The Five People You Meet In Heaven Short Story

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

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