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Character Analysis: The Five People You Meet In Heaven

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The Five People You Meet in Heaven Life lessons are mistakes you have learned from and can apply to your life the next time you go through something similar. There are a variety of lessons that one can learn(or that i learned?) from the book such as forgiveness, the impact you have, everybody has to make sacrifices, and you can choose how you deal with situations you are faced with. Forgivenesses is an easy act of being willing to forgive someone of their actions. One thing I learned from this book is that staying angry isn't helpful. Being angry at someone only harms you and not the person you are angry with. "Holding anger is a poison. It eats you from the inside...hatred is a curved blade"(Albom, p141). Once someone lets go of a grudge …show more content…

Some people, like Eddie, may not realize they impact other people. Eddie helped a lot of people which he didn't realize until he died. Eddie feels like he had lived a useless life. He fixed amusement rides at Ruby Pier and didn't feel important. Eddie was the guy that fixes rides so they don’t break. Eddie died a hero by saving a girl's life from a falling ride cart. Little kids would come up to Eddie and beg him to ride a ride with them. When he said yes, a huge smile appeared on their faces. All the little things Eddie did impacted other people whether he knew or not. "Each affects the other, and the other affects the next, and the world is full of stories, but the stories are all one"(Albom, p196). I have younger siblings and I influence them even when I don't know that I do. Things I get to do because I am older, they want to do. Sometimes they copy my actions and my words because they want to be like me, and I influence how they act. People have to make sacrifices and sometimes it may cost them. "Sacrifice, you made one. I made one. We all make them… Sacrifice is a part of life"(Albom, p93). The second person Eddie meets in Heaven is his captain from the war. Eddie's captain shot him in the leg so that Eddie wouldn't die trying to save someone in a fire. The sacrifice the captain made saved Eddie's life. I have had many times when I had to sacrifice a good portion of my time to help a friend going through a hard time. Although sacrifices

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