charlotte is tired. Mitch is able to deduce this by her actions and the state of her home. He realizes the chaos must be overwhelming and that she may wish it was just her and Morrie.
In The Professor, Part Two the audience learns even more about Morrie and where is character as a person comes from. Albom describes a man who can connect to the unconnected. Morris becomes friends with people who are considered a lost cause. He connects to protestors and diffuses a volatile situation. Morrie becomes friends with mental patients. These patients were seen as unteachable. Albom describes a man who can learn lessons from life. Morrie learned that money doesn't bring happiness while at the mental hospital. He learned that teaching on a personal level can leave a longer mark on a person's life. His past students continue to reach out to him. Morrie learned respect is something that should be earned. His students respected him because he respected them. He earned their respect through his actions. Albom describes a compassionate man. Morrie tries to understand and relate to the patients at the hospital. He gives A's to his students so they won't be drafted. Morrie is a remarkable man of wisdom crafted by experience.
Question 1: Morrie is teaching Mitch how to get over emotions. Morrie, through his philosophy of life, does not believe in clinging to the negative and just living life to the fullest. In this lesson, Morrie is not teaching Mitch any of his philosophies, he is teaching Mitch how to incorporate them into his life. He tells Mitch that it is healthy to express emotion, but not for too long or it will overpower daily life. He shows Mitch how to properly get over emotions while still experiencing them. Morrie believes that emotions are a normal part in human life, but can easily take over life and haunt the feeler if not dealt with correctly. Morrie loves Mitch and other people, so he wants to help them achieve a happier life by giving them these tips.
ReplyDeleteQuestion 2: The first scene in The Sixth Tuesday is very important. This passage helps introduce the readers for the first time how terribly Morrie is living and that Mitch is Morrie's reason to continue living. They see how much Morrie loves Mitch because he has been keeping how terrible the disease is from Mitch. Charlotte tells Mitch directly that Morrie loves the lessons because it gives him purpose. She is indirectly telling Mitch that he is the reason Morrie wants to keep living. This is very powerful. The readers can also analyze Mitch from this scene. This scene shows the readers how oblivious Mitch is to Morrie's quickly deteriorating health. Yes, Mitch knows that his professor is dying, but he does not know how fast because Morrie is trying to hide it. Morrie has told Mitch many times that he will die and how, but the readers can see that Mitch does not realize how fast. This is very important because readers can see that Morrie treats Mitch like his child. He doesn't want Mitch to know how bad things are. Knowing Morrie's view on him, now, Mitch may start to treat him differently because Mitch knows how bad Morrie has gotten and how he views him. This realization by Mitch may change the book.
Question 3: This chapter reveals major characteristics of Morrie that help the readers understand his perspective on life. The book states that Morrie used to work at a mental hospital. There he befriended the patients and learned valuable lessons from them. There he learned the money does not equal happiness and that human compassion is necessary for a successful life. These lessons he learned and where he learned them help shape him into the character he is currently. It helps establish him as an observant, friendly man. The readers also observe Morrie when he first taught at Brandies. A student rebellion occurs and Morrie is the negotiator that brings peace to the school. Through this specific event, readers learn that Morrie is a peacemaker and a likeable man. These characteristics that the readers learn through this chapter change their view on Morrie and help them analyze his teaching with more accuracy because they now know how Morrie generally thinks.
ReplyDeleteHe is teach by being an example. The way he loves the world around him, resolves his regret, limits his self pitty, cherishes his family, says whatever he can, and accepts his death without fear or embarrassment teaches Mitch and the audience how wonderful it can make their lives if they do the same. Even as he is dying Morrie still loves his life because he is constantly doing all those things.
The significance of this scene is to show how little of Morrie's condition Mitch actually understood. Mitch was not trying to make Morrie feel bad by bringing him food that he couldn't eat, he didn't know Morrie couldn't have any of since he never said anything. Mitch feels ashamed when he sees all the extra food packed in the fridge and thinks he has failed to bring Morrie something, but Charlotte re assures him that he does bring something. He brings himself, companionship, and wonderful conversations when he visits his old friend.
This chapter adds more to Morrie's past. These are a few of his first amazingly impactful experiences with other people for both him and the other person. Morrie learn so much from those experiences; how to acknowledge people's existence, respect others, and make peace.
Morrie teaches Mitch to fully feel but not to dwell on them so much that he becomes too obsessed or hindered by a particular emotion. On emotions, Morrie says, "...you let it penetrate you fully. That's how you are able to leave it." Additionally, Morrie quotes a Buddhist concept by stating, "Don't cling to things, because everything is impermanent." By feeling it fully, he is not wasting time being afraid of it or not recognizing his emotions; rather, he is acknowledging it so that he can let it go, an important lesson in moving on.
ReplyDeleteThe first scene illustrates the human inclination to not speak up, or lie, for the sake of others' feelings. Morrie does not say anything to Mitch about the food that he brings, even though he cannot eat anything but soft foods because "he doesn't want to hurt [Mitch's] feelings." Also, Charlotte, though the frequent visitors take time away that she could be spending with Morrie,"handled it with patience." This scene suggests that Mitch is still attached to materialism, because he views food as a valuable contribution and the conversation as not giving anything. Charlotte has to tell him that "You are bringing him something. He looks forward to your visits... I think it's giving him a good sense of purpose."
By showing Morrie in mental hospital and college settings, the author develops his character as tenacious and perceptive. One of the patients would lay on the floor the whole day, but Morrie is able to encourage her to sit up, move around, and befriend him. He is unflinching in his efforts to help her, and recognizes that she just wants someone to notice her. Morrie works hard to find the roots of conflicts there, and is observant in doing so, learning several important lessons he takes with him his entire life. Also, when he becomes a professor, he supports the antiwar effort by giving all of his students A's so that they will not be drafted into the army, an example of his tenacity, his perceptiveness, and his ability to clearly see a solution.
Morrie is trying to teach Mitch and all of us that detachment is an important part of not only death but daily life. He tells Mitch that you need to be aware of your emotions and then recognize them and be able to detach from that fear. For example, if you are experiencing fear then instead of continuing to worry, realize that it is fear and be able to accept it and the fear will go away.
ReplyDeleteThe first scene in "The Sixth Tuesday", shows that Mitch doesn't quite understand the effect of what he is doing for Morrie. For example, Mitch sees that all the food he has given Morrie has gone to waste for some time now. He then says that he feels bad because he feels like now he isn't contributing at all towards Morrie. This shows that he thinks the food is the only thing that he is bringing Morrie. In reality, Mitch is bringing Morrie a greater gift of friendship. He is also allowing Morrie to do something that he loves so much which is to teach.
"The Professor, Part Two" shows us that Morrie had a unique and different way of impacting people. While in the mental hospital he made relationships with all of the people he met with. In his early years as a teacher he understood what the students wanted and he wanted to develop their personal self. He always made good piece with the students. When a group of students took over one of the school buildings, Morrie was trusted to reason with them and received their demands which he and the school principal met. He also was able to make a long lasting impression with his college students. Albom let us know that a lot of Morrie's old students visited and wrote when they became aware of his illness.
