PLN #1

I really have been enjoying Mitch Albom’s story of Tuesdays With Morrie. I was a little bored at the beginning but things have really picked up fast. I like how it is a true story so the emotion behind the writing and the emotion that I am feeling when I read it is all real. None of the feelings are fake and that comes across very well.


"Suddenly, I was upon the house. I pushed the breaks spilling coffee in my lap. As the car stopped, I caught a glimpse of a large Japanese maple tree and three figures sitting near it in the driveway, a young man and a middle aged woman flanking a small old man in a wheelchair.
Morrie.
At the sight of my old professor, I froze.”
It had been 16 years since Mitch had seen Morrie. Mitch had promised Morrie that he would stay in touch and he never did. I wonder why Mitch did that. I think he might have been scared that if he stayed too close to Morrie when he died it would be too hard on him.

Mitch pulls up to Morrie’s house while on a business call. “… I should have dropped the phone and jumped from the car, run and held him and kissed him hello. Instead, I killed the engine and sunk down off the seat, as if I were looking for something.” I also wonder why Mitch wanted to finish his business call when he saw Morrie, I would have hung up on the person, but Mitch wanted to drive around the block a few times to finish up. Was he scared, scared that Morrie wouldn’t remember him, scared that Morrie wouldn’t want to see him?

It’s a little confusing how it started at the end and then jumped back in time. I am most interested in finding out how Mitch deals with Morrie’s death.