Tuesdays With Morrie Life Lesson Anonymous 10th Grade

C.S Lewis once said, “You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.” In the biography “Tuesdays with Morrie” by Mitch Albom, Morrie, an old man is diagnosed with a fatal disease and has to choose between living out his final days on a bed, or make an impact on the world by helping people overcome their problems. Because of his decision to continue living his life, we can confirm that the greatest life lesson from this book is basically what C.S Lewis said: you are never too old to stop living life. The author also uses many literary devices to prove that this is the lesson to be learned.

One instance where we can see Morrie living life even after his illness doesn’t let him do too much is when people are sending letters back from around the world addressing their problems. The text reads, “‘What’s the first letter?’ Morrie said. A colleague read a note from a woman named Nancy, who had lost her mother to ALS. She wrote to say how much she had suffered through the loss and how she knew that Morrie must be suffering, too. And she was right, he was struggling. Every letter took nearly ten minutes to write back, and was usually only a couple sentences. Morrie wouldn’t stop though. Each letter added to his...