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Death According to Mitch Albom

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and no one else has won the award more than once (Chinni, 2001). However, even consider these accolades, Albom is not a typical sportswriter. One expects a sportswriter to stick  with writing about sports -- not metaphysics. Yet, Albom gets very metaphysical in his best selling book Tuesdays with Morrie, a text in which Albom recounts his Tuesday visits with  Morrie, a scholar, teacher, and friend who was dying of ALS (Lou Gehrigs Disease). While the book basically gives Morrie a platform for his spiritual philosophy, it is Albom  who builds the stage. An examination of Alboms writing demonstrates that he has a true gift for expressing basic truths in an observational way that fits with his sports background  and puts things in a way that his readership can identify with. Tuesdays with Morris is a small book, just 192 pages. It begins by describing Morries life prior  to his illness and the circumstances under which he and Albom met. Through Alboms record of the conversations between the two men, the reader gradually learns about Morrie and his  attitudes toward dying and death, as well as how he sees such matters as forgiveness, family and regret (McHugh, 1999). Morrie is undoubtedly Jewish in his cultural orientation, yet  he is also far removed from Judaism (Schulweis, 2001). Albom describes Morrie as a "spiritual mutt," having gleaned the makings for his personal belief system from a variety of  sources. In a particularly moving chapter, "The Fourth Tuesday, We Talk About Death," Morrie describes his basic premise on life, which is a truth that dying has taught him.  He tells Albom, "Lets begin with this idea, Morris said. Everyone knows theyre going to die, but nobody believes it" (Albom, 2000, p. 1098). Morrie observes that, normally, people go