Tuesdays with Morrie: Answering a Few Questions

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Tuesdays with Morrie: Answering a Few Questions
Question 1:
Morrie’s
Idea of Detachment?
Morrie
believes that you do not push away strong feelings but, instead, you embrace strong feelings and you immerse yourself in them. Once you have done that, you can say to yourself that you have experienced that powerful emotion, can deal with it from this point forward, and you move onwards. Washing oneself in emotion anaesthetizes one (if that is the right word) from the pain of the emotion. All violent emotion has the potential for pain, but shutting yourself off from pain is the wrong way to go about things (
Albom
31-32). The key to living a healthy life is being able to walk away from strong emotions and sentiments (35).
As far as the disease...

.....l really comes off as a person who is solicitous and wants to see how
Morrie
is doing through the hard times; he wants to give
Morrie
a platform, wants to allow him to speak his mind, and wants to ensure that
Morrie
is comfortable as his life draws to a close. It is implied that Koppel, by allowing
Morrie
to take center stage and by allowing him to speak his mind, is doing something that a lot of media types refuse to do: the subject`s needs, rather than the interviewer`s needs, are first and foremost.
Works Cited
Albom
,
Morrie
. Tuesdays with
Morrie
: An Old Man, a Young Man, And Life’s Greatest Lesson.
n.d
. Web. 14 Oct. 2011 <http://faculty.ksu.edu.sa/inaam/Literary%20Translation/Mitch%20Albom%20-%20Tuesdays%20with%20Morrie(2.pdf>