The Five People You Meet In Heaven By Mitch Albom

The title of the book is The Five People You Meet in Heaven written by Mitch Albon. The genre of the book is philosophical fiction meaning, you have beliefs about many things for instance in this book it’s god. It starts out at an amusement park on Ruby Pier but, as the book moves along and after Eddie dies there are multiple settings which are in each place of the five people he meets. The novel in a brief summary is as follows. He ends up dying trying to save a little girl on a hanging roller coaster and as soon as he makes contact with the little girl everything just crashes on top of poor Eddie. Then, he ends up going to five different places in heaven each place meeting a new person. The five people are the Blue Man, the Captain, Ruby, Marguerite (his wife who died due to sickness), and finally Tala (the girl who Eddie tried to save at Ruby pier). Eddie ends up learning many lessons and what the true meaning of life and love really is.

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The title caught my eyes in the list of recommendations which she sent me, as the idea of heaven and what happens after death has always been of interest to me. I am not religious nor would I say I’m atheist, as I do not believe nor disbelieve in ‘god’, and so religion and heaven are topics which struck me with fascination. In the end The Five People You Meet in Heaven ended up being beyond my expectations. I had expected Eddie to meet five angels or godly figures, but the novel took me by surprise in having Eddie rather encounter five people, whose lives at some point intersected with his which I think, made for a better

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He also felt very cal very calm. He meets this guy named the Blue moon who works at Ruby pier slideshow. During the conversation Eddie find out that he is dead and he has gone to heaven.

In the book “The Five People You Meet in Heaven”, it talks about one man’s life and death and how it all led to that. As an old man he isn’t happy with his life and doesn’t understand the point of his death, but going into the book it brings out many characters who help to teach him the reasons why. Going into heaven, Eddie learns the importance of many things and understands his life has a meaning.

“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.

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.

People picture an afterlife based on their spiritual beliefs, but nobody ever thinks about having their life explained to them, or whether or not they will be punished for the sins they have committed, or rewarded for their good deeds. In the novel, 5 People You Meet In Heaven, the main character, Eddie, has his life and purpose explained to him through five different people that he has either affected or people that have had an affect on him. Eddie has his entire life explained to him by these people through five lessons, specifically forgiveness, that everyone affects one another, love, sacrifice, and his purpose in life. There were three people’s lessons that stand out as being the most important.

In Mitch Albom’s novel, The Five People You Meet in Heaven, there are five significant events. The Blue Man informs Eddie that he will meet five people in heaven who were each in his life for a reason; this will help him understand his life on earth. The first person he meets in heaven is The Blue Man. The Blue Man had borrowed his friend's car to practice his driving, Eddie's baseball bounces into the street and he runs into the street after it. The Blue Man slams on his breaks and yanks at the wheel, but he managed to regain control of the car.

Eddie is a wounded war veteran, who believes he has lived an uninspired life. He works at a seaside amusement park fixing broken rides. On his 83rd birthday, he is killed when he tries to save a little girl from a falling cart. When he awakes in the afterlife, he learns that heaven is not a destination. It's a place where your life is explained to you by five people, some of whom you knew, others who are strangers. From childhood to soldier to old age, Eddie's five people revisit their connections to him on earth, illuminating the mysteries of his "meaningless" life. The first person he meets is The Blue Man. The Blue Man informs Eddie that he is going to meet five people in heaven whose lives he has somehow affected. The Blue Man was a sideshow worker at Ruby Pier when Eddie was a child. He was killed as a result of Eddie running in the street

In The Five People You Meet in Heaven, author Mitch Albom talks about the life of Eddie who is a crippled World War II veteran who worked at an amusement park. Instead of just revealing to us that Eddie dies in the end, he decides to tell us of his inevitable death in the very beginning. As we read through the book, it flashes back in between his years on Earth and his current time in Heaven. The five people that he meets are all connected to him in some way and they each teach him a different lesson. These lessons are some of the notifiable themes that occur in this book.

When Eddie was younger, he received a baseball for a birthday gift. He ran across the street and almost got hit by a car, the person in the car had a heart attack and died. Eddie angrily protests the injustice of the fact that his childhood stupidity resulted in a man's death. The Blue Man simply explains, "fairness does not govern life and death. If it did, no good person would ever die young” (48). Eddie is startled and then goes on about how they didn’t even know the blue man. He states that he and the Blue Man barely knew each other despite the fact that their fates were so intertwined. The Blue Man just says “strangers are just family you have yet to know” (49). Eddie is still confused on why he is meeting the blue man, he asked what good came out of what had happened, and the blue man replies “You lived”. The lesson Eddie had learned while in heaven was that every life has a purpose, even if that purpose does not become clear until after death. He didn’t realize what he had done but he had to come to reality and realize that he can’t change the past and had to suffer the consequences and the guilt of the blue man’s

The Five People You Meet In Heaven, by Mitch Albom, follows a maintenance man through the experiences he encounters in life and after his death. Eddie, the main character, loses his life in a heroic attempt to save a little girl, who was standing right where an amusement park ride was about to fall. A bright light blinds Eddie, and without confirmation of whether his attempt was successful or not, he finds himself in an unknown place, better known as heaven. During his time here, he meets the five people who had a significant impact on his life.

The author of the book, The Five People You Meet in Heaven, is Mitch Albom (“The Real Uncle Eddie”). Mitch Albom was born on May 23, 1958 in Passaic New Jersey. He is son of Ira and Rhoda Albom and husband of