Presented By:

Yumna Arsh, Rameen Amir and Mahdiya Javed

Setting of the novel

The setting of the book is in Morrie's home in West

Newton, Massachusetts, and the genre of the novel
is memoir.
Themes in the novel

"Love Or Perish"
When love abounds, Morrie says, a person can experience no
higher sense of fulfillment. Throughout his fourteen Tuesday
lessons with Mitch, Morrie divulges that love is the essence
of every person, and every relationship, and that to live
without it, as Auden says, is to live with nothing.
“Movement and Change”
Tuesdays with Morrie is very concerned with the act of
moving through time and space. Movement is treated in turn
as inevitable, a privilege, scary, and necessary. Morrie is dying
of ALS, a disease that progressively limits its victims' ability to
move.
Major characters
Mitch Albom Eva
Morrie Schwartz Norman
Charlie Maurie Stein
Peter
Connie
Charlotte
Al Axelrad
Ted Koppel
Rob and Jon
Janine
Tony
David
Interesting incidents

1950s - Morrie Schwartz becomes a professor at Brandeis

University.
1979 - Mitch Albom graduates from Brandeis University.
1994 - Morrie Schwartz is diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral
sclerosis (ALS).
1995 - Mitch Albom sees Morrie Schwartz being interviewed
on Nightline
Interesting dialogues

“Love wins, love always wins.”

“The truth is, once you learn how to die, you learn how to live.”
“Don't let go too soon, but don't hold on too long.”
“I like myself better when I'm with you.”
“Don't cling to things because everything is impermanent”
Figurative language & sensory details

Simile. Pg.9 "ALS is like a lit candle: it melts your nerves and leaves
your body a pile of wax."
Simile. Pg.100 "The white rain gutter hung like a lid over the
doorway."
Metaphor. Pg.105 "Wash yourself with emotion."
Metaphor. Pg.92 "Without love, we are birds with broken wings."
Paradox. Pg.86 "I hope you can find the healing power in grieving."
Paradox. Pg.126 "It had become, in a very real way, a wealthy home,
even though Morrie's bank account was rapidly depleting."
Irony. Pg.77 "It was a terrible burden to Morrie. For years, the
only evidence Morrie had of his mother was the telegram
announcing her death."
Irony. Pg.80 "On the plane ride in, I had read about a woman
who had shot her husband and two daughters as they lay
sleeping, claiming she was
Imagery. Pg.3 "In his graduation day robe, he looks like a cross
between a biblical prophet and a Christmas elf. He has
sparkling blue-green eyes, thinning silver hair that spills onto
his forehead, big ears, a triangular nose, and tufts of graying
eyebrows."
Oxymoron. Pg.13 "His "living funeral" was a rousing success."
Author of novel & background

Mitchell David Albom is an American author, journalist, and

musician. His books have sold over 40 million copies
worldwide. Having achieved national recognition for sports
writing in his early career, he turned to writing the
inspirational stories and themes that weave through his books,
plays, and films.
Diction/ vocabulary

Biopsy: the removal for diagnostic study of a piece of tissue from a living body
Insatiable: incapable of being satisfied or appeased
Aphorisms: a terse saying embodying a general truth, or astute observation
Deferments: the act of deferring or putting off; postponement.
Lamented: mourned for, as a person who is dead
Alienation: the state of being withdrawn or isolated from the objective world, as through
indifference or disaffection
Atrophied: wasted; withered; shriveled
Cynical: distrusting or disparaging the motives of others
Rational: agreeable to reason; reasonable; sensible
Insidious: intended to entrap or beguile
Intrusive: tending or apt to intrude; coming without invitation or welcome
Clamoring: a loud uproar, as from a crowd of people
nostalgia:a wistful desire to return in thought or in fact to a former time in one's life, to
one's home or homeland, or to one's family and friends; a sentimental yearning for the
happiness of a former place or time
Imminent: likely to occur at any moment; impending
Ambivalence: uncertainty or fluctuation, especially when caused by inability to make a
choice or by a simultaneous desire to say or do two opposite or conflicting things
Egotistical: given to talking about oneself; vain; boastful; opinionated
Opiate: a drug containing opium or its derivatives, used in medicine for inducing sleep
and relieving pain.
Communal: used or shared in common by everyone in a group
Antidote: a medicine or other remedy for counteracting the effects of poison, disease,
etc.

Exploited: to utilize, especially for profit; turn to practical account

Indecipherable: not understandable; incomprehensible.

Solidarity: union or fellowship arising from common responsibilities and interests, as

between members of a group or between classes, peoples, etc.

Agnostic: a person who holds that the existence of the ultimate cause, as God, and the
essential nature of things are unknown and unknowable, or that human knowledge is
limited to experience

Transcend: to rise above or go beyond; overpass; exceed

Deficient: lacking some element or characteristic; defective

Teeming: abounding or swarming with something, as with people

Lavaliere: an ornamental pendant, usually jeweled, worn on a chain around the neck

Contorting: to twist, bend, or draw out of shape; distort

Perish: to die or be destroyed through violence, privation, etc.

Condemned: to express an unfavorable or adverse judgment on; indicate strong

disapproval of; censure

Laurels: any of various similar trees or shrubs, as the mountain laurel or the great
rhododendron

Lilting: rhythmic swing or cadence

Exertion: vigorous action or effort

Stout: bulky in figure; heavily built; corpulent; thickset; fat

Gazelle: any small antelope of the genus Gazella and allied genera, of Africa and Asia,
noted for graceful movements and lustrous eyes.

Radical: thoroughgoing or extreme, especially as regards change from accepted or

traditional forms

Levitate: to rise or float in the air, especially as a result of a supernatural power that
overcomes gravity
Inclination: a disposition or bent, especially of the mind or will; a liking or preference

Revel: to take great pleasure or delight

Oblivion: the state of being completely forgotten or unknown

Mogul: a bump or mound of hard snow on a ski slope

Inconsequential: of little or no importance; insignificant; trivial

Stagnated: to cease to run or flow, as water, air, etc.

Pilgrimage: a journey, especially a long one, made to some sacred place as an act of
religious devotion

Accosted: to approach and speak to in an aggressive or hostile manner

Solidifying: to make solid; make into a hard or compact mass; change from a liquid or
gaseous to a solid form

Alabaster: a finely granular variety of gypsum, often white and translucent, used for
ornamental objects or work, such as lamp bases, figurines, etc
Inherent: existing in someone or something as a permanent and inseparable element,
quality, or attribute

Innately: existing in one from birth; inborn; native

Momentous: of great or far-reaching importance or consequence

Stoic: of or pertaining to the school of philosophy founded by Zeno, who taught that
people should be free from passion, unmoved by joy or grief, and submit without
complaint to unavoidable necessity

Listing: the act of compiling a list

Serenity: the state or quality of being serene, calm, or tranquil; sereneness

Patriarch: a person regarded as the father or founder of an order, class, etc.

Whimsical: of the nature of or proceeding from whimsy, as thoughts or actions

Facade: any side of a building facing a public way or space and finished accord

Buoyant: tending to float in a fluid