The Five People Eddie Meet In Heaven

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 author Mitch Albom incorporates sacrifice which is a big part of being a brothers keeper in The Five People you Meet in Heaven. Eddie was in war for a short period of time, during this time The Captain becomes his keeper because he shot himself in the leg to protect Eddie, as a captain he should have done this. He teaches him that grieving is the only way out of a tough situation, similar to the one he is in. Eddie does not recognize the reasoning behind why he did what he did. The Captain explains to Eddie, "Sacrifice, you made one. I made one. We all make them. But you are angry over yours. You kept thinking about what you lost… You didn’t get it. Sacrifice is a part of life." (Albom 93). By doing this it shows his bravery, loyalty and companionship towards Eddie. He shot Eddie in the leg so Eddie would not die in the burning tent. Even though he sacrificed his life for Eddies he was

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.

Lesson number one: “No life is a waste,” (Albom 50). Eddie’s first encounter was in heaven with The Blue Man. He explains to Eddie that when he was a young boy he killed him. This happened when Eddie ran in front of his car resulting in a heart attack. Eddie responds by saying “I never killed you, ok?” (Albom 60). Eddie meets many people throughout his life. Each relationship taught him a special lesson on how life goes by quick and make the best of it. “The only time we waste is the time we spend thinking we are alone”(Albom 67). This represents when you grow up you should spend your time with friends and family.

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

The fourth person Eddie met in heaven was his wife, Marguerite. She had dark hair, dark eyes and was wearing a long lavender bridesmaids dress with a stitched straw hat. She was holding a basket filled with candy-covered almonds and looked to be in her 20s. Years ago at Ruby Pier Eddie met his "One true love snapshot," Marguerite. They shared a special love that was deep, quiet and irreplaceable. Marguerite always loved children but she was unable to bear them and always wanted to adopt a child. But one day while Marguerite was driving two male teenagers dropped a beer bottle on her car causing her windshield to break which created an even bigger and horrifying accident. She was then rushed to the hospital and the thought of adopting a child

Eddie came to peace with his life and his death. Throughout his life he felt like he was stuck at Ruby Pier, unhappy and doing the same thing over and over again. When he gets to heaven he does not understand why he died. He thinks his life was boring and unimportant and his death was a waste because he does not even know if he saved Amy or Annie. Going through his five people, each with a different lesson to help teach Eddie why certain things happened,

This side of the story is about a man who has fragile health and can’t afford for kids to run across the street to get a ball. “A man is behind the wheel of a Ford Model A, which he has borrowed from his friend to practice driving.” “Suddenly a ball bounces across the street, and a boy come running after it.” “The car skids, the tires screech.” “The man feels dizzy and his head drops, the automobile collides with another.” “The blood from his coronary arteries no longer flow to his heart.” ( pg. 25 5 people you meet in heaven). This relates to the quote because the more you read the quote the meaning changes. Each person is linked to another in some way shape or form. This is just some of what the quote has to talk

Throughout his life, Eddie is racked with guilt due to the unknown shadow figure he saw in the burning building, whilst trying to escape the prisoner of war camp. When faced by Tala in heaven, he is confronted with the conformation of her death “You burn me. You make me fire.” (199). Once aware of the consequences of his actions, Eddie immediately asks Tala for her forgiveness, “I killed you, I KILLED YOU…forgive me” (201). I am able to relate to this through my own experiences of asking for forgiveness from other people. Eddie was faced with the need for forgiveness due to him causing the death of a young girl; my lesser experience of this comes through my behaviour of bullying other people throughout my primary school education. Through understanding the impacts this may have had on other people and the remorse felt due to my actions, I was able to apologise and ask for their forgiveness. Through the forgiveness of Tala and telling Eddie “You make good for me”(204), he is able to begin to also forgive himself for his behaviour, which ultimately lead to the death of the young girl. I connect to this through others’ forgiveness of me for my behaviour and therefore allowing me to move on from my mistakes and

The scenario mostly takes in a Pier where Eddie spent most of his life called Ruby Pier. After he died though, the place in each of his five people’s he meet in heaven. The story starts at the Ruby Pier. Eddie grow up convenient to Ruby Pier because of his father worked there and they lived at Ruby Pier was an significant scenario or place that Eddie’s childhood require as a maintenance man.

The Five People You Meet In Heaven, by Mitch Albom is an explanation of life, starting with death. In this story, Albom starts when life ends, and this has plenty of symbolism once analysed further. In many ways, Death can teach the greatest lesson: Life. Death teaches us our purpose on Earth, it signifies the effect that our lives had on people around us, but more importantly, Death leaves behind a hole that cannot be filled. In Five People, Albom conveys this wonderfully, combining a myriad of different lessons that showed Eddie his purpose on Earth. Many times, his life was changed by somebody else, and at the same time, he changed many lives. Each lesson that is described signifies an important part of his life, and they all come together into the vast melting pot of life, like a jigsaw puzzle to explain Eddie’s life. These lessons are effective mainly through their rhetoric, but also through the message behind them. Eddie learnt his final lessons in life’s greatest classroom: Heaven.

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

The story would then show his journey towards achieving a state of perfection in order to enter heaven. All the lessons Eddie learns would be necessary teachings for him to live in communion with Christ. The end of the movie, when Eddie finds himself at Ruby Pier, after being lead through the water by Tala (which would symbolize his re-birth), would be representative of the final stage of Purgatory and the first stage of heaven, where Eddie can realize the effect he had on people in his life. The first person Eddie meets in heaven is the Blue Man. The Blue Man was part of the freak show at Ruby Pier.

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

Eddie was 83 years old when he died. He met a lot of people in his life and he lived a long life. He grew up in Ruby Pier, an amusement park that Eddie later worked at. He got married, served in the army, then work at this amusement park for the rest of his life. This park was also where he died.