Background Research Worksheet

Book Selection: Tuesdays with Morrie

Author: Mitch Albom

Using support from your research materials, identify and explain any political, social, economic, or cultural issues that may shape the story.

Imagine what it would be like to live in this situation. Using supporting details from your research, discuss the greatest challenges people might face under these circumstances.

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Based on your research, describe how these circumstances would affect a person's identity development (crisis, commitment, diffusion, foreclosure, moratorium, achievement).

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Answer and Explanation:

1. Using support from my research materials the political, social, economic, or cultural issues that may shape the story is

Based on the ALS article "The prognosis is especially grave in this form of ALS." This disease being incurable makes it harder to deal with as you watch the affected suffer. Mitch witnesses the symptoms Morrie has and I think, that is what makes him face reality and realize his life is coming to an end.

2. If I were to be under the circumstances that Morrie was under I would probably want to as well see everyone that I cared about again and i would definitely wish to do things that I never got to do before. Although, I would be a little bit scared since I would not know when I would die and I would also probably be thinking about all the things or everything that I could have done and what I should have done. But Morrie is entirely different because he's thinks about what he has now.

Source: My own opinion

3. If you were under Morrie's circumstances, you would definitely have more of a moratorium due to the fact that he's is in a huge crisis. Although Probably the biggest of them all he could die! So now that he knows this he is trying to say goodbyes and as well trying to spend alot of time with the people that he loves. Like mitch and his brother.

Lastly he is in Achievement because he is going through a crisis and gets to see Morrie.

Source: My own opinion.