The Five People You Meet In Heaven Summary

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

According to "The Five People You Meet in Heaven", Eddie stated a quote that impacted me due to its vast quantities of meanings behind the words he had said to Tala, the fifth person Eddie meets. He deeply said, "I was sad because I didn't do anything with my life. I was nothing. I accomplished nothing. I was lost. I felt like I wasn't supposed to be there." The reason this quote impacted me was mainly because at one point in my life, I felt that I had accomplished nothing from my hard work. For example, if I passed a test or quiz with an excellent grade, I did feel joyful and exhilarated, but at the same time, I felt that I could do better. Whenever I was required to study for anything, I sometimes over exaggerated the circumstances and situation that I needed to deal with, so I decided to study for a large amount of time, which became unhealthy and unsanitary for me. Many people in the world, however, struggle and continue with their lives with a wide variety of conflicts. Moreover, some citizens always think negatively about every situation, and they end up harming themselves at the end. This is known as pessimism, and it is largely increasing. This is a factor that came to my mind when I read this quote. Around the world, teens and adults tend to think that they have not accomplished anything, which may, in fact, be caused by an endless count of reasons. Domestic abuse, lack of care, no love, and hatred are some of the countless reasons of why humans feel like they don’t belong in this world or have achieved nothing at all. This list could not be made if I haven’t read Eddie’s quote.

There are simple things in life that could mean something so important, yet our society doesn’t seem to notice it. Well, in this novel, it is the perfect example of that. Throughout the book, The Five You Meet In Heaven, an eye catching quote was stated. The author Mitch Albom mentions, “Nothing important. No bank statements. No insurance policies. Just a black bow tie, a Chinese restaurant menu, an old deck of cards, a letter with an army medal, and a faded Polaroid of a man by a birthday cake, surrounded by children.” Each of those items represent an important character in the novel. For some background knowledge, The Five People you Meet in Heaven is a novel written by Mitch Albom. The story is based upon the main character who is an old man named Eddie and has worked on the Ruby Pier all his life. His life comes to an end when he tries to save a little girl from a collapsed cart of a ride, but the cart lands on Eddie and kills him. Eddie then arrives in heaven and travels through five different environments to learn lessons from five different people. These five people were important in his life. Everything works out in the end and he is reunited with his one true love, Marguerite, at the pier with lovely children galloping all around. So from that quote and reading this inspiring novel, conclusions can be made of who represents each item. These objects symbolize important moments that have happened in Eddie’s life.

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 theme or plot structure here is going through time but already knowing what the future holds, in the book The Five People You Meet in Heaven, there are some similar qualities. This takes place in the 1920s with an 83 year old man named Eddie who’s job is maintaining rides at an amusement park. In this Eddie risks his life in order to save a little girl who was in danger while on a ride, there were others on the ride too and luckily they got out safe. He saved these people on the day of his birthday, but unfortunately, it would be his last. Eddie makes his way to heaven, but has to meet five people in order to know how this was his fate. A “blue man” would guide him to the people he would be encountering. “Each of us was in your life for a reason” (Mitch 21). Just as each person Billy met in his lifetime served a purpose. Without Roland Weary Billy would not have lived, and without the people Eddie met he would not have faced his true fate. Vonnegut and Mitch both created excellent themes by taking a different path with their use of time travel and symbolism for each event that occurred in these men

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

In the book The Five People You Meet in Heaven, the word choice can relate to character. Word choice i found for character was, “Then he took a small wad of bills from his pocket and removed the only twenties he had… get your wife something new,” this makes Eddie a nice person. Another word choice i found was “Around and around the table they go, to their mother’s delight, as the clarinets lead the radio melody and the Romanian cousins clap around the final wisps of grilled steak evaporate into the party air.” that word choice making Eddie’s family close to one another because they celebrate together. There can also be word choice for setting. Word choice i found for setting was, “misty pumpkin shade. This making the story at that time when

Across all genres of storytelling, characterization is used as a window into the soul of the reader. Characters connect to real life based off of their problems, emotions, and how they resolve their conflicts. This is true of characterization in the novel, The Five People You Meet in Heaven, written by Mitch Albom. The main character, Eddie, demonstrates dynamic characterization throughout the novel. Readers can empathize his general conflicts and how he resolves them. Eddie can also be perceived as a character with many physical and emotional traits. In these ways, the main character in the novel, The Five People You Meet in Heaven, has numerous and significant character traits that impacts the plot of the story.

Coincidences do not exist, and everything is connected. Actions may seem unimportant and inconsequential, but in reality, every action has a reaction on someone or something else. This fact is evident through the quote, “That there are no random acts. That we are all connected. That you can no more separate one life from another than you can separate a breeze from the wind” (Albom, 48). This quote appears in Mitch Albom’s novel, The Five People you Meet in Heaven, which explores the notion that every story is connected, even without knowing the person. This is displayed through The Blue Man’s death, Marguerite’s car crash, and Tala’s death. Actions, small or large, can effectuate an immense chain reaction.

The Five People You Meet in Heaven talks about Eddie, an old man in his eighties working as a maintenance officer at somewhere he did not want, and yet where he could never leave. Eddie dies in a tragic accident trying to save a young girl, and awakes in heaven. In heaven, Eddie meets 5 people, each of which told him something about his life, allowing him to reflect.

Joseph explains that within each of these levels, there is a particular person that Eddie must meet. Whether Eddie knows the person or not is unimportant. The importance, however, lies in the fact that each of the people that Eddie will soon meet on his journey have either had a significant impact on his life and/or he has made such impact on theirs. For instance, upon the conversation Eddie has with Joseph in the first level of heaven, Eddie comes to understand that he, himself, is actually responsible for Joseph’s death. Joseph informs Eddie that when Eddie was just a young boy, he threw a baseball to his brother; a baseball which landed in the middle of the road, causing Joseph to have a heart attack while driving his car and pass away.

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 by Mitch Albom is a reimagining of what is most typically thought of the afterlife. The book, as the title suggests, is specifically about the five people the main character, Eddie, meets in heaven and how his life on earth impacted them and how they, in turn, impacted his life. While Eddie learns many lessons as he progresses through his journey in heaven, one lesson in particular is more important than the rest. This lesson can be summed up in its entirety with what the Blue Man, the first of five people Eddie meets, tells him: “There are no random acts. That we are all connected.

Title (6) The Five People You Meet In Heaven by Mitch Albom is a beautifully written novel that portrays the ever-so-ordinary life of Eddie “Maintenance,” a worker at Ruby Pier who is beloved in the hearts of most but dies an untimely death from a falling ride while trying to save a little girl, Amy or Annie. He doesn’t have a family, or any close friends, and yet the people of the pier, the beachgoers, are so used to seeing him there that he becomes a part of their vacation. The book focuses on Eddie’s afterlife and the five people he meets, and how they affected him. They may have seemed insignificant in life, but don’t we all?