At the conclusion of the story there is Morrie slowly but surely deteriorating. At this point, he has finally “gotten” to Mitch and now Mitch is starting to show some emotions. One section in this portion of the book that really made me happy when reading it was the fact that Mitch was able to get in touch with his brother, tell him how he truly feels and how much he values their relationship and so they develop another one between the two before it’s too late. Morrie’s lessons are extremely important to everyone that he comes into contact with; he even brought out the best in Mitch’s wife Janine when she came to see him. The relationship that Morrie and Ted Koppel had developed in the three visits shows that anyone that he comes into contact with has no choice but to become attached to him. Morrie’s help became so bad in the last 3 sections or so to the point that he could not get out of the bed, Mitch had never seen him like this because he was not one to lay around in the bed all day. His worse nightmare had happened, the disease had attacked his lungs and there was nothing else that could be done, a treatment had been developed but it didn’t cure the disease only prolonged it and Morrie was too far along for that. When Morrie died at the end of the story he was in the room by himself, he took his last breath when the family member that was holding vigil at his bedside walked to the kitchen. He had a private funeral for just close family and friends and Mitch vowed to keep their traditions of Tuesdays going but instead he would do all the talking and Morrie just listen.This has been the best book that I have read in a long time. It was filled with so many lessons that we as a society ignore. In the beginning of the book Morrie says that he always wanted Mitch to show some emotions and by the end he really gets to him. The relationship that the two men share is one of rarity and i...
