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

Eddie decided to leave for the war after his 18th birthday, he went through many horrifying events and the toughest of the war but was able to come home alive. He came home injured though. During Eddie’s last night in war he was shot in the knee. The bullet was wedged in between bones and even after surgery Eddie was told his leg was permanently injured. The second person Eddie meets in heaven is his captain from when he was in the war. Eddie never knew who or what shot him until his captain says “‘Because I was the one…who shot you’” (p.86). Eddie reacts in a normal manner filled with hate, anger, rage, and sadness. “’My…leggggg!’ Eddie seethed. ‘My life!”(p.88). Eddie throughout the novel has always blamed his leg from stopping his dreams. His leg prevented him from becoming an engineer, leaving Ruby Pier, and doing almost any activity he once enjoyed. As Eddie thought about his leg he realized “His running was over…worse, for some reason, the way he used to feel about things was over too. He withdrew. Things seemed silly or pointless. War had crawled inside of Eddie in his leg and in his soul” (p.85). If it wasn’t enough that he was shot in the leg that night another memory had always haunted

Turning against the world of drugs and violence, Eddie vows to take the straight and narrow path, even if it means struggling at temporary manual labor jobs. So when he takes a landscaping job for a white man across town thinking that god had finally heard him, the man's truck is stolen from the front of Eddie's apartment causing yet another problem to add on. He hid for hours and days drinking because he really liked his job with the white man and was afraid of what might happen to him. Although getting the truck stolen from him kinda seems like a big deal, it is not because that sort of thing happens daily in the streets of fresno that he lived by, it was almost like that was something normal to him. So when his aunt gets home she reminds him yet another time that his cousin died only this time a gun came with the tortillas she would try and persuade him with the avenge the death of her son.

Through Eddies school experience got off to a rough start with many fights and comments about his parents and their Asian culture. He never took comments against him very well, he fought back many times with physical violence. He had to change schools many times through his adolescence because

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 book The Five People You Meet In Heaven is about a kid named Eddie that strives to keep Ruby Pier a safe place to ride and who is also a crippled veteran. People used to call him Eddie maintenance because he had a tag that said maintenance. Eddie dies at the age of eighty-three. Eddie had an assistant who was named Dominguez who also help keep the rides safe. One day at Ruby Pier the ride Freddy’s Free Fall malfunctioned because a passenger lost their keys on ride which made the tilt over and hang off the track. Then when Eddie seen that the cart was hanging off the edge he tried to tell the people who work at the ride how to fix the ride but it was too late then the cart fell. Standing directly under the cart was a little girl and when

Instead she holded up in her room, smoking meth, drinking [...] Eddie and his 12-year-old sister gabrielle, had no one to guide them”. Edde survived by seeking out new relationships with the motel manager and his cousin Jonathan Levario creating a fresh loving relationship that was not present within his own family even Jonathan later died of acute heroin and meth toxicity. Because loving relationships are one of the best experiences to have, they are also difficult to maintain. Imagine bottles of liquor and bags of cocaine and other drugs Eddie’s parents indulged themselves into satisfying their

     The lesson that the Sargent had to teach Eddie was about sacrifice. “Sometimes when you sacrifice something precious you’re not really losing it, you’re just passing it on to someone else.” (94) In other words, the Sargent sacrificed Eddie’s leg to save his life, and he also sacrificed his life in order to preserve the lives of his

Coincidentally, the little girl who taught this lesson was at the military camp as well. She got trapped in one of the burning buildings, and that was who Eddie saw and almost died trying to save. Horribly, she burned to death and when Eddie was informed of that he felt a ton of guilt. While in Heaven, he remembered feeling a little girl’s hands as he died and when he asked Tala if he had saved the girl in time she told him that he did. When Eddie died, he was feeling Tala’s hands grabbing his, and he saved the girl who was standing under the ride by pushing her out of the way. Even though he had only briefly met this little girl before and didn’t really know her, he still saved her because all life has

end of the play, he leaves Earth with a better heart and heads to God’s paradise, known as

The thought provoking novel, The Five People You Meet in Heaven, portrays that closure and meaning for life can be discovered even after death. After dying, Eddie the protagonist goes to heaven where he meets five people, whose own lives are ultimately affected by his decisions. Whether those five people were family or complete strangers, each life is shown to be inter-connected with Eddie 's, as they explain to him his journey and life’s purpose. The novel The Five People You Meet in Heaven, by Mitch Albom, demonstrates that whether intended or not, actions do have consequences and these, can lead to feelings of sacrifice, regret and forgiveness.