Morrie is teaching that if you feel passionately about some type of emotion, whether it be happy, sad, mad, etc., if you let it consume you, you can also make the feeling go away for a short time. In the text, Morrie explains that you are able to detach yourself for a short while from reality. He explains that if you allow the emotion you are feeling consume you, you can take it away and escape from reality. However, I do not think this is true. I think that if you allow an emotion to take you over, you cannot escape it. That specific emotion is all you will feel, and you will not be able to escape it until you overcome it.
ReplyDeleteThis scene suggests that he still thinks that material items are what make people happy. He does try to be helpful for Morrie and make his day, however he tries to accomplish this through materials. Morrie has mentioned that Mitch focusses too much on the material aspects of life and not what truly matters. Morrie doesn't need the food that Mitch brings him. Morrie is joyous by Mitch's presence alone-- just the fact that Mitch wants to be there with him makes him happy, and Mitch is still blind to this fact.
Morrie is proven to not only care about his family and friends but also about complete strangers. While Morrie is working in the mental hospital, he takes interest in many patients, even though it is against the rules. He is one of the only people that can communicate with them and bring them slightly out of their shell. Morrie cares enough to dig deep to the core of why they are having the problems that they have, and he tries to help them however he can. This shows how he is a caring person, who cares about the well being of society.
Morrie is teaching Mitch that sometimrs hiding your emotions is okay. He is teaching that if you ignore the emotions you have they will go away. This scene suggests that Mitch is becoming more and more compassionate. He brings Morrie bad of food every day, even though he is unaware Morrie can not eat the food anymore. It shows that Mitch knows Morrie is having a bad day but he still wants to go visit and cheer him up none the less, spending as much time with Morrie as he can get. This chapter
ReplyDeleteshows how compassionate Morrie really is. Morrie is always trying to defuse issues. It shows that Morrie is a people pleaser and when he pleases people that makes him happy.
1. In the sixth Tuesday Morrie and Mitch talk about emotions. Morrie is teaching Mitch to detach from his emissions. Morrie says, "don't cling to things, because everything is in impermanent." He means to not get too attached to emotions because they can always change. Maury says, "let it penetrate you fully that's how you're able to leave it behind". His main point about emotions is to get ready to leave them behind (like he has to) because they can change quickly.
ReplyDelete2. To summarize the first scene in the six Tuesday is that Morrie is losing strength and time. His wife shows Mitch all of the uneaten food in the refrigerator. This shows how the little strength it takes to eat is not there anymore. This is almost like a different side of Mitch that we haven't seen. He is really caring for Morrie and is concerned about him not eating any of the food he brought him. Mitch says," it wouldn't of hurt my feelings I just wanted to help him in some type of way". This is showing that Mitch is trying to do as much as possible to keep Morrie alive for longer.
3. This develops Morries character because we see a different side of the job he's to work at. He used to work at Chestnut lodge at a mental hospital just outside of Washington DC. Morrie was a researcher. He observed the people in the mental hospital and noticed a few things. A girl would just walk outside the door and lay facedown on the tile. She was not looking for anything but attention. He noticed such a lack of compassion from the workers to the people. Morrie would disregard the status quo and talk to these people.
Without learning about compassion from his experience in the mental home, Morrie would likely not have been the caring professor that Albom knows so well.
Morrie is teaching Mitch to not hide his emotions. You need to fully experience your emotions so you learn how to deal with them. Morrie told Mitch to detach himself from his emotions so he knows how to deal with them so he is not overwhelmed with the emotion when it happens again.
ReplyDeleteThe significance of the first scene is to show Morrie's condition. The wife normally is not home, yet she was home with Morrie because his disease is getting worse and worse and time slowly progresses. Mitch brought Morrie the usual food he brings when he comes over, but Morrie's wife told him he has not even eaten the food he bought him before. That made it easier to tell that Morrie was getting really sick now.
In the Professor, Morrie's character shows through once again as being a loving and kind human being. He had the gift of helping the people in the mental hospital and could get through to them unlike most people. After he moved on from the mental hospital, he went to Brandeis and worked with kids that had the title "radical." He had a way with them to make good peace. The students that they had all loved Morrie and all he had done for them. They wrote him, and drove hundreds of miles just to see him. They said they never had another teacher like Morrie. That shows that Morrie left a mark on people with his loving and tenderness. He always wanted to help because of how much he cared for people.
Morrie is teaching Mitch and his audience that emotions are okay to have. "Turn on the faucet. Wash yourself with the emotion. It won't hurt you. It will only help." Morrie believes being detached from emotions will only create fear. "You're too busy being afraid. You're afraid of the pain, your're afraid of the grief. You're afraid of the vulnerability that loving entails."
ReplyDeleteThe first scene represents how much Morrie loves Mitch. Charlotte says, "No, no, he'll be happy to see you," even though Mitch is "soaking up her precious minutes with Morrie". Mitch says he just wants to help Morrie and Charlotte replies, "You are bringing him something. He looks forward to your visits. . . I think it's giving him a good sense of purpose. . ." This continues to remind Mitch that money isn't the only answer to life's problems.
The Professor, Part Two develops Morrie even more as a compassionate, loving person. He was one of the few that developed a personal relationship with the people at the mental hospital. Morrie recognized that humans are "wanting to feel that they mattered" through out life. This chapter vividly illustrates another experience of Morrie and his many students.
1.) Morrie teaches Mitch about detaching from emotions. Morrie says once you have felt an emotion and experienced it you should let go of that feeling and move on. Morrie gives an exmaple of letting go when he coughs. When Morrie coughs he experiences fear, horror, and anxiety. But, once he feels these emotions that cross his brain he is able to say "okay,this is fear. step away from it, step away." and lets this emotion disappear and feels another emotion. Morries approach to this is the opposite to most peoples. When you feel like crying or telling someone you love them, do it just let it. But, once you have felt the emotion you cannot dwell on it.
ReplyDelete2.) In the SIxth Tuesday I think Mitch is noticing more about Morrie, and becoming more accepting to the things he does. Mitch arrives with food as usual to share with Morrie however, Morrie is only able to eat soft foods and liquids. Charlotte tells Mitch this and accepts it. Mitch would usually get offended by this in the beginning of the book but, he doesn't get offended now. Morries condition is rapidly decreasing and has health care workers at his home 24-7. Mitch notices the increasing amount of pill bottles on the counter and notices hsi violent cough. At one point Mitch gets up and helps him recover from his extreme cough.
