Lying: A Personal Response To Morrie
Since today is a freewrite, I’m going to be entirely honest and say that I read the entire book the first night that we had it. I know that probably messed up my reactions to all the journal prompts, but today I want to write specifically about Mitch. Mitch in general just seemed incredibly insincere to me. It might be my natural reaction to emotion, but nothing that Mitch is saying seems real, and I hated it. It was a good story, to be sure- that’s the problem. It reads like a made-up story rather than an honest memoir, and that ruined the story entirely for me. From the beginning, Mitch tries to paint himself in the best possible light, even in a situation where he was entirely in the wrong. Take for instance his explanation for why he stayed
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Granted, that was likely the simple shock of the news, but the fact that he seems to be lying to the reader so early on is off putting, to say the least. Later on, when he’s describing Morrie’s reaction to seeing him for the first time in over a decade, I again got the sense that he was holding back, if not lying altogether. I believe that I mentioned in my first journal on this book something to the effect of, ‘Morrie must be an actual saint’. Don’t get me wrong, I absolutely love the character of Morrie, and I truly believe that he was a warm, loving, and giving person. With that being said, I don’t believe that he was quite as saintly as Mitch would have us believe. The way that Mitch describes him, the initial impression that one gets of Morrie is that he’s compassionate, yes, but he’s also firey, willing to fight to the last. That impression seems at odds with the overall impression given in the rest of the book. I believe that, whether intentional or not, Mitch is editing(or perhaps omitting entirely) Morrie’s words and overall
Granted, that was likely the simple shock of the news, but the fact that he seems to be lying to the reader so early on is off putting, to say the least. Later on, when he’s describing Morrie’s reaction to seeing him for the first time in over a decade, I again got the sense that he was holding back, if not lying altogether. I believe that I mentioned in my first journal on this book something to the effect of, ‘Morrie must be an actual saint’. Don’t get me wrong, I absolutely love the character of Morrie, and I truly believe that he was a warm, loving, and giving person. With that being said, I don’t believe that he was quite as saintly as Mitch would have us believe. The way that Mitch describes him, the initial impression that one gets of Morrie is that he’s compassionate, yes, but he’s also firey, willing to fight to the last. That impression seems at odds with the overall impression given in the rest of the book. I believe that, whether intentional or not, Mitch is editing(or perhaps omitting entirely) Morrie’s words and overall