After Eddie meets his fifth person, Tala, he understood that his life had meaning. Tala brings him back to the place in the war and shows him that she was stuck in the house that he set on fire. She gave him a stone and told him to wash all her scars away to show that she moved on and forgave him for killing her. She shows him that all life has a purpose no matter how long or short it is. He knows that when he died he was holding onto a little kids hands. He thought it was Amy or Annie, the little girl he saved from being killed. Instead Tala shows Eddie that it was her hands pulling him up into heaven. The whole time Eddie was in heaven and with his four other people, he did not understand that he lived until then for a reason or that his life and his death was not a waste. Eddie learns that because he stayed there his whole life and didn’t move like he wanted to, he saves a child’s life. He accepts his death and is at peace with everything that has happened to him.

Throughout the novel, Eddie also can be exemplified as a sympathetic character. sympathetic characters are when readers feel sympathy for throughout a story. The reader can feel empathy for Eddie, when the author describes the pain of Eddie’s gunshot wound. The pain was described to be unbearable and the description of the event of the gunshot pains a morbid picture in the reader’s mind. During Eddie’s time as a soldier in World War II, any reader can feel an astonishing amount of sympathy for Eddie. During, Eddie’s time as a soldier, he experienced, “A piercing pain ripped through Eddie's leg. He screamed a long, hard curse then crumbled to the ground. Blood was spewing below his knee. Plane engines roared. The skies lit in bluish flashes. He lay there, bleeding and burning, his eyes shut against the searing heat, and for the first time in his life, he felt ready to die,” (Albom 84). The reader can comprehend Eddies suffering and pain. Eddie was on the ground, in a war zone hurt and slowly dying. Readers can feel a lot of sympathy for when Eddie wanted to let go of the world and die. Before Eddie’s death, he ran under a falling amusement park ride to save a little girl, Eddie

At some point in everyone’s life we experience thoughts about death, whether they’re positive or negative depends on their outlook on the afterlife. While some view death as only the beginning of their eternal life, others view it as the absolute end. But since this is not scientifically proven, throughout history many authors have been concerned and curious with the uncertainties about the afterlife. Life after death is known mostly through faith, the imagination must make up for what lies beyond. Therefor authors and poets express their beliefs about death through their literary works. Death is something that is very scary to think of, but it will all happen to us at one point or another. This relates to the novel The Five People You Meet in Heaven, the novel follows the protagonist Eddie, throughout his journey through heaven and finds the purpose of the people he meets there. Death plays a prevalent role in the life of Eddie and death made him learn his values and his purpose in life. The

There is a meaning to every action in life. No story goes unheard. The Five People You Meet in Heaven is a novel by Mitch Albom about a man named Eddie and the story of his life as he travels through heaven. Eddie is learning all the lessons that he did not learn during his life through the 5 people that he is meeting during his journey to his final destination in heaven. Months before Eddie’s death, there was a boy named Nicky who lost his car key on a ride called Freddy’s Free Fall. This key was slowly cutting into the cable of the ride which ultimately killed Eddie. This goes to show the narrator's theory that “No story sits by itself. Sometimes stories meet at corners and sometimes they cover one another completely, like stones beneath

The Five People You Meet In Heaven by Mitch Albom is a story about a man named Eddie who dies and subsequently goes through a self discovery journey in heaven, meeting five people who help him to reflect on his life and eventually shed all his earthly worries and misgivings. While all the people he meets in heaven are important, the last person he meets, a little girl he accidently kills during his time in Philippines named Tala, is the most important person he meets. One might think that his wife, Marguerite, is the most important person he meets in the afterlife, but this is simply not the case. It might be true that Marguerite was important to Eddie in life, it is Tala that is the single most important person Eddie meets out of all of them. This is because she had the most impact on Eddie, in life and death, she helps show him that his life on Earth and more specifically on Ruby Pier was not meaningless or worthless, and she is the final step before he can end his journey and enter his own personal heaven.