3.)In the Professor Part Two Morrie is shown as a very caring person that can do almost anything and creates peace among people. Morrie took on many different jobs when he was younger. He was a researcher at a mental institution and later became a professor. When he was a professor he followed around patients pretty much all day. One women would get out of bed in the morning and then just lay on the tile flooring face down in the middle of the hallway. She never moved until they forced her to go to bed. One day Morrie befriended her, he would lay down next to her and even got her to sit up against the wall and even return back to her room. All the women wanted was a little bit of attention and to be noticed which is what he gave her. One year at Bradeis a group of black students claimed a campus hallway by dropping a banner down that stated "Malcom X University". This part of the campus held chemistry labs and faculty thought they were creating bombs. The of students versus university lasted for weeks. Until one day a student of Morrie called him over threw a window to talk. He returned to the universities president with a list of demands the protestors wanted. Morrie was quick to resolve the problem and create peace again among the university. Morrie is shown as a caring person and someone that can create peace among others no matte what.
Morrie is teaching his audience do not be afraid of emotions no matter what they are. As bad as you may feel at the moment everything is impermanent. Let your body over flow with every emotion you feel and let it consume you. You will then understand this emotion when it comes back and you know how to handle it. This takes away the horror of emotions and helps you accept them. This scene is significant because it shows how each character reacts to different challenges. Morrie's wife lets Mitch know whats going on without being blunt and rude. Mitch feels sad about this situation because he understand Morrie is a better guy than anyone even when he is sick. He took Mitch's feelings into consideration when Morrie should be the concern. Mitch feels sad because he sees more side effects of Lou Gehrig's disease affecting Morrie. Morrie is dying right in front of Mitch's eyes and he does not know how to react. This chapter shows how much the mental hospital affected Morrie. He was one of the only people who reached out to these lonesome people. He tried to make them all feel wanted and welcome. Nobody else made the lady who layed on the floor wanted but somehow Morrie did. Morrie could talk to people better than anyone else. His lively personality made everyone care for him more than he ever knew.
ReplyDeleteMorrie is teaching Mitch to detach himself from his emotions. Morrie tells Mitch not to get too attached with anything through emotion because it can easily change. Morrie says, "don't cling to things because everything is impermanent." Morrie is really trying to teach Mitch that he has to leave his emotion behind for Morrie, because he is going to be passing away soon. The first scene in "The Sixth Tuesday" is significant because Mitch is really shown as a sensitive character as he notices Morrie has not been eating the food that he brings him. Morrie is slowly becoming extremely weak and Mitch becomes susceptible. Mitch says, "I just wanted to help him in some type of way." This suggests that Mitch is realizing Morrie is slowly but surely losing time. Morrie is developed as a character in "The Professor, Part Two" as a genuine man with a big heart. Morrie's old job is described and a scene is set in the mental hospital. There were people who would try to get attention and all of the selfish workers would ignore them because they believed they just wanted attention. Morrie would talk to these people and it helped him become the caring person that he is today.
ReplyDeleteMorrie is teaching the idea of experiencing all emotions, because only once you experience emotions can you move past the sad parts of emotions. He wants his readers to not be afraid of what is happening, but to go head first and only after going head first can the person detach from the emotion and move on. "But detachment doesn't mean you don't let the experience penetrate you. On contrary, you let it penetrate you fully. That's how you are able to leave it."
ReplyDeleteThis first seen suggests Mitch's caring personality but also his helplessness. Mitch brings food for Morrie because he wants to somehow repay Morrie for his teachings hes being given, but then feels helpless knowing Morrie isn't eating and he doesn't have a way to repay him. " I just wanted to help in some way. I mean, i wanted to bring him something." Mitch expresses his helplessness towards Morrie not eating, and the thought of how sick Morrie is getting is starting to weigh on Mitch.
It developed Morrie to show his compassion for all people. Where most people would ignore and think low of mental patients, Morrie acted as if they were just like everyone else and saw that they had the same emotions. His actions at the mental hospital was the start of his wisdom for mankind, and how compassion was his number 1 quality.
Morrie is teaching Mitch to learn how to detach yourself from emotions. Morrie explains to Mitch that he should not let emotions control who he is because you have to live and not let go. He says that you can experience an emotion and then forget about it once it is over. He also says that he isn't going to let an emotion control him so he will let that certain emotion play its course and once it's over it's over, he will put it aside. Morrie states, "...there are other emotions in the world, and I'm going to experience them as well."
ReplyDeleteThe significance of the first scene is that Charlotte expresses to Mitch that Morrie will be happy to see him. Mitch says that he lifted up his bags from the market which shows he cares about Morrie and has been buying stuff for him because Morrie and his wife can't on their own.
This section of the story shows that Morrie is patient and caring. It shows that he is patient because he worked at the mental hospital and had to deal with crazy people all the time. It shows that he is caring because he took care of a poor girl that just wanted someone to notice her and Morrie took the time to notice her and make her feel better. In this section we also learn what type of person Morrie is. He was very well liked. Mitch says that old students drove to see him or write to him because everyone liked him as a professor.
Morrie is teaching Mitch and the audience that we have to detach ourselves from emotions. This means that instead of holding on to emotions, we have to let them go. Once we feel an emotion like love, pain, or fear, we cannot ignore it. Instead, Morrie believes that we should fully embrace this emotion, and learn to accept it. Only once we accept it will we be able to detach from it. Morrie realizes that he has to apply this to when he dies. He does not want to die in fear. He will have to accept the fear that he has when he is dying so that he is able to let go of it and die peacefully.
ReplyDeleteThe significance of the first scene in "The Sixth Tuesday" is that it suggests that Mitch might be forgetting how severe Morrie's disease actually is. He has been buying food every Tuesday that Morrie is incapable of eating. Mitch did not realize that he could now only eat soft foods and liquids. Mitch has been so caught up in Morrie's teachings, that he has forgotten that his disease is only getting worse.
"The Professor, Part Two" helps to develop Morrie as a character in the memoir by revealing more about his past. It shows that how in the 60s Morrie spent most of his time trying to create peace and teaching only valuable life lessons to his students. He was loved immensely by his students as well, and many of them still come back to visit him. Morrie's beliefs and actions have stayed the same. He still is a peaceful man and continues to teach lessons to his students. This shows that Morrie is loving, persistent, and a strong teacher.
Morrie is teaching Mitch to be able to detach himself from all the good and bad emotions in his life. Morrie taught Mitch "But by throwing yourself into these emotions, by allowing yourself to drive in, in all the way, over your head even, you experience them fully and completely. " Morrie is telling Mitch you know what love is and have experienced emotion now you can detach yourself.
ReplyDeleteEach week on Tuesday when Mitch visits Morrie, he brings him food. Mitch knew Morrie had a love for food. Even though he couldn't help, he wanted to something for Morrie to make it all a little bit easier.
It talks about Morrie working at a mental hospital and his job was too observe patients and observe their recoveries. It shows about Morries character that he goes the extra mile. One patient would come out of her room everday and lay on the for hours and would ignore everyone. Morrie would go lay on the ground with her each day. Until eventually he got her to sit up and even go back to her room, because all she wanted was for someone to notice her.
