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What Is Morrie Shwarts Journey To Death
In Tuesdays with Morrie, the protagonist, Morrie Schwarts has allowed other people to conduct research on him, allowed people to follow his journey into death, and most importantly allowed Mitch to hear his story to share with others explaining why Morrie is interesting.
Early on Morrie is told he has ALS, and starts to lose his ability to accomplish strenuous tasks. Instead of feeling sorry for himself he decided to make death his last project. “Study me in a slow and patient demise. Watch what happens to me. Learn with me” (Morrie 10). He looks to the positive side of things and expects to become a human textbook as other research him until he dies.
Morrie is not embarrassed to be dying, he does not want to be isolated from the world because
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