Mitch Alborn's The Five People You Meet In Heaven

The novel, “Afterlife” by Gary Soto was mostly about how this guy named Chuy who was killed in a Club, Club Estrella to be specific. He was killed in the men’s bathroom for complimenting someone else’s shoes, which were yellow. He got stabbed 3 times, and was left there till dying. He then became a ghost, a ghost who couldn’t be heard, seen or touched. He could see everything that was going on, but couldn’t do anything about it. After the ambulance had taken him away, he was already dead, or i mean the body was already dead. When his parents got the news Chuy went to visit them to say one last goodbye, he also visited his school, and the girl he used to like for a long time. He then found this girl named Crystal, who had killed herself taking

Differences and Similarities of The five people you meet in heaven by Mitch Albom. This section of the story that we read was about the main character Eddie. He died and is now in Heaven going on with his journey. He meets 5 people, but the second person was his caption from when he was in the war. He got to see how everything happened, with the caption and why things went the way they did. Some differences from the book and movie are in the book Eddie looked at a dog tag with the name on it, but instead in the movie he looked at a helment with the name on it. Another difference was in the old in the movie even though in the book he was young, like he was in the war. Some similarities between two are that his second person is the caption. Another

Benjamin Banneker, son of former slaves, writes a letter to Jefferson conveying his opinion of slavery. Banneker poses his position of the topic on slavery by politely criticizing Jefferson on his treatment of the slaves. His repetitive routine of religious terms and phrases that are familiar to Jefferson are used against him to ensure the feel of ultimate guilt. Banneker first sets his sights on the religious “blessing of Heaven” when the colonists won the Revolutionary War. The writer suggests the win to be “mercifully received” as if it was a miracle from God in Heaven. Banneker proclaims that another one of Heaven’s “blessings” was the ability to write the “true and valuable doctrine” which is to be “recorded and remembered” as the Declaration of Independence. He states that our unalienable rights were “entitled by nature.”

The novel Ordinary Resurrections, written by Jonathan Kozol, focuses on an area in south New York called the Bronx, which is a poor community composed of mainly African-American and Hispanic people. The author, Jonathan Kozol, focuses the novel specifically on the children who live in a section of the South Bronx called Mott Haven, which is America’s “epicenter for the plague of pediatric and maternal AIDS” (Kozol 3) and is “one of the centers of an epidemic of adult and pediatric asthma.” (Kozol 3). The people of Mott Haven do not have sufficient access to healthcare, live in extreme poverty, and are malnourished.

The perspective of the two stories allow the reader to perceive the sense of proximity the protagonist has with their victim.

Change is constant with a society that is always recreating itself. From the Enlightenment period to the Industrial Revolution there is a massive difference when comparing these two societies of their norms and daily life.

But, the way the author used symbolism, foreshadowing, and relatable quotes stood out to me the most. When I was reading and even after, I found myself making connections and thinking deeper into the books

are analogous because of they both follow The Hero’s Journey, the characters, and the protagonist’s personality.

First and foremost, the fiction and nonfiction aspect comes into play when talking about these two specific books.

Bad Boy is a memoir about a kid who experienced a lot as he grew up. Bad Boy is a memoir that took place in the 1900s when segregation and all that took place. It was hard to grow up back then and in the memoir it says some of the things that were normal back then but now it’s scary.

In this paper, I will review Charles Ryrie’s book The Holy Spirit. I will detail what I feel the book is about. I will emphasize various points given by the author that stood out to me. Finally, I will give my personal evaluation of the book.

In Jill Lepore’s chapter “Resurrection” from The Mansion of Happiness, she discusses her encounter with Robert Ettinger and his scientific work on “resurrecting” people who have died through the freezing of bodies. According to the Christian Theological teaching of Jesus’s Death and Resurrection, his act of dying on the cross and rising saved us from our sins and overcame the power of death. Just as Jesus was raised from the dead, there was a promise for us, our souls, to be brought to everlasting life in the Kingdom of God when the time comes for each of us. Before death, we are called to live out the Kingdom of God on Earth to build relationships, do good works, and fulfill whatever drives us to live. What makes all of this valuable is that we know our time is not infinite on earth. The idea of cryonics and being able to live forever destroys the significance of time on Earth and the value of what it means to live.

“A mother’s love for her child is like nothing else in this world. It knows no law, no pity, it dates all things and crushes down remorselessly all that stands in its path,” (Agatha Christie, The Last Seance) embodies the bond between Tony and his mother, Al, who permits Tony to represent himself in an artistic fashion by allowing him to come to work with her at the Kitty Kat Club, a local club where his mother exotically dances at, so he can use her coworkers as models. In Gary Paulsen’s novella, the Glass Cafe or the Stripper and the State; How My Mother Started A War With the System That Made Us Kind of Rich and a Little Bit Famous, Tony, a 12 year old boy, whose illustrations of his mother’s coworkers, who are strippers, are released in

“Heaven is for Real” written by Lynn Vincent is based on a true story of a four year old son of a pastor. It contains 27 chapters. This young little boy named Colton Burpo slips into consciousness and visits heaven. He survives in his illness and starts talking about what happens to him when he was out of conscious. He tells some unbelievable moments that his family can’t identify if it is true or not.

Primarily, Fahrenheit 451 and Red scarf girl can relate to some of my experiences. I also, identified with certain characteristics of my personality within both books. In particular, Clarisse McClellan, in Fahrenheit 451 was very easy to identify with. She is a very distinct character and her personality