I'm currently reading the book Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom (published by DoubleDay in 1997). A couple of insights that i noticed throughout the book is that Mitch Albom is dealing with illness and dying throughout the book, because his professor from college is dying slowly and getting ill at the same time. I noticed that once the professor got ill that people started paying more attention to him and he was the center of attention to Mitch and the news cast also. Once you start dying or start to feel very ill that's when people start to pay more attention to you and then they start to cry once you die. The way i see it is why cry when im dead you should of been crying and missing me when i was alive, now you cry and miss me when im dead.
On the chapter Audiovisual Ted Koppel(ABC TV's Nightline host) came to visit Morrie because he wanted to interview him. As soon as Ted Koppel came to Morrie's house all of Morrie's friends came to his house because they all wanted to meet Ted Koppel the family and friends were all estatic except for Morrie. Throughout Morrie was talking about his life and how he's going to die and all the guy could ask was if Morrie watched his show. Towards the end of the interview Morrie asked the guy for permission if he can samething on tv and the Ted responded saying sure, so Morrie stated " Well, Ted, one day soon, someone's gonna have to wipe my ass." And the show was aired, Mitch was flicking through the channels and that's when he came to realized that he forgot all about his professor.
On pg. 19 when the book stated that all of Morrie's friends and family were filled with excitement to meet Ted Koppel and when he came in through the door the crowd of people were buzzed with excitement. This made me realize that they all didn't care about Morrie's situation they all just came to see Ted. As i realized while reading the chapter that the crowd was never mentioned again throughout the interview; which made me realize that the family and friends ignored Morrie like he was just some "oject" and nothing more.
On pg. 23 while Mitch was flipping through the channels he heard the news mention about Morrie and he went numb. This points out that Mitch the professors old student, apparently forgot all about Morrie until the news mentioned his name, and that's when Mitch came to realize that he forgotten all about him and that he should go visit him. Which means that of course Mitch lied and apparently forgot all aboout his professor, after he promised Morrie that he would always be there for him.
On pg. 27 while Mitch was driving his car he noticed Morrie in a nearby park on his wheelchair, Mitch then suddenly sank down on the car seat because he was scared to come face to face with Morrie. This shows that he was scared to come face to face with his old professor becasue Mitch realized he broke his promise and that he was never there for him until sixteen years later. Which shows that people forget about you once you alive and well but once you get sick and are close to dying that's when people remember you all over again.
Throughout my expierences i can say that i myself see that people forget about one another once they alive and well, but once they die they remembered them. Once when my cousin was alive people were never asking about him that much maybe like once in a blue, but once he was diagonosed with cancer people started to always ask for him and always be there for him, and always smiling and making him laugh. Once he died though people were all sad and crying for him, which made no sense because they should of cried and missed him when he was alive not once he's dead. As you can see with Mitch and Morrie's case, that Mitch forgot all about Morrie until he heard his name on the news and how sick he was, and then that's when Mitch started visiting Morrie a lot more than before.
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