Morrie is teaching Mitch and ultimately his audience that when it comes to emotions do not hold back on them. If you hold back on your emotions, you will not be able to experience them to the fullest. Morrie says, “But by throwing yourself into these emotions, by allowing yourself to dive in, all the way, over your head even, you experience them fully and completely.” What Morrie means when he says this to Mitch and his audience is that allowing yourself to feel your emotions instead of blocking them allows you to fully understand and comprehend your emotions.
ReplyDeleteThe significance of the first scene of The Sixth Tuesday, is that is shows that Morrie’s condition is getting worse and that he is going to die soon. Morrie’s wife is home, which she typically is not there when Mitch is visiting Morrie, and Morrie has not been eating any of the food Mitch has brought for him and eating has become harder for him as well. Mitch also describes the violent coughing attacks that Morrie is getting, which is getting worse along with everything else.
Morrie is ultimately trying to teach his audience that in order to understand and feel all emotions you have to realize what your current emotions are so you can relate them, or no longer be afraid of them. In "The Sixth Tuesday," Morrie lets us know by throwing yourself into these emotions, by allowing yourself to dive in, all the way you can experience them fully and completely. This directly shows us that until you learn and experience one full emotion you can learn and understand many other emotions in comparison. Morrie is teaching Mitch to be more universal so that as he goes on in life he won't be scared and worried about his emotions he can embrace them. This lesson is important as without learning to detach you will not be able to handle your emotions or understand how and why they come.
ReplyDeleteI believe the significance of the first scene is to show the audience how the disease is slowly but actively affecting Morrie's body. It was used I believe to show you how he is in some ways suffering, however couldn't be more happier to have Mitch and his other visitors in his life. The text says Morrie couldn't tell Mitch that he couldn't eat the food, because he didn't want to hurt his feelings. This shows Morrie is still compassionate even with his disease and cares about others feelings. This scene suggests that Mitch is caring, unselfish, and is trying to treat Morrie with the upmost respect almost as he was his own family member. You can infer this, because he is shocked to see the filled refrigerator believing that he has been helping out when the food was really going to waste.
ReplyDeleteAs stated earlier in the text, Morrie embraces the expression of emotion. Morrie discusses his current situations. Morrie teaches Mitch to let emotions flow instead of letting them build up inside. He said by letting the emotions go, one can understand the emotion(Ex: fear, loneliness, happiness). If one can understand the emotion, they can "detach" themselves from it. In other words, you acknowledge that you have a certain emotion, but you don't fear having that emotion. He talks if you keep your emotions within that the emotion will consume your life and you will be afraid to live and will live in a state of fear and horror. In the text, Morrie talks about some of his most fearful moments. He stated that once he faced the emotion, he was able to acknowledge it and separate himself from the emotion.
ReplyDeleteFirstly, it shows the growing severity of Morrie's illness. As Morrie's ALS worsens, he is unable to eat more solid food. It also shows that Morrie feels as though he owes something to Morrie. He feels as though he is obligated to help because of how Mitch forgot him for the sixteen years after he left college. In the past, he talked about bringing the food to Morrie because he felt like he owed him. He was trying to prove that he was the same gift-giving person that he was in college. It also shows how little he knows of Morrie's disease. He felt ashamed because he brought food that he could not eat.
This shows more of the past of Morrie. This shows how Morrie gains experience through unique and life-changing experiences. He learns how to respect, make peace, and to show compassion for others.
Morrie is teaching Mitch and the audience that you can not hold on to your emotions because nothing is permanent. He says you must experience all emotions to know what they feel like and then detach from them. Morrie believes these emotions can lead to problems if you let them affect you for so long. Some people get in over their heads and fully enjoy every moment of their lives, that they end up comparing these situations and deeming them highs and lows.He explains emotions similarly to death; you know there will be good and bad times but shouldn't obsess over them.
ReplyDeleteAs Mitch is approaching the door to Morrie's house, he notices the small things such as the blue mountain laurels and bluestone steps. His actions show that he is absorbing the lessons that Morrie taught him about learning how to live. Mitch is learning to appreciate the small things in life and not get caught up in the things that don't matter as much after all. Mitch is finally realizing the significance of what Morrie is teaching him and using it in his daily life.
"The Professor, Part Two" develops Morrie as a character in the memoir by telling his view on society. Morrie believes that each individual should create their own culture rather than adhering to popular culture. He believes following popular culture damages the essentials of a community. He says when you begin to follow your own culture, you truly discover fulfillment in your life.
In "The Professor Part Two," we learn that Morrie used to be employed at a mental hospital. This had a major influence on the man he became later in life. He rejected most things like medicine, law, and business and just focused on his research. Morrie observed two different actions and emotions of the patients. He felt terribly sad and depressed for they were full of loneliness and misery. This experience help build up Morrie's character, because he learns about how different people react to different situations. Morrie also notices that most people will do things just so they will obtain attention. This immensely helps Morrie as he grows to become compassionate and learn to love other people.
ReplyDeleteMorrie is teaching Mitch that once you fully experience an emotion, you can recognize it and turn it off. In the novel, it says "I don't have to let it control me. I see it for what it is." This means that you'll be able to sense which emotion is consuming you, and you can detach from it. Morrie tells Mitch that he can do this with any emotion; fear, loneliness, love. Morrie doesn't say that you won't feel the emotion anymore, just that you can detach yourself from it for a little while.
ReplyDeleteIn The Sixth Tuesday more is revealed to Mitch about Morrie's condition and we see how this affects Mitch. Morrie hides that he can no longer chew foods from Mitch, and Mitch becomes ashamed when he realized he just keeps bringing reminders of things that Morrie can no longer do. This shows how much Mitch thinks of Morrie and is conscious of everything that affects him.
Morrie's character is developed more in The Professor, Part Two because his past is shown to us. We see some of the events that shaped him into the man that is was. The beginning of the chapter says "The Morrie I knew...would not have been the the man he was without the years he spent working at a mental hospital". We see how he was different when he interacted with the patients and how he really connected with everyone.
Morrie is teaching Mitch that once you fully experience an emotion, you can recognize it and turn it off. In the novel, it says "I don't have to let it control me. I see it for what it is." This means that you'll be able to sense which emotion is consuming you, and you can detach from it. Morrie tells Mitch that he can do this with any emotion; fear, loneliness, love. Morrie doesn't say that you won't feel the emotion anymore, just that you can detach yourself from it for a little while.
ReplyDeleteIn The Sixth Tuesday more is revealed to Mitch about Morrie's condition and we see how this affects Mitch. Morrie hides that he can no longer chew foods from Mitch, and Mitch becomes ashamed when he realized he just keeps bringing reminders of things that Morrie can no longer do. This shows how much Mitch thinks of Morrie and is conscious of everything that affects him.
Morrie's character is developed more in The Professor, Part Two because his past is shown to us. We see some of the events that shaped him into the man that is was. The beginning of the chapter says "The Morrie I knew...would not have been the the man he was without the years he spent working at a mental hospital". We see how he was different when he interacted with the patients and how he really connected with everyone.
