He then chooses to focus on something else, deciding to focus on his meaning of life and Morrie.Īfter the first Tuesday visit, the narrator comes back every Tuesday, with a topic that he and his favorite professor talk about. He realizes that he’s been chasing the wrong dream and that what he writes doesn’t even matter, because the company he works for is on strike. He keeps thinking about Morrie and decides to stop writing about the tournament and sports in general. Shortly after the visit, the narrator works himself to exhaustion while reporting for the Wimbledon tennis tournament in London. Mitch visits him once, at first delaying his visit and not really knowing what to say. One night, he is flipping through a bunch of channels on TV until he comes across a show called Nightline, which featured the first of three interviews with Morrie Schwartz, his old professor.
Albom spends his time focusing solely on his work in order to ignore most of his thoughts. After his uncle passed away because of pancreatic cancer, he ends his failing career as a musician and becomes a fairly popular journalist for a newspaper in Detroit. On the other end, the narrator is struggling with his own life because of the choices he has made. Slowly, he starts becoming weaker and weaker, so he ends his teaching career. Years after Mitch’s graduation, Professor Morrie is diagnosed with ALS (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis). The narrator promises to keep in touch but ends up not fulfilling his promise.
Albom gives Morrie a monogrammed briefcase as a goodbye gift, and his professor hugs him and tells him to keep in touch.
He first recalls the day of the ceremony, where he last sees his favorite sociology professor, Morrie. Based on a true story, Tuesdays with Morrie takes place sixteen years after the narrator’s graduation.
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