The Five People You Meet In Heaven By Mitch Albom

The second person Eddie meets is ‘the Captain’. He was a commanding officer for Eddie in the military. They served together for United States, a base located in the Philippines. The Captain was a serious person and came from a military family. He was a loyal soldier and to his troops he commanded. He showed Eddie that he was the one that shot him in the leg. Even though the shooting was a deliberate act, it actually saves Eddie’s life. The act kept Eddie from running into a burning house where he thought there was a child to save.

After his death, he was forced to review his life before he can enter Heaven. There were five moments he had to examine. Each of these moments offered meaning and they each connect well with healthcare. The first person he meets in heaven is The Blue Man. The Blue Man explains that Eddie was the reason he passed.

After Eddie found out all of the interesting things that he never knew about his father, he is now more accepting himself as a person and where he came from, as well as accepting where his father came

His second stop is where he meets his commanding officer of his world war II platoon. Eddie remembers being held captive along with his captain and four others. He also was the one responsible for coming up with a plan for them to escape. After they did that the captain told them to burn the place they were held captive but eddie ran back because he thought he saw a young girl, but a bullet was shot and hit him right in the knee. He learned the importance of sacrifice from the captain who then says that that it was him who shot eddie. He says that he had to sacrifice his knee in order to save his life. The captain then reveals that he died because he stepped on a landmine getting Eddie to safety, meaning he also made sacrifice.One his way out he advises Eddie to let go of his anger. The third stop is where he sees a vision of his father. He had flashbacks of the abuse he suffered from the hands of his father when he was drunk.then he meets Ruby who’s husband is the founder of Ruby Pier which was named after her. She offers him a new way to look at his father’s death. Eddie believed that his father died because he made a decision while drunk to jump into the freezing water and caught pneumonia, but really he was trying to save his friend mickey’s life. Mickey tried to kill himself after Eddie’s father caught him assaulting

She lets Eddie know even though he gambled all their money away she still loved him. Eddie resentful at himself for his wife’s early death, realizes that love lives forever. She tells him “Life has to end. Love doesn’t” (Albom 173). Finally Eddie reunites in heaven with Tala the young girl killed in the war. She explains to Eddie that she was the shadow he saw that was burned in the fire. “The nipa. Ina say be safe there. Wait for her. Be safe. The big noise. Big fire. You burn me” (Albom 187). She explains to Eddie he was meant to work at the Pier, to protect the

     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

Up until he met Tala, Eddie had the perception that his life was essentially meaningless. Eddie had held grudges against people and, in his opinion, not done all that he could with his life. Tala uses her own heaven to teach him the effects he has on others and how important it is for him to forgive. Tala says to Eddie, “You wash me.” Tala is covered in burn scars, because she was a victim of a fire in the Philippines, which Eddie and his men caused.

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

God tells him that he needs to pick his personal heaven as well as what age he wants to be, so Eddie chooses to be 33 years old again and back at his and Marguerite’s apartment as if to redo all the mistakes he’s made during that time. Next, God tells him the rules saying that he can’t change his heaven but he can change his age, he can leave to visit others but he can’t stay their long, and when he has to teach and share his story with someone he is not allowed to tell them how/when the died or who their next person is. Also, God tells him that he still isn’t done growing, their are still people he can learn from and people he can teach, so he has Eddie explore other people’s heaven. Adding this onto the story will help show that the even after death you can still influence people while the people you’ve influenced in the past go off a influence someone else. Furthermore, that is one way to enhance the ending as well as the

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

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

The first person that Eddie meets in heaven is the The Blue Man who he does not remember meeting or encountering in his life. The Blue Man tells Eddie that there are five people

Each of the five people has a lesson to teach Eddie, and to let him know that his life wasn't a waste. In the following, I will discuss of a quote from a lesson, and what significance it has to Eddie. The first person Eddie meets in heaven is the blue man. He first met him

The Five People You Meet in Heaven is a book by Mitch Albom that also had a movie made out of it. It is about Eddie who was killed while trying to save a little girl. After Eddie’s death he goes up to heaven and meets five people that had a large impact on his life. The second person that Eddie meets was his Captain when he helped with fighting the the Philippines. When meeting him Captain they look back at the time that they were taken prisoners on a small Philippine island.

The “Blue Man”, whose Heaven was Ruby Pier, taught Eddie how every one person's story is somehow tied to someone else's life in one way or another. For example how the blue man died. Eddie was a young boy playing catch in his yard when the ball made its way into the street, Eddie ran after it and dodged the grill of a truck. While Eddie may have been lucky to survive we now turn to the driver who had to pull into an alleyway having a heart attack. Or, Eddie's death. Death at an amusement park from a tragic accident? How so? A boy goes into the park planning for a night of fun, Once he is done there he goes to the parking lot to load up and head out. He searches his pockets for a key and comes up empty. Weeks later the news of a broken belt on the .