Events
witch Tuesday is this chapter acure in
the eleventh Tuesday and eighth and ninth
losing the ability to their most personal and basic things
Morrie
many of these patients were well-off from rich families so their did not buy them happiness or contentment
money can't buy happiness
simile used as
what's the late night show in the story
night line
Morrie lost the battle. Someone was now wiping his behind
he's loosing more of his ability to function
another of the issues on my what's-bugging-my-generation-list
Mitch
my inclination was to fight all of this... I felt a little ashamed because our culture tells us we should be
forget what the culture said
at seventy-eight he was given as an adult and taking as a child
simile used as
what day of the week does Mitch meet with Morrie
Tuesdays
at a quick glance it seemed as if Morrie were being packed for shipping
when Mitch is adjusting Morrie's pillows
and in his final months they came back to him hundreds of them from Boston, new York, California...
his past students from his class
it's growth. it's more then the negative that you're going to die
aging
the were embracing material things and expecting a sort of hug back
personification
what dose ALS mean
Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis
when did Morrie go to Brandeis
just before the 60s began
who Morrie first goes to to ask for help for the bathroom
Connie
"a middle aged women who would come out of her room every day and lay face down on the tied floor"
wanting to be seen
love is how you stay alive
metaphor you don't really stay alive
what was Morrie's brothers name
David
he had been entertained by a local a cappella group that had come to the house
one of his good days
"I don't want my tombstone to read I never owned a network"
Ted turner from the newspaper
"how do youy keep from envying..." "what" "me?"... "it is imposibl for the old not to envy the young"
values to be happy in yourself
for fear I was getting too close too forty and therefore professional oblivion
idiom professional oblivion meaning more then it's words
78 70s