"Tuesdays With Morrie" Synthesising "The Human Touch"

"The Human Touch"

'Tis the human touch in this world that counts,

The touch of your hand and mine,

Which means far more to the fainting heart

Than shelter and breand and wine;

For shelter is gone when the night is o'er,

And bread lasts only a day,

But the touch of the hand and the sound of the voice

Sing on in the soul alway.

Both the poem "The Human Touch" written by Spencer Michael Free, and the novel "Tuesdays With Morrie" written by Mitch Albom, both tend to deal with the impact people can make on others. Spencer Michael Free emphasis's " 'Tis the human touch in this world that counts, The touch of your hand and mine..." In the novel "Tuesdays With Morrie", Morrie is a very remarkable person. Everyone who meets Morrie, can't help but be touched by him. Once Morrie had passed away, he left his legacy behind. Anyone who knew Morrie will remember him for who he was, and what he had done. Morrie was never anyone but himself. He was a very compassionate person.

When Morrie was growing up he was living a devastating hard life, which is hard to believe considering how is personality is now. Morrie grew up with a single father, because his mother passed away at a young age, and his family was very poor, and having to work extremely hard, and get only little pay. While in "The Human Touch" poem, Spencer highlights " Which means far more to the fainting heart, than shelter bread and wine..." This is explaining the fact that even though Morrie has gone through all of this misery in his youth, he still is a giving person, more than a taking one. He has always gives more than takes, and this is what he is trying to tell Mitch throughout the whole book. You don't need the newest blackberry, or a huge mansion, for everyone to love you. It is the person you are everyone falls in love with. Morrie has none of those things, and he is loved by everyone he meets.

At the end of the novel "Tuesdays With Morrie", Morrie finally gets to Mitch's heart and gets Mitch to start making some changes in his life. For a example, after Morrie had died, Mitch picks up the phone and calls his brother that he hasn't talked to in ages. Mitch and his brother had become very distant after his brother was diagnosed with cancer, and moved to Spain. Morrie had touched Mitch the first day they met in University, but Morrie had grabbed Mitch's' soul when they got back in touch again. Spencer Michael Free discusses " But the touch of the hand and the sound of the voice, Sing on in the soul alway". Comparing this quote to the novel basically describes everything that Morrie had done for Mitch. Mitch had grabbed Morrie's' hand and Morrie had guided Mitch back into the right direction. Morrie's' soul still remains here.