Morrie Schwartz and Mitch Albon are the main characters in the book Tuesdays with Morrie. Tuesday with Morrie is the last lesson between Morrie, a university professor and Mitch Albom, one of his former students who is also the author of the book. After seeing his university professor in an interview on the "Nightline" program, the author recalls the promise he made sixteen years ago to continue to stay in touch with him. Now suffering from ALS, Morrie has very little time left and Mitch knows it. For this reason, Mitch takes a trip from Michigan to Massachusetts to meet him. Their meeting is successful and impresses both so much that they meet for the next fourteen consecutive Tuesdays, until Morrie. This setting is symbolic and corresponds to Morrie's teaching career and the many students' lives he was able to change. It is fitting that, as Morrie enjoyed teaching in his studio, he also taught his final lesson to Mitch, one of his beloved students, at home in the comfort of his studio. The reader experiences different emotions while reading the book, ranging from sadness to happiness, and will most likely dry up or hold back tears at the end. The book makes the reader reflect on their personal life and think about aging, family, compassion, forgiveness, and mentors in life, the same way Mitch Albom does throughout the book. Morrie discusses Erikson's identity in relation to the role confusion stage of psychosocial development. . The book is the result partly of an effort to compensate for the guilt of not living up to perceived responsibility or duty to families and friends and partly of an attempt to search for an identity within the self ambitious and competitive. Morrie, the main character is living his last days with integrity. It has to do with his early death. After dealing with the death of his uncle and the near death of his estranged brother from cancer, Mitch uses every opportunity to talk to Morrie about life's problems.