The Five People You Meet

Every life has a meaning, some more prominent than others; while alive, everyone has impacted someone, even if they don’t know who or how. Eddie learned about his effect on The Blue Man and took responsibility for his death. In my opinion, the death was not entirely Eddie’s fault and was an accidental series of events that led to a tragedy. If anything, The Blue Man’s death was because of a father who mistreated his son. He was embarrassed by his son because he soiled his pants in the sweatshop, therefore, he shut him out of his life completely, which was the main reason for Joseph’s anxiety. The distress was the reason Joseph took Silver Nitrate, which seemed to be safe at the time, but caused his skin to turn blue. The poison

When you imaging heaven, what do you think it would be like? In this particular movie an elderly man named Eddie has a very unique experience of going to heaven, where he meets five people. Before he passed away, Eddie worked at an amusement park called Ruby Pier. When he was just a little kid, his dad worked there and he would go to work with him a lot, so he got to know the park very well. He ended up working as the maintenance man until he was 83 years of age. One day one of the rides broke down, and it was falling towards a little girl who Eddie tried to save. As he died, he felt the little girl's hands but he wasn’t sure if he saved her or not. While he is in the afterlife, he meets five different people who each have a lesson to teach him. Of those five people who he meets in heaven, the three most important are, the blue man, the war captain, and Tala.

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

“The Five People You Meet In Heaven” by Mitch Albom is a heartfelt story of a war veteran named Eddie who works at the Ruby Pier. On his 83rd birthday, Eddie is killed trying to save a little girl from the falling cart of a ride that malfunctioned. When Eddie goes to heaven, he meets five people that tell him different things about his life and teach him lessons. Within the book, there are many important symbols. The Ferris wheel and the ocean are two of these symbols that help contribute to a deeper meaning of the story.

Eddie is an old war veteran who works as a maintenance man at Ruby Pier, a seaside amusement park. On his birthday, Eddie goes through his everyday routine, checking up on the rides and day dreaming about his late wife Marguerite until he dies trying to save a little girl from a falling ride cart. The last thing Eddie remembers before going to Heaven is small hands in his hands. When Eddie wakes he finds himself back in Ruby Peir. The only difference is that he feels like a child again. While running around the pier, Eddie meets The Blue Man. The Blue Man tells Eddie about his life as a carnival attraction and how he dies. He learns that he accidentally killed the Blue Man when he was a child by running in front of his car. Eddie has to go

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.

While in heaven, Eddie first learns how his time in the military impacted the lives of his unit and his captain. He had immensely affected whether they had lived or died during their time as prisoners of war. Due to his quick thinking, Eddie was able to construct a diversion that gave him and his men an escape route. Eddie used his juggling skills to distract the guards resulting in their flee. Without Eddie’s assistance the men would most likely not have escaped. Unfortunately, their jailbreak also led up to the captain’s death. When the men were rushing out of the burning camp, Eddie believed he saw a person in the fire. He made several attempts to save whoever was still in the flames. This gave the captain no choice but to shoot his leg and then rush him to a nearby medical

Have you ever wondered what happens after your life on earth, do we fly into the sky and watch as the city around us continues to move without us or do we wake up to a white room waiting for something to happen or someone to come along? Well in Mitch Albom's, The Five People You Meet In Heaven, Albom describes every event that occurs to Eddie and introduces Eddie to his new surroundings. In the novel, The Five People You Meet in Heaven, readers are introduced to five people that teach Eddie five key lessons for heaven. The people Eddie is introduced to are The Blue Man, The Captain, Ruby, Marguerite,and Tala. Eddie meets each of these people at a random time and in a different point in his life. Every place he arrives at has some sort of

The first person Eddie met in heaven was the Blue Man. Eddie had only seen this guy a couple times in his life. One lesson the Blue Man taught Eddie was that one life affects another and that everyone is connected. On page 36 of The Five People You Meet in Heaven the Blue Man told Eddie that he was the one that killed him. Eddie said no I didn’t

The 5 People You Meet in Heaven The Five People You Meet in Heaven, by Mitch Albom is known for its great amount of symbolism throughout the book. As Eddie, the main character, was killed while he worked at Ruby Pier, before he could go to heaven and live a happy place, he had to meet five specific people. Symbolism is a greater sense of meaning to what is written, beyond what has been described. Mitch Albom uses symbolism to show how each person Eddie meets in heaven impacted him in some way or another.

This one act displays and connects to all of the themes--heaven, sacrifice, and reconciliation. Eddie sacrificed himself to save the girl, and because of this, Eddie was sent on a journey to heaven. On this journey, Eddie realizes the importance of forgiveness, and he must forgive and be forgiven in order to move on. If Eddie was in purgatory, the story would change in only one way: the title would be “The Five People You Meet in Purgatory”. Personally, I think the story makes more sense if Eddie is in purgatory.

In the movie Five People You Meet in Heaven, the main character, Eddie, is an old man that works at Ruby Pier. Ruby Pier is the place were his father worked when he was alive. He was lonely and looked sad most of the time. But, he loved the children and was always willing to help them if they seemed to struggle. As the day passed by, Eddie had no idea that he was about to die. And because of an unfortunate accident, while trying to save an innocent little girl, Eddie died. When Eddie got to heaven, he had no idea that he was even their! He felt young and alive once more and he could run and jump like he did once in his life.

From the moment my parents picked me up from school, I knew something was wrong. There was this uncomfortable silence hanging in the air as we got our food and sat down in Five Guys. My sister and I kept glancing around the table as we waited for someone to say something first. Finally, my mom broke the silence and I thought my world was crumbling down. I don’t even know how my sister felt in that moment, but I knew it was harder for her. Our mom was deployed to Japan for two years. In those two years, we’d have to look out for each other, but especially for our dad because he didn’t know the first thing about taking care of two girls on his own.

An age-old question that is always asked throughout history is, “What happens when we die?” It is a valid question that has brought on many compelling arguments, none of which can be confirmed or denied for obvious reasons. As of late, there is no way we can know what happens when we die, but that will not stop us from wondering and speculating. The movie titled The Five People You Meet in Heaven explores the possibility of the existence of a realm outside of our own in which all the decisions and actions we make while living culminate the grand arc of a person’s life. The main character, Eddie, encounters five people in the afterlife, and they each teach him some virtue of his past life.

"People think of Heaven as a paradise garden, a place where they can float on clouds and laze in rivers and mountains. But scenery without solace is meaningless." -Narrator on pg. 35 Everyone thinks of heaven as a place where people go when they pass away, they think of heaven as a place where the pearly gates are huge and you lounge around all day. But it is not exactly what it seems. The authors interpretation of Heaven is very different than most others Albom shows that Heaven is a process of “spiritual catharsis” instead of a “singular physical destination.” Eddie learns his journey into the afterlife will only progress if he is forced to deal with the emotions of his