1. Morrie is teaching Mitch and us that being emotional is okay. We need to learn to accept emotion. In the novel Morrie talks about fear. He faces fear on a daily basis because he is unsure on which day might be his last. But he has learned to accept this fear. Morrie looks at fear for what it is and has decided he will not let it control him.
ReplyDelete2. The significance of the scene is too show Mitch is not the only one that was loosing someone. A wife is loosing her husband. She appreciates everything everyone is doing but she wants to spend what time Morrie has left with him. As much as she appreciates everything she clearly has a lot on her mind at this point. This is why she keeps looking off in the distance as she talks to Mitch. She wants to show appreciation and let people see Morrie but she wants to spend time with him too as his days are limited.
3. It develops Morrie as a character by showing his simple approach to fix things and how he genuinely cares about other human beings. When he worked in the mental hospital he did what other workers did not do. He talked to and go to know patients. This helped the patients he got to know because he could understand what was wrong with them more and try to fix it. Also when there was an African-American protest on campus he helped the African-American side by simply talking to them and asking them what they want. Also when students could get drafted if they were not maintaining a certain GPA Morrie decided to help as much as he could and gave all his students A's.
Morrie is teaching Mitch and his audience about emotions. Morrie says that in order to leave an emotion and to understand it, you must let it fully penetrate you first. This means that you must experience the emotion before you can understand it and detach yourself from it. Morrie says that if you hold back on your emotions, then you can never detach yourself from them because you are afraid of the pain and the grief that it’ll bring.
ReplyDeleteThe first scene in, “The Sixth Tuesday,” is when Mitch is greeted by Charlotte instead of the usual Connie. He then hands her the food he got for Morrie and notices that he has not even eaten the food from last week. He also notices the many pill bottles lying around the kitchen. Mitch also realizes that Charlotte must have a lot of people to deal with since Morrie has so many visitors, but somehow she manages to still function. This suggests that Mitch does not only care about himself anymore. He is starting to focus more on the others around him and less on money and work.
“The Professor, Part Two” helps to further develop Morrie as a character in the memoir. It gives us some background into what Morrie did other than work as a professor at Brandeis. It shows us that he developed his compassion when he worked at a mental hospital. He was even well liked before he was a professor. He made friends with multiple people at the mental hospital even though he was not supposed to.
1. Morrie is teaching Mitch how to deal with emotions. Morrie says that if you detach yourself and let the emotion penetrate you fully, then you are able to leave it. He is also telling Mitch not to be afraid of the emotion because then you cannot fully detach from that emotion and you hang on to it forever.
ReplyDelete2. The significance of this scene shows the decline in Morrie's health and where he is headed. Morrie has not been eating much and cannot eat most food as it is too hard for him to swallow. Mitch is really worried about Morrie and his declining health, Mitch just wants to do something for Morrie but realizes that all he can do is meet with Morrie every Tuesday and support Morrie until he passes.
3. We see more into his caring side in this chapter. Since we see another aspect of Morrie a lot more in-depth, he is developed ,yet again, as a round character.
Morrie is teaching Mitch and his audience to let yourself be surrounded by your emotions. Instead of shielding yourself from emotions until they break through, Morrie says to let them wash over you until you can identify the emotion. Once you can identify the emotion, you can separate yourself from it. If you know you are feeling fear, you can isolate it and focus on it, until the emotion passes.
ReplyDeleteIn the beginning scenes of The Sixth Tuesday Mitch is shown as a caring person, who doesn't know what he can do. The only thing he thinks he brings is food, and he is now realizing Morrie cannot eat any of it. He feels sorry for bringing the food, like he is torturing Morrie by showing him things he cannot use. This is not the Mitch we saw in the beginning of the story. He is more caring and considerate, and we see his progress from Morrie’s “lessons”.
The Professor, Part Two shows that Morrie has always cared for people, and they have always cared for him. This section of the book makes reader feel close and more attached to Morrie as we more of his life, especially his early jobs. His first job shows that he has always wanted to help people. During the sixties he gave his students A’s so they would not be drafted, and everyone of his students liked him. Through these experiences, we see how Morris became wise and gained his opinions on life. We see character develops of Morrie and grow close to him in this chapter.
Morrie is teaching Mitch, and ultimately his audience, about emotions. He explains that in order to understand and feel emotions, you have to realize your current emotions so you can relate to them and not be afraid of them. Morrie explains to us that you need to throw yourself into your emotions, so you can experience them completely. This directly shows us the comparison that when you can learn and experience one full emotion, you can learn and understand many other emotions. Morrie tries to teach Mitch to be more universal, so as he continues to make his way through life, he can embrace his emotions and not be scared of them. The lesson Morrie is trying to teach is important because without learning to detach from your emotions, you will not be able to understand and handle why they come.
ReplyDeleteIn, The Sixth Tuesday, the first scene has a significant meaning because it shows how Morrie's disease is slowly talking over his body, which makes him suffer a little, although, Morrie could not be any happier to see Mitch and his other visitors in his life. In the chapter, it says that Morrie could not tell Mitch that he he could not eat all of the food that he brought. Morrie does not want to hurt his feelings, which shows that Morrie is compassionate towards other people's feelings. This scene also shows that Mitch is caring, helpful, and unselfish. Mitch tries to respect Morrie, even after he is shocked to see all of the food in the fridge when he thought that he was being helpful.
In, The Professor, Part Two, Morrie's character develops in the memoir. The reader finds out that Morrie once worked at a mental hospital, which helped him become the man he is now. He rejected medicine, law, and business and focused on research. He observed mental patients and recorded their treatments. Morrie saw different emotions and actions of the mental patients. He even felt sad for some of the patients misery, loneliness, and missed compassions. He realized that some of the patients just want to be noticed. This helps build up Morrie's character because he realizes the emotions and actions with how people react to things. He also realizes that people do certain actions just so they can be noticed. This shows Morrie's compassion towards other people.
Morrie is teaching that to fully experience an emotion you must "detach" yourself from it. This concept, as Mitch explains, is like "Washing yourself with the emotion" but not letting it penetrate your heart and make you feel badly. Morrie explains further that if he dies in a coughing storm, he needs to be able to identify the feeling of fear and be able to push it away.
ReplyDeleteThe scene of the sixth Tuesday shows Morrie's deteriorating health, but also his increase of understanding in the depth of death. Morrie often starts his lesson with his topic and he starts by saying "[I'm] detaching myself..." Mitch struggles to understand this because, personally he is very overwhelmed with emotion when bad things happen. When his brother ignored him, he buried himself in his work out of depression and guilt, when his uncle died, he never got over the scene of him crying out in pain. Mitch obviously has trouble with managing and identifying his emotions.
The Professor shows Morrie as a leader with a heart, but not out of ignorance but experience. Instead of following his feelings (which were purely emotional), he spent years researching metal patients which made him derive to the conclusion of being compassionate and understanding, with reason. This shows that through personal experience and experiment, Morrie has a way of life that is well thought out and proven, not out of ignorance and a light heart.
