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Mitch is in a hotel room, flipping through channels when he sees Morrie on television. On this ABC news interview, Morrie is laughing about his illness and how he wants to make it an experiment, Mitch had no idea Morrie was even sick. When Mitch goes to visit Morrie, the scene begins the same as in the book, with Mitch finishing his business and pretending to look for his keys while Morrie waits in his wheelchair outside his house.

The original interview seemed real, and I didn't feel the one that Mitch saw on television seemed realistic. In the movie interview, Morrie didn't carry himself with a purpose like his time was slowly coming to an end. However, Morrie in the original interview spoke with knowledge and about things he wanted to accomplish before his time here was over.

I believe that watching the video clip is beneficial because it helps put a picture of Morrie in your head. After I watched the video clip and began reading again, Morrie to me seemed more real like in other books. When I can picture the characters as people, the book flows in my head like a movie. The movie helps people visualize Morrie's dependency on others and puts the condition that he's in into perspective. Also, the movie is not helpful because you already have pictures of the characters in your head. The people in the movie are most of the time totally different that what you originally pictured. The Mitch I pictured is not the same Mitch that was casted for this movie.