When Eddie Meets In Heaven

Many people share their life experiences with a written form of self expression. The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom shares the life story of a man named Eddie, who worked at an amusement work his entire adult life, following his dad's footsteps. Eddie lost his life by saving a girl and pushing her out of the way her. He meets five important people that he did not know would change his life forever. Eddie’s dissatisfaction with working at the amusement park proves that he was put there for a reason, illustrating the theme that you should not take life for granted.

People don’t realize the most important moments in life until they have passed, and they have time to look back on them and realize how these moments have shaped them. In “The Five People You Meet in Heaven” by Mitch Albom it tells the story of Eddie’s moments and how they have reflected and shaped his life. The three most important events in Eddie’s life are the day he meets Marguerite, the shadow he sees in the barn, and the day he is shot in the leg.

12 days after his death at his funeral he awaken from the grave and told everyone his journey to the afterlife and what he encountered from that trip. Er said when his soul left his body it went on a journey and when that came to an end, he arrived at a mysterious place at which there were two openings in the earth; they were near together, and over against them were two other openings in the heaven above. Then in between the two openings sat a table of judges who commanded the path of the souls to come. Now these openings showed both worlds after life, meaning they represented heaven and hell. One of the opens represented the showing the bright light of heaven and the peace and home like feeling that it gave off, making everyone want to go through that opening but it’s not up to us once again the lives we live chooses the path we take after life. Then in the other opening showed the deep and dark depths of hell and the pain and suffering that was engaged when your soul entered. Adding on, Er also learned that you were only in hell for a certain amount of time and that time is given to by the sins a person committed in their previous life. For instance, every wrong in which they had done to any one they suffered tenfold;

This isn’t technically a book that I read when I was in the properly defined age group, but looking back at this book it is probably the book that has had the largest impact on my life, and had it been out when I was younger would have been a book that I would have read. I read this book after I had finished reading Tuesdays with Morie by the same author. Now I have read a lot of books in my life and I can’t think of one that has had a more profound affect on me than The Five People you Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom.

After learning about the honest man his father truly was, Eddie learns to release the disdain he had towards his father. You never really know what someone is going through, so I learned not to judge someone’s actions without getting to known their whole story. People are the way they are for a reason, so we should not be quick to anger when someone wrongs us. With acts as drastic as physical abuse, there is usually a deeper problem residing in the situation. When you come to accept people for who they are, forgiveness is not far behind.

Heaven could be described as colorful, bright, filled with the deepest emotions of pure joy to most mortals. It was what appeared into their mind, their imagination. But they were wrong. It was more described as peaceful, calm, a wave rolling onto the smooth beach sand. You gaze at what you want to see,

We all have our own picture of what we imagine Heaven will look like. In this book, three-year-old, Colton Burpo tells the reader about his experience to Heaven and back. Through this family’s rough year, narrator Todd Burpo shares his family’s experience in hopes to encourage others to stay strong during tough times in their lives.

The book The Five People You Meet In Heaven is about a kid named Eddie that strives to keep Ruby Pier a safe place to ride and who is also a crippled veteran. People used to call him Eddie maintenance because he had a tag that said maintenance. Eddie dies at the age of eighty-three. Eddie had an assistant who was named Dominguez who also help keep the rides safe. One day at Ruby Pier the ride Freddy’s Free Fall malfunctioned because a passenger lost their keys on ride which made the tilt over and hang off the track. Then when Eddie seen that the cart was hanging off the edge he tried to tell the people who work at the ride how to fix the ride but it was too late then the cart fell. Standing directly under the cart was a little girl and when

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

Our moral and moral choices effect everyone around us. Eddie saved many lives at Ruby Pier, those people are also important and have a part in everyone else lives. Everyone has a purpose

During the war, Eddie faced a lot of challenges that affected his reason to live. After Eddie helped his men escape a weight was put on him making feel as if he had no reason for life anymore. The three men who was captured along with Eddie, including Eddie’s captain, had burned down the campsite they were being held at. In that moment, Eddie decides to end his life by walking in the fire. To stop him, the captain shot him in the leg causing Eddie to become weak then unconscious. Eddie’s wild act delayed the group of men from leaving. The three men found a vehicle to leave in but came across a locked gate they were unable to drive around “because the ground dropped off sharply on both sides” (90). To get Eddie and the others out safely, the

1. Eddie did not have a good relationship with his father. It seems abusive considering his father tried to punch him. He also yells at Eddie and tells him to get a job.

Heaven and Hell are ambiguous topics discussed and debated throughout all of human existence. Particularly, if there is a heaven or hell, and if so, what do they entail? Where are they? What do they look like? The 1990 film, Flatliners, explores one possible option for what happens to human essence after death. The film explores where this essence, whatever it may be, may go. It also explores what this place will look like for each of the different characters, as well as hints at the idea that deeds on earth may affect a person’s place, status, or experiences in the afterlife. Some of the ideas in the film related to some of the ideas brought about in the Bible, as well as some of the ideas and beliefs of the Essences that are discussed in the book Heaven: a history by Colleen McDannell and Bernhard Lang. The hint of redemption from sins in the movie is related to the Bible, but the individual experiences were similar to the beliefs of the Essenes for an individualized hope in the afterlife. Both the Bible and the Essenes expressed a setting for the afterlife that is portrayed in the film.

While God punishes Adam and Eve in the story, Santiago learns a valuable lesson. Santiago learns he can not trust all of the people he meets and not everyone has his best interest in mind. These qualities become more useful to him as he builds relationships with other characters and learns more about himself.

The similarities and differences between Heaven and Hell give meaning to Hell physical and emotional presence. As the audience analyzes the physical descriptions of Hell given in