BOOK REPORT
Haruna Tajima
1) MLA CITATION
Albom, Mitch. tuesdays with Morrie. sphere. United States: Little, Brown and Company, 1997.
2) RESPONDING TO THE PLOT
a) If you were a character in this story, what would you have done differently?
b) If you were the author, what would you change in the book?
c) Choose a quotation from a character in the book, include the page number and describe the situation in which the character makes the remark. Explain your reason for choosing it.
If I were the character, which is Mitch, I would do same thing for morrie. I mean I go his house every Tuesday because Mitch used to take Morris’s class on Tuesday and morrie said that we were Tuesday people. And since morrie love to talk, Mitch was one of the religions. I think Mitch did the best for morrie however, not enough for Jenny who is his girl friend. At the first, he didn’t give enough love to her because his work was too busy and he was always be pushed for time. Add to this, he seems that he was not good at love stuff. So if I were Mitch, I think about Jenny more than work and try not to make her sad or feel lonely. So I would have done this part differently. Also if I were the author of this book, I changed the last chapter and make it longer because in this book the author mainly wrote about Morris’s lesson not much about after he dead. I think morrie wanted to tell people about how to live and also he wanted them to understand his lesson and use these for people’s life so I think the author should write about what Morris’s lesson changed his life differently after the Morris’s death.
There is the part goes like this ‘Now. Watch what I do. He inhales, and then began his number count in a soft, wobbly voice. “One-two-three-four-five-six-seven-eight-nine-ten…. Eighteen” He stopped, gasping for air. “When the doctor first asked me to do this, I could reach twenty-three. Now it’s eighteen” he closed his eyes, shook his head. “My tan is almost empty.”(P37). When Mitch came to see Morrie at the First time, he said he was not sure if he could came back to see him again because his house is too far away from Morris’s house to visit. Morrie tried to tell Mitch that he would no longer to live without using negative words that are in these quotations. Morrie showed this experiment to him. From these quotations I can tell that Morrie really wanted to talk to Mitch more so he tough it was easier to tell Mitch that he’s life was getting shorter. Morrie said really good words in this story, however I pick this one because their show more likes humanity of Morris’s part.
2) ANALYZING 7 LITERARY TERMS (each term in 2-3 sentences)
1. Setting: Present. In Michigan
2. Point of view: a story is told from First person.
3. Conflict: Morrie versus ALS
4. Climax: Morrie finally died however he told everything he wanted to Mitch and he also had a great time to say people good bye.
5. Symbol; Love
6. Irony: When Mitch didn’t go NY for his job but went to Morris’s house. I though he was going to lose his job. But Jenny told his company stuff about Morrie. So they understand him and decided not to fire.
7. Theme: This story tells us that lean not only from the textbook but also from what people saying. Add to this, love always win anytime if you really wish.
3) REFLECTING ON THE STORY (2 Paragraphs)
This story was really interesting but I was really shocked by ALS because Morrie was really nice person and he tried hard to tell people about life and how to live. However his sick were getting worst and worst. Finally he couldn’t even move his hands to take a note. Mitch’s life was much different from mine. He is a BUSY MAN like he can’t have an enough time to relax or talk to his girl friend. Environment is different too. I can make a time easily without any sacrifice like he. I have a school but family is much more important than school so if somebody in my family were sick, I can be absence school. If I made this story into a film, I think I put more other students in this story. I know that Mitch was his favorite student but I think not only Mitch but also there were some other his favorite students too. Since Mitch has friends, I want him to contact his friends and add more characters in film because If this story come to the film, it is going to be only a few people in there. Since this book is non-fiction, the author wants to tell people about Morrie who were the best teacher and friend of his life. He premised with Morrie to write this book so I think it inspired him to write this book. I really agree what Morrie said in this book. He said that love always win and people need love to live. I think same too. People never are able to live by one. They always need to someone to love or share happy with. So I leaned how much important to love people from this story. I haven’t really deeply thought about family, money, emotions, and so on. I had no chance to think about these, so I kind haven’t had my own ideas about these so I can not say that I changed my ideas after reading however I learned many new things from Morris’s lessons. Add to this, I already told but again, I though Mitch was going to lose his job because he skip his working and went to see Morrie. But thanks for Jenny; he didn’t lose his job.
