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A Literary Analysis Of Mitch Albom's The Five People You Meet In Heaven

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A Literary Analysis of Mitch Albom’s “The Five People You Meet in Heaven”
Introduction
If told simply, “The Five People You Meet in Heaven” would merely be a tale of a man who died while saving a child and went to heaven for it. However, that summary would fail to accurately describe this book by Mitch Albom, which is a tale that gives the reader a reason to give more thought on the way he or she touches other people’s lives. The journey through the book offers a view into the ways that we see the world and offers a chance to view it from the perspectives of other people with whom we interact. Therefore, in the same way, that the protagonist gets to experience a whole new awakening from his eye-opening experience, the reader also gains the chance to go through a similar internal journey and reach his or her own awareness.
Theme
The theme of this book is that life has a meaning and that every interaction with another person is part of a collective life that we all experience together rather than the products of our own life paths. As the protagonist, Eddie’s journey through the story shows that the strangers that he had encountered in the course of his life had each left a mark on his life and was thereby not as inconsequential as he had thought. These people shaped him into what he became and also taught him vital life lessons such as lost love and forgiveness. The transformation that Eddie underwent also helps to consolidate the theme of purpose in life by taking him
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