Lessons of Morrie
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Lessons of Morrie
Corey Shambach
Pennsylvania College of Technology
Twelve years ago a well- known Detroit sports- writer Mitch Albom published a bestseller about an old friend and favorite professor, Morrie Schwartz. They had fallen out of touch due to Mitch’s demanding job and life. By a slim chance of fate, one night Mitch was switching through the TV channels and came across Ted Koppel, of Nightline, interviewing Morrie . Unbeknownst to Mitch, Morrie was now dying of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). In Mitch’s college days, Morrie was one of his mentors. It took the fact that Morrie was dying of ALS for Mitch to pick up the phone and become reacquainted with his old professor Morrie nicknamed “coach.” The conversation lead to Mitch now commuting every Tuesday from Detroit to New England to be the last student Morrie would ever have. Morrie was teaching Mitch lessons about life from a dying man’s perspective. Mitch recorded the last months of Morrie’s life while he was deteriorating from the deadly disease ALS. This experience made Mitch revaluate his own life and change his life forever. As a result of that experience, Albom went onto lay out less than two hundred pages, the life lessons such as loving and forgiving that could enrich anyone’s life.
The fatal disease ALS also became known as Lou Gehrig’s disease after Gehrig, a famous New York Yankee was diagnosed with this disease in 1939. Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis is “a progressive neurodegenerative disease [that] annually affects 30,000 people in the United States” (Wosk, 2006, p. 78). This means tens of thousands of Americans must deal with pain and frustration from this deteriorating disease annually. Some of the common symptoms are “weakness and fasciculations in any muscle or group of muscles” (Boyle & Ciuca p. 66). This means failing muscles and muscle spasms.“The disease may affect upper limbs and cause wasting or weakness of the intrinsic muscles of the hand” (Boyle & Ciuca,...
Corey Shambach
Pennsylvania College of Technology
Twelve years ago a well- known Detroit sports- writer Mitch Albom published a bestseller about an old friend and favorite professor, Morrie Schwartz. They had fallen out of touch due to Mitch’s demanding job and life. By a slim chance of fate, one night Mitch was switching through the TV channels and came across Ted Koppel, of Nightline, interviewing Morrie . Unbeknownst to Mitch, Morrie was now dying of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). In Mitch’s college days, Morrie was one of his mentors. It took the fact that Morrie was dying of ALS for Mitch to pick up the phone and become reacquainted with his old professor Morrie nicknamed “coach.” The conversation lead to Mitch now commuting every Tuesday from Detroit to New England to be the last student Morrie would ever have. Morrie was teaching Mitch lessons about life from a dying man’s perspective. Mitch recorded the last months of Morrie’s life while he was deteriorating from the deadly disease ALS. This experience made Mitch revaluate his own life and change his life forever. As a result of that experience, Albom went onto lay out less than two hundred pages, the life lessons such as loving and forgiving that could enrich anyone’s life.
The fatal disease ALS also became known as Lou Gehrig’s disease after Gehrig, a famous New York Yankee was diagnosed with this disease in 1939. Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis is “a progressive neurodegenerative disease [that] annually affects 30,000 people in the United States” (Wosk, 2006, p. 78). This means tens of thousands of Americans must deal with pain and frustration from this deteriorating disease annually. Some of the common symptoms are “weakness and fasciculations in any muscle or group of muscles” (Boyle & Ciuca p. 66). This means failing muscles and muscle spasms.“The disease may affect upper limbs and cause wasting or weakness of the intrinsic muscles of the hand” (Boyle & Ciuca,...