Alternative+Ending

Rationale:

I chose to do an alternate ending because it would give me an opportunity to put a twist on the end of it. With doing an alternate ending I can make anything I want to happen become true. It will challenge my creativity and my ability to write something from a different perspective than it was originally written. This alternative will be written from the point of Morrie instead of fromMitch’s perspective.

My name is Morrie Schwartz and I have recently died due to ALS. I am sitting in heaven right now and I’m looking down on a funeral that is being held in honor of me. I have only just gone to heaven but I already feel like it’s where I belong. As I am looking in on my funeral I realize that no one will ever be able to see me or hear me down there but I listen to them as they speak about me anyways. As I am listening in on what they are saying about me I hear part of Mitch’s speech and it went a little like this “I am here today to honor and remember my good friend, and the best college professor Morrie Schwartz. Morrie was a man who was full of life and had some great advice that he gave me every Tuesday when I would go to visit him at his house. I went to visit Morrie once a week and it was always on a Tuesday, of course it’s because we are Tuesday people.” He paused for a moment and the crowd gave a slight chuckle and then realized that they were at a funeral and quickly became quite again. “I have known Morrie since I was in college he was the one professor that I always took every class that he taught. I loved Morrie and I loved to hear what he had to say about current events that are going around us today.” That was all it took, Mitch saying that he loved me and I broke down, I began to cry. I realized that I had cracked Mitch again I had gotten him to cry for the second time but this time he wouldn’t know that I was watching over him he wouldn’t know that I heard every word that he just said. I walked away from the scene and just sat down and had myself a good cry.