ReplyDeleteOn page 103 Morrie talks about emotion and how to detach from emotions. The quote on page 103 starting with " Ah. Your thinking now..." is Morrie talking to Mitch explaining what it truly means to detach from an emotion. He explains how the only way to truly dethatch you fist must fully express an emotion and "allow it to fully penetrate you." then you can detach from it and experience other emotions.
I believe that Mitch is learning how important he is to morrie, through a simple act of not wanting to hurt his feelings. It shows how beneficial the presence of oneo another is to each other.
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This flash back shows him working at a mental hospital. it shows how he cares for the patients more than the other workers and how he would actually build friendships with them. This gives backround onto how mitch is so good around moorrie.
Morrie is trying to teach Mitch and his audience that emotions are not a bad thing, that they are normal parts of being human. Morrie is also trying to specifically teach Mitch the unimportance of materialism. Morrie achieves this through his teachings on detachment. He is trying to teach Mitch how to detach from not only emotions but also materialistic things. Morrie has done this throughout the past, especially through the hinge chapter. This quote was used to try to teach Mitch this lesson “Once you learn how to die, you learn how to live.” He used this quote to try to make Morrie realize that you have to abandon you current way of life, to start a new more fulfilling one. Next Morrie is trying to teach both Mitch and the audience about emotions. He teaches that emotions are not bad, but natural parts of being human. He shows this through is crying whenever he is saddened by something, and his openness about his depressed mood. Although here, he shows us that he experiences these emotions to learn how to detach from them, in order to be able to control them. This is how he teaches self control, so that Mitch may control himself and stop being materialistic, while the audience may apply it to their life, because self control helps us to do anything we want.
ReplyDeleteThe first scene in The Sixth Tuesday shows that Mitch does not know how to express love but in materialistic ways. Mitch wants to express his love for Morrie, although the only way that he knows how to is by items, not affection. Every Tuesday Mitch brings Morrie some food, as if to cheer Morrie up. Morrie does cheer up, but not from the food, but Mitch. Finally when Mitch realizes that Morrie cannot eat the food will he stop. This shows another key characteristic about Mitch, that he is trying, trying to show love. This resembles him changing, even though he has been doing this since some of the early Tuesdays, due to his persistence, we know he is trying. The first scene in The Sixth Tuesday shows that Mitch is trying to show love, but does not know how to without items, in this case it happens to be food.
In The Professor Part Two we learn some more history about Morrie. We learn that he used to do research in a mental hospital. This explains why Morrie is so knowledgeable about the human mind and emotions, he studied how humans behave in a more primitive state. Even though most of us are not mentally ill, we still do relate back to that primitive state. Secondly, we see how Morrie has not always followed society with his time as a teacher. He uses to join his students in protests, works his way around university officials to get his way, or be a peacemaker, when nobody else would. This shows that Morrie never cared about doing what other people wanted him to do, but did what he wanted to do. This shows that Morrie always tired his best to do what was right. Morrie’s character development in The Professor Part Two, explains why he has the knowledge and personality he has today.
Morrie is teaching Mitch that he needs to detach. He says that if you never go all the way through with emotion you can never be able to get passed the moments in life that you are afraid of. Fear and pain are what are keeping you from being able to unattached. He explains you are afraid of the grief. One will never fully be able to let go or explain how they feel until they through the process and have no fear.
ReplyDeleteIn the First scene from the chapter Mitch learns that the food he has been bringing to Morrie for the past two hasn't been touched. Morrie being unable to swallow and chew these foods doesn't want to hurt his old friends feelings by telling him the truth. The significance from this is it shows us the person Mitch is. He says he just wanted to help him in some way, maybe by bringing him something. This shows that Mitch wants to give back to his professor as he has helped and gave him so much in his life.
The professor part two shows us what kind of person Morrie is and what his interest was. He was great at helping people and taking notes, along side observations. He was able to help others when other people couldn't get through to them. This shows us how significant his social skills was and how knowledgeable Morrie is.
Morrie is teaching Mitch and the readers to "detach" themselves from their emotions. He's not saying, though, to feel nothing, but to do the opposite and let the emotions flow out of you. He wants Mitch to know that he has a limited time on this earth and shouldn't get caught up and hold back his emotions. Even though you will feel vulnerable when you expose your feelings and society makes it seem wrong, you aren't doing yourself any good by keeping it all in. As Morrie said: "If you hold back on the emotions - if you don't allow yourself to go all the way through them - you can never get to being detached" Detachment is important, because it can get through the harder times and emotions. If you have already gone through fear for example, you know what it feels like and can detach yourself from the pain; just like Morrie did when he got a coughing attack. Every one could be his last, so he detaches himself from the fear, accepts the fact that it could be his last moments, and is prepared to die in perfect serenity.
ReplyDeleteThe first scene with Morrie's wife, Charlotte, is significant, because of how she acts. She is obviously fretting over something for she can't finish a sentence before she pauses and shifts her head. This is her reacting to Morrie's condition and this really shows how quickly and violently he is deteriorating. When Charlotte says how bad he's doing, Mitch begins to say sorry, for he felt he was intruding, and may have even left if she didn't stop him. She stopped him, because she said how much Morrie looks forward to these visits. Even in his near-death condition, he stills puts a large effort into seeing Mitch and this says a lot. Morrie and Mitch have really become very close friends again. Mitch really cares about him. You can tell when he becomes panicked during one of Morrie's coughing attacks.
This section gives even more background to the character of Morrie. It talks about what he did in college and his first job in a mental hospital. As the flashback explains his job their, a few more personal traits of Morrie are built upon. When he was assigned to do research on the patients there, was horrified to see how lonely they were. Even though he was encouraged not to, he befriended many of them and they opened up to him; something the workers there have been trying for years. The secret was Morrie's compassion. He is so compassionate that he lies in the middle of the floor with a patient to make her feel like someone can see her. The level of compassion and love Morrie has is really shown here. After the first job, he becomes a professor on campus who uses his intelligence and loving morals to be a peacemaker who helps to solve problems. His impact on the campus is significant. Some of the teachers become more relaxed and sort of inherit his teaching ways by caring about the students even more. Over all, this section shows how lovable he is, how loving and compassionate he is, and how much he has impacted people positively.
Morrie is teaching Mitch and his audience to disregard bad emotions while still accepting them. He spoke repeatedly of "Detaching" from the emotions, which Mitch initially interpreted as shunning all awareness, but Morrie meant you should reflect on emotions so they don't interfere with rationality. "All right. I have experienced that emotion. I recognize that emotion. Now I need to detach from that emotion for a moment." The first scene in The Sixth Tuesday is significant because it not only showcases how much Mitch is changing, but how much Morrie isn't. Morrie is still too kind and too appreciative to turn down what Mitch gives him, despite his inability to use it. However, Mitch is changing in many ways. He's starting to show genuine concern and compassion for someone he genuinely cares about, as if he's not solely working on some research project, but opening up and experiencing emotions from someone. Morrie warned him. He said he'd show him how okay it is for a man to have feelings, and Morrie was right. Mitch is changing, and it's for the better. In The Professor, Part Two, Albom once again shows a younger, able-bodied Morrie and how effective his mind was. All of the information given--everything about the mental hospital and the 1960's--recalled events which helped shape Morrie's attitude and thought process in his later years. He learned how difficult some people can be and observed how detrimental being ignored can be over long time periods. He showed unyielding kindness to desperate young adults trying their hardest in a seemingly hopeless situation. He learned how to be kind and how to give, and those are things he never forgets.
ReplyDeleteMorrie is teaching Mitch on how to detach oneself from emotion. Morrie says. "…detachment doesn't mean you don't let the experience penetrate you. On the contrary, you let it penetrate you fully.That's how a person is able to leave it. By being able to fully allow the emotion to penetrate the person and then recognize it for what it is, they get to experience things more fully than if you shy away from them as too painful or frightening.
ReplyDeleteThe first scene in "The Sixth Tuesday" shows that Morrie and Charlotte do not need the food that Mitch is bringing. This has not been helping Morrie or Charlotte at all. It is more of a reverse because it emphasizes what can no longer do. This scene suggests that it is Mitch's presence is what Morrie truly needs and looks forward to every Tuesday. Mitch has given Morrie physical affection that he needs and has lifted his spirit when Mitch arrives.
The memoir developed Morrie as a character with a sense of understand all types of people. In the mental hospital, Morrie has seen many emotions and action of different people. It makes him a more rounded and dynamic character because after of seeing the patients, he has a different view of the world around him.
Morrie teaches Mitch that emotions are a delicate feature of a person and need to be recognized when felt without being controlled by them. When Mitch visits Morrie on the sixth tuesday, Morrie talks about detaching himself from his emotions. He says the recognition of the emotion is important. As you feel this emotion you must not let it control you. Therefore, he detaches himself from his feelings in order to keep a clear mind.
ReplyDeleteThis scene displays Albom's affection and genuine care for Morrie. He truly wishes to help Morrie enjoy himself through food and is ashamed once he is told that is not possible. It also shows the progress in Morrie's disease and how it is controlling him.
The next chapter shows background on Morrie's life before he comes a teacher. This chapter shows Morrie's instinctive compassion towards others as he attempts to befriend the patients. The study of these patients helped him to study people's behavior in public. He came onto another level of understanding. Morrie became a lover of peace and wishes to bond on a personal level with others. This attracted his students and his popularity flourished.
Morrie tells Mitch that he has to detatch from his body. Morrie is having a vey bad day,and he can no longer eat the food Mitch brings."Yes. Detaching myself. And this is important-not just for someone like me, who is dying, but for someone like you, who is perfectly healthy. Learn to detach." Morrie tells Mitch this so he is able to detach and not always have to cling on. We see people all the time trying to cling on for extra time in there lives, but they need to learn to detach in Morries eyes. The first scene of, The Sixth Tuesday, shows that Mitch does care about Morrie. He brings food and is told by Charlotte that he can ingest that kind of old anymore. He also develops a rapid cough. This saddens Mitch because he knows Morries time is coming to an end. In the Professor Part 2, it develops Morrie has a man who cares about people his whole life. He denied gong into the medical and law fields, but decided to study the way the world works. He worked in a mental hospital and the people inside saddened him. He learned that everybody wants someone to notice them. From the rest of his life, Morrie noticed people.
ReplyDeleteMorrie teaches Mitch and his audience that emotions get in the way of living a meaningful life. For instance, Morrie explains the Buddhist philosophy of how one should not favor or become attached to things because they are destroyed. He reveals how detachment should be the ability to immerse yourself and accept destiny. So if you cannot accept death , then you cannot live to your fullest.
ReplyDeleteThe significance of the Sixth Tuesday is that it suggests that Mitch and Morrie are equally helping each other. When Mitch finds out Morrie has not eaten the food he has brought because he is physically not able to eat many solid foods, Mitch thinks he was not helping Morrie, but Charlotte reveals that Mitch gives Morrie the purpose to live til their lesson is done. This scene shows that Mitch is clueless to the two way benefits of their discussions together. So Morrie's life lessons to Mitch and Mitch reminder to Morrie of a purpose to live suggests that Mitch and Morrie are equally helping each other.
In The Professor, Part Two, Morrie is characterized as liberal. Through Morrie's actions as a researcher at a mental institution, he goes against policy and becomes friends with different patients. This makes him more successful at discovering their philosophy- like most only wanted compassion or attention for their actions. In addition when Morrie realized male students who did not maintain a certain grade point average were drafted, he decides to give his students all A's. this shows how Morrie challenges popular social values, so Morrie is characterized as liberal through his actions.
What Morrie is teaching Mitch about emotions is that they can't drag you down. For example he states that you need to detach yourself because it is impertant. This is explaining that nothin is going to last forever, that it is unimportant. He explains that you need to live for the now , and not the past
ReplyDeleteIn the first scene of this section, Mitch brings food like he always does to Morrie. He comes to realize that He didn't eat any of it, that it was stored in the refrigerator because he couldn't eat it. His wife claims that "Morrie doesn't want to hurt his feelings" I think that Morrie doesn't want Mitch to worry about him. He wants Mitch to remember him of what is going on right then . Also, I believe that Morrie doesn't want Mitch to realize tht he is doing worse and this is why this scene is important.
In the next session it develops Morrie in the memoir by showing that Morrie was a compassionate person even before he was dying. One of these reasons is that in the mental hospital he would lay with the woman on the floor . And he would watch and "it saddened him". It was "a lesson never forgotten". Finally, it shows how Morrie gave all of his students A's because he didn't want them to fail. This is how it explains Morrie and tht he was compassionate all of his life
In "The Sixth Tuesday" Morrie is teach Mitch and the audience a very important lesson about life and ultimately death. He is trying to explain to us that we need to detach. Detach from the experiences of death, our emotions, and most importantly our fears. He tells us we need to accept them. And go into them and experience them fully to understand that it is just an emotion, thus it doesn't have the power to control us if we don't let it. Morrie tells Mitch that he wants to die a calm, peaceful death. But he knows it will most likely be during one of his awful coughing fits. So he is learning how to detach himself from things like that, so he can die in peace not in a state of fear. The main point Morrie was trying to tell Mitch and ultimately the audience is that we need to accept our emotions and in this case death, and we need to detach from at some point.
ReplyDeleteIn the first scene of "The Sixth Tuesday" Morries caregiver Charlotte greeted Mitch, who had again brought food for Morrie. She explained to him that Morrie's health is declining quickly. She shows him that he hasn't eaten the food Mitch brought him on his last visit. I believe this hit Mitch hard now that he knows Morrie's true state of health and that he most likely doesn't have much time left. I feel this scene alone suggests that Mitch is starting to become a more caring person. That his old ways of just caring about work and a paycheck are slowly but surely diminishing away. And maybe there is a possibility that Mitch will continue this caring in his home and with family.
In "The Professor, Part Two" Morrie's teaching career is being described. He is being portrayed as a caring man, who just wanted peace between everyone. He have everyone a chance and gave them attention that we all need. He was able to do many things in his life. Even though he was just as sociology teacher and most of his students probably didn't become rich after his classes, they all loved him. Almost all of his students came back to Morrie to say hello, smile, or have a conversation with him. Morrie left an impact on every student he had.
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ReplyDeleteMorrie is teaching us to embrace our emotions. If we do not run from then but express them, they can't hurt us. When you bottle things up, they affect you more than you ever thought they could. If you embrace and express them, they will not hurt you, they will help you in life.
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this scene is very significant because it is showing that morries time is soon. The disease is there. Mitch cannot hide from death any longer. It will happen in the near future. Mitch is beginning to feel the effects of the disease as he understands what everybody else in Morrie's life has been going through. This helps mitch take a step towards the man Morrie is trying to sculpt.
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This chapter helps Morrie as a character in The Memoir because it begins tot ruely reveal Morrie. How he sees other people and how he taught. Also it shows how he cared for others, such as his students, by not giving them grades so they would not get drafted by the army. When they said he was required to give grades, he gave A's to resolve the issue. Also, by getting a list from the protestors and helping the ladies in the mental hospital, shows how people feel about him. This shows how much of an impact his outlook on life has on all the other people involved within it.
Morrie is teaching Mitch to not hold back his emotions but to fully let them out and then detach from them. Everyone feel emotions such as love, depression, sadness, and joy but many people hold them back and don't fully express them. They don't allow themselves to completely dive into the emotion and to see what it all feel like. When people are sad they don't let the tears fall, when people are in love they don't express it, when people are happy they don't let themselves smile. So when people experience these emotions again, they don't know how to deal with them when they show up again. Because of this, they don't get a chance to fully experience life.
ReplyDeleteThe significance of the first scene is that we see how Mitch has evolved as a character. He starts to care more about people than his work and notices the little things around him. Every time he visits Morrie, he brings him food from his favorite market. He notices all they pills Morrie has to take and has great worry when Morrie coughs become more and more violent.
In "The Professor, Part Two" we see that Morrie is ahead of his time and culture. The way he breaks the rules and befriends the patients at the institute shows the intimate relationships he is able to create with his students. Because of this many of his students return even if its for a simple smile. He also believes the growth of culture. Morrie creates his own culture and if the culture doesn't adhere to his rules then we protests for them to change. Morrie is always changing, creating his own world around him.
I think what Morrie is teaching Mitch can be referred back to what he says in the beginning to Mitch, "I'm going to show you it's okay to cry". In this section, Morrie is explaining to Mitch that it is indeed okay to let everything out, and not hold back our emotions because holding them in will do us no good. If you let out the emotions as they come you don't hold the bearing weight it may bring on your shoulders which will eventually crush you, instead it will come, you will let it out, and you move on with your life.
ReplyDeleteThe first scene in The Sixth Tuesday, is Mitch explaining in great detail the small things in life that he would've been missing out on if he had never gotten to see Morrie and 'take classes' with him again. This shows that Mitch is truly changing for the better by listening to Morrie in these class sessions, because at the beginning of the book Mitch would've never stopped and just looked at what was around him, he probably would've been in work mode and on the phone instead of looking around and taking in the beauty that life offers us.
In The Professor, Part Two, Mitch is telling the audience that if Morrie had never taken the one job he had at a mental institution, he would not be the man he was. In this section it describes what Morrie saw and went through during his days working in the institution, and it showed how much love and compassion he truly has. How? In the section, Mitch is talking about a woman who would leave her room everyday, go into the hallway and lay facedown, not saying a word to anyone, just laying there as the workers and everyone else just maneuvered their way around her, ignoring her. This got to Morrie so he would lay with her and sit with her until she eventually sat up and would return to her room. When it was asked why she laid down, she said that what she wanted was someone to notice she was there. And it saddened him. This shows he is compassionate in caring for and helping others.
Morrie is trying to teach Mitch that it is fine to let your emotions shine through, and cry every once in a while. Morrie has been trying to teach Mitch this since college. There is even a flash back to the times when Morrie would tell Mitch this after their class discussions. Mitch would always share very little, and it was not because he could not answer. He kept to himself because he was always hesitant to show his emotions to anyone else.
ReplyDeleteIn the first scene of "The Sixth Tuesday" Mitch is overwhelmed when he sees that Morrie is unable to eat the food being brought to him. Mitch finally let's some of his emotions out, as he makes it evident that he is embarrassed and feels bad for bringing food. Mitch believes that he is making it worse for Morrie, considering he is reminding Morrie of something he can no longer do.
This section of the book develops the "teacher" side of Morrie. We see that, Morrie is more concerned about understanding what students want. One example is when he realizes that the black students cause issues because they are looking for attention. They just want to feel like someone cares, and that is why they let Morrie in. This is the same case when Morrie works in the mental hospital with students. The one lady sits in the hallway, and Morrie is the only one to pay attention to her. After she realizes that someone notices her, she moves. For this reason, Morrie was the only person who was able to connect with her.
Morrie is trying to teach Mitch and the audience that no one should stay attached to one emotion. He also is trying to teach them that in order to understand an emotion, you must fully understand it by filing yourself with whatever emotion. Emotions are determined by an infinite number of things, but if you can have a full understanding of emotions, you'll understand which emotion is attached to that event and be able to be in the moment but also live in other moments. He explains this by giving his own examples of fear from coughing spells or catching his breath.
ReplyDeleteThe significance of the first scene in "The Sixth Tuesday" reveals Morrie's degeneration of health from his disease as his wife Charlotte answers the door which hasn't happened since he started the visits. This scene suggests about Mitch that he has a way of showing his love through the food. He brings it weekly and it symbolizes the consistency through the rough patch in Morrie's life. It also shows how much Mitch doesn't want to do anything, even the little things, that might make Morrie upset. I learned this when he thinks about all the leftover food just in a sense mocking Morrie for not being able to eat the food.
"The Professor, Part Two" develops Morrie as a character as it gives background information on Morrie's life before he became a professor but also as his time as one.Working with mental patients turns people away more times than not but Morrie decided to take on the job. He knows that people are still people even when they aren't "normal". he takes the time to befriend the lady who lays on the ground and reveal a side of her that none of the other workers would've been able to see without engaging her. These part of the book also develops Morrie character as he does extraordinary things through the sixties such a giving students A's so they wouldn't be entered into the draft and trying to figure out what the students wanted from the chemistry lab. The students only trusted him to talk to which means they had a sense of comfort when talking with Morrie. His students always told him he was like no other teacher. He cared about people no matter what situation was given to him.