Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom is a novel
about the importance of relationships in life. Mitch Albom was a student at
Brandeis University that created a blossoming connection with his professor,
Morrie Shwartz. After graduation, years passed by and the relationship
eventually fell apart and each person’s lives continued to go in their
individual directions. During the flipping of channels, Albom had a spontaneous
reconnection with his long lost professor and committed to visiting him each
Tuesday to discuss how to make Mitch’s life flourish to carve a new, happier
path.
Albom reaches out to an audience of the general public
with life challenges in the field of relationships. Albom focuses on the details
in the lessons he learned from Shwartz, making the book very oriented around
the lessons he learned each Tuesday. This draws in a particular audience who is
looking to learn about fixing relationships and mending their path in life. By
specifically detailing the lesson portion of the novel, Albom is able to guide
the audience through an informational lesson on life while characterizing not
only himself but Morrie Shwartz.
Mitch Albom keeps a constant purpose throughout his book.
He writes to express Morrie’s outlook on life and what should be considered
important in an individual’s journey. This purpose is achieved by using
rhetorical devices such as metaphors and anecdotes. By referring to flashbacks
often in the book, Albom helps the audience understand why each life lesson is
relevant in each Mitch’s and Morrie’s life. Metaphors are also heavily used to
show how even when at the end of the book, when Morrie passed away, his lessons
still greatly impacted his life and where it would go. The metaphors helped
show the audience what impact Morrie’s wisdom had on his life.
The purpose is communicated very successfully. By the end
of the book, the audience had a really clear understanding on the impact Morrie’s
lessons had on Mitch’s life, even after he had passed away.
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