I read the book Tuesdays with Morrie, and it was about a guy named Mitch who loses contact with his favorite college professor Morrie Schwartz. Mitch gets back into contact with Morrie when he sees him in an interview on TV and finds out that he's deathly ill from a disease called ALS. So every Tuesday, Mitch goes to meet with Morrie and talk to him about life and philosophy. Mitch feels very happy to be able to spend time with his former professor again, and considers these meetings his "final class" with Morrie as the professor. Eventually, Morrie is consumed and falls victim to ALS, slowly becoming a shell of his former self and dies.
This book is a memoir written in first person from Mitch's point of view. It affects the way we understand the book because Mitch is from a newer generation than, say, Morrie, so he talks about more modern problems that he struggles with besides his former professor dying. He seems to be much more concerned about his job and making money, which seems to be more of an issue now than in the past. He apparently was concerned about his job enough to end up not having children with his wife.
As I've said before, some of the issues Mitch faced are different than some of the issues Morrie faced because of the generational differences. An example would be that when Morrie was young, his father tried to get him a job at a factory to help support the family, despite his young age. Mitch never faced this, not only because his generation wouldn't allow them to work at a factory at such a young age, but also because of a difference in social class. Morrie's family growing up was very poor, struggling to make ends meet, while Mitch's was likely somewhere in the middle class.
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