The Five People You Meet In Heaven Essay

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    Have you ever wondered how life would be like after the day of your death? Wondering if heaven would be a special paradise meeting loved ones who passed away, and encountering with people that were related to you, but have never seen before. The Five People You Meet in Heaven has a wonderful sequence of life after death. Eddie, who is the main character of this story had lost his life from a tragic roller coaster accident by saving a five-year-old girl from falling off a malfunctioned ride. He saved

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    Mitch Albom

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    The 5 people You Meet in Heaven Final Assessment "If we can prove an afterlife, then we have less pressure to make our physical life last forever" (Chuck Palahniuk).After life is life after death. Most people imagine it as a heaven or a soothing place that fits all the humans’ desires and wants that they never got on earth. Most heavens have a God or have a worshiped figure. Mitch Albom’s perception of after life is that you meet five people in heaven and each person teaches you a lesson.

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    In the book The Five People You Meet in Heaven a guy named Eddie meet with 5 different people in heaven. Some of the people Eddie meets with he has met before and knows and others he has never met. When Eddie was alive he was angry over many things because he didn’t know why they happened to him. When he went to heaven and met these 5 people he was taught at least one good lesson from each of them. The first person Eddie met in heaven was the Blue Man. Eddie had only seen this guy a couple times

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    When you imaging heaven, what do you think it would be like? In this particular movie an elderly man named Eddie has a very unique experience of going to heaven, where he meets five people. Before he passed away, Eddie worked at an amusement park called Ruby Pier. When he was just a little kid, his dad worked there and he would go to work with him a lot, so he got to know the park very well. He ended up working as the maintenance man until he was 83 years of age. One day one of the rides broke down

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    not named within the novel; Eddie merely refers to him as ‘The Captain.’ Similar to when he first meets Ruby, Eddie is unsure of what the Captain is meant to show him, but through the telling of his tragic story,

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    “All endings are also beginnings” means when something ends something new begins. For Eddie, his life had ended and his life in heaven had begun. In my life, my journey in middle school has ended, and my life in high school is beginning. Similar to Eddie, I am nervous for this new change in my life. Eddi is an old man with white hair and a barrel chest. On his right shoulder, above his thick forearms, lay a faded army tattoo. Always alongside Eddie was his cane. He could barely walk after his knee

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    People influence others and they go off and influence someone else like an endless cycle full of different stories with people who’ve gone through different things and yet those stories are all linked together somehow and when one chapter ends another chapter starts because their story is not finished, if anything it is just the beginning and that’s what Eddie learned when it was his time to leave earth and start his new beginning in heaven. The novel,The Five People You Meet in Heaven, written by

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    evident in literary works from a wide variety of different time periods, genres and cultures. The lack of a companion resulted in tragedy, therefore, this is proof that we all need people in our lives to help us through hard times. This is very clear in This Dark Endeavour by Kenneth Oppel, The Five People You Meet In Heaven by Mitch Albom, Zebra by Chaim Potok, and Simon Birch by John Irving. Friendship is a very important theme in This Dark Endeavor by Kenneth Oppel. One of the protagonists, Konrad

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    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

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    Kali Molter Mrs. Maples Ap Phsyc 29 August 2017 The Five People You Meet in Heaven It is a wonder that