The Five People You Meet in Heaven is Mitch Albom’s second book, after Tuesdays With Morrie. What made this book my chosen read, is the strong first impression this book made on me. In my life, there have been several books that made a change in me. The Five People You Meet in Heaven is one of those. The earlier stated Tuesdays With Morrie qualifies to be in that category, but its effect pales in the emotional shock this book gave me. The Five People You Meet in Heaven talks about Eddie, an old man in his eighties working as a maintenance officer at somewhere he did not want, and yet where he could never leave. Eddie dies in a tragic accident trying to save a young girl, and awakes in heaven. In heaven, Eddie meets 5 people, each of which told him something about his life, allowing him to reflect. …show more content…
Now, let me share how. Now, I have always had an unnatural obsession with the term Death, after reading The Book Thief, yet another of my “turning points”. The Five People You Meet in Heaven might be a fiction, but it shared with me something no non-fiction book can do. Consider this: you throw a stone. The stone does nothing to you, but in throwing it, you eventually take the life of another. That is what this book has shown me. The butterfly effect. Something people often do not believe, but is true all the same. Our actions, no matter how small, affect something, somewhere.
And it is these actions, which lead to Eddie’s, as well as our own 5 people. For is life nothing but a giant jumble of choices, all strewn across our lifetimes? The choice, whether to let something go, or to sacrifice something else for it. People always want to have everything, despite us knowing that it is a foolish desire. For to obtain something, another must be sacrificed. The blooming of a flower, requires the sadness of those around it. To allow a man to live, sometimes all must be taken away from
The book, The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom is a book full of reflection, life lessons, and experiences of the joys and sorrows that accompany life. The Five People You Meet in Heaven is about an old man named Eddie who meets his death after an accident at a theme park. On his path to heaven, Eddie meets five people from his life who he had an impact on, or who impacted him. These people teach Eddie important lessons before he is ready to move on. In the portion of the book about Eddie’s 2nd person, his captain, Eddie learns more about his life at war. The movie, The Five People You Meet in Heaven is very similar to the book at this part. In the section about war, in both the book and the movie, Eddie relives his experiences
The title of the book is The Five People You Meet in Heaven written by Mitch Albon. The genre of the book is philosophical fiction meaning, you have beliefs about many things for instance in this book it’s god. It starts out at an amusement park on Ruby Pier but, as the book moves along and after Eddie dies there are multiple settings which are in each place of the five people he meets. The novel in a brief summary is as follows. He ends up dying trying to save a little girl on a hanging roller coaster and as soon as he makes contact with the little girl everything just crashes on top of poor Eddie. Then, he ends up going to five different places in heaven each place meeting a new person. The five people are the Blue Man, the Captain, Ruby, Marguerite (his wife who died due to sickness), and finally Tala (the girl who Eddie tried to save at Ruby pier). Eddie ends up learning many lessons and what the true meaning of life and love really is.
Eddie the matenience man of Ruby Pier carnival seems like just typical old man, who struggles with the idea that he never lived up to his potential. However, after he dies, he is able to see his life through a different perspective, one of eternity, and realizes how unique and important his life has been. This closely echoes the truth found in the Catechism of the Catholic Church which says that only in heaven with Christ will we find our true identity and meaning of life. 1 Death is only the beginning for Eddie and his journey through the five “heavens” of people that his life has impacted demonstrates how intricately woven together every humanity is. As pilgrims, our view of suffering and day to day actions constricts our ability to see how God truly weaves human messiness together to create a beautiful tale of redemption. So, we must live for the destination, not for the journey, leaning on hope instead of complete understanding.
Many people share their life experiences with a written form of self expression. The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom shares the life story of a man named Eddie, who worked at an amusement work his entire adult life, following his dad's footsteps. Eddie lost his life by saving a girl and pushing her out of the way her. He meets five important people that he did not know would change his life forever. Eddie’s dissatisfaction with working at the amusement park proves that he was put there for a reason, illustrating the theme that you should not take life for granted.
The theme or plot structure here is going through time but already knowing what the future holds, in the book The Five People You Meet in Heaven, there are some similar qualities. This takes place in the 1920s with an 83 year old man named Eddie who’s job is maintaining rides at an amusement park. In this Eddie risks his life in order to save a little girl who was in danger while on a ride, there were others on the ride too and luckily they got out safe. He saved these people on the day of his birthday, but unfortunately, it would be his last. Eddie makes his way to heaven, but has to meet five people in order to know how this was his fate. A “blue man” would guide him to the people he would be encountering. “Each of us was in your life for a reason” (Mitch 21). Just as each person Billy met in his lifetime served a purpose. Without Roland Weary Billy would not have lived, and without the people Eddie met he would not have faced his true fate. Vonnegut and Mitch both created excellent themes by taking a different path with their use of time travel and symbolism for each event that occurred in these men
People influence others and they go off and influence someone else like an endless cycle full of different stories with people who’ve gone through different things and yet those stories are all linked together somehow and when one chapter ends another chapter starts because their story is not finished, if anything it is just the beginning and that’s what Eddie learned when it was his time to leave earth and start his new beginning in heaven. The novel,The Five People You Meet in Heaven, written by Mitch Album is about the five people Eddie meet in heaven and what impact they made in his life even when he didn’t even know it, the novel ends with Eddie and his wife Marguerite in each other’s arms with God saying “home”. The novel has a very prominent message that heaven isn’t where you go to forget the problems you’ve had on earth but help you understand those problems, while
People picture an afterlife based on their spiritual beliefs, but nobody ever thinks about having their life explained to them, or whether or not they will be punished for the sins they have committed, or rewarded for their good deeds. In the novel, 5 People You Meet In Heaven, the main character, Eddie, has his life and purpose explained to him through five different people that he has either affected or people that have had an affect on him. Eddie has his entire life explained to him by these people through five lessons, specifically forgiveness, that everyone affects one another, love, sacrifice, and his purpose in life. There were three people’s lessons that stand out as being the most important.
In Mitch Albom’s novel, The Five People You Meet in Heaven, there are five significant events. The Blue Man informs Eddie that he will meet five people in heaven who were each in his life for a reason; this will help him understand his life on earth. The first person he meets in heaven is The Blue Man. The Blue Man had borrowed his friend's car to practice his driving, Eddie's baseball bounces into the street and he runs into the street after it. The Blue Man slams on his breaks and yanks at the wheel, but he managed to regain control of the car.
The Five People You Meet in Heaven The thrilling fiction novel, The Five People You Meet in Heaven, written by Mitch Albom explores the afterlife of Eddie, a lifelong maintenance worker at the local pier. He was very dedicated to Ruby pier, for he worked there his entire life. In fact, Eddie died at work saving a little girl from a falling amusement ride. As Eddie heads to heaven, he meets five people who teach him important life lessons.
Eddie’s choices in The Five People You Meet in Heaven are usually characterized by how he felt as if he were a failure; Tala’s death was caused by the careless
One of the books i chose to read this week was “The five people you meet in heaven” by Mitch Albom. This reading is about an 83 year old man named Eddie who is a maintenance worker at an amusement park called “Ruby Pier”. Eddie unfortunately dies on his birthday and is brought to heaven where he meets five people. Each person that he meets in heaven, he feels a certain way weather or not it is his age that changes, feelings or scenery. The geography of Eddies afterlife is set mostly at “Ruby Pier”, this is where Eddie grew up and settled down later on in his life.
Mitch Albom’s “The five people you meet in heaven” is a phenomenal read. In contrast to most books, this novel begins with Eddie’s death. The most intriguing element Albom used was detailing Eddie’s life using the five people he met in heaven. This story could have easily been a biography on Eddie where his most memorable life events were listed. However, his story was told through five people, whom’s life was changed forever after meeting Eddie.
In The Five People You Meet in Heaven, by Mich Albon, the protagonist is a man in Eddie. His left leg has a bullet stuck under the knee from the war times, which left Eddie limping. At the beginning of the book Eddie suffers death from a falling roller coaster at age 83, trying to save a little girl. Soon enough, Eddie find himself in heaven, unsure of what to do next. He soon learns that you meet five people in heaven, which you, or they, have affected in some way.
In the book, Five People You Meet In Heaven by Mitch Albom, the story begins at the end of Eddie’s life. When Eddie gets to heaven, there are five people he meets that had an effect on his life. Eddie learns many lessons throughout his journey in heaven, but the number one lesson he learned was love. There are no random acts in a person’s life.
The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom is about an elderly man named Eddie, whose job is to repair rides at an amusement park called Ruby Pier. The novel starts on Eddie's last day on earth, during an accident with one of the rides a little girl is standing right under a falling cart and to save her, Eddie flings himself to her and pushes her out of harm's way sacrificing himself. During his first moments in heaven Eddie comes in contact with a blue man whom he learns about heaven from. The blue man explains to Eddie that in heaven you will meet with five people and each person will reflect upon your past life on earth and explain to you what you didn't understand about your own life and to bring you closure. As Eddie meets all five