Your book report should include main points, the most important information you acquired by reading this book, your comments, and your thoughts.
Book Review of Tuesdays with Morrie Mitch Albom’s Tuesdays with Morrie was a beautiful memoir written for his favorite professor—Morris “Morrie” Schwartz. Mitch and Morrie’s relationship transcended the typical mentor and protégé roles, theirs was one of father and son. The book is a personal one, full of stories between Mitch and Morrie, in addition to social commentaries and life lessons both have observed over the years. More than just a New York Bestseller for Mitch Albom, Tuesdays with Morrie was written as a labor of love, Albom’s own way of immortaziling his withering teacher. As Morrie succumbs to ALS, Amyotropic Lateral Sclerosis, or most famously known as Lou Gehrig’s disease, in the book, his lessons and views become more substantial. I couldn’t stop reading lest I miss out on anymore of his lessons. A major point, if not the main, is Morrie’s emphasis on the the rejection of popular culture, instead, as the old adage goes, we should dance to the beat of your own drum.
“Take my condition. The things I am supposed to be embarrassed about now—not being able to walk, not being able to wipe my ass, waking up some mornings wanting to cry—there is nothing innately embarrassing about them. It’s the same for women not being thin enough, or men not being rich enough. It’s just what culture would have you believe. Don’t believe it.”
As I get older, this reasoning becomes more apparent. The technological age we are in, I believe, makes Morrie’s philosophy even more significant as information can be sent at light speed to the far reaches of the world—information, such as social norms. Media, through shows, movies, ads, magazines and posters display how we as individuals should act, from language, diets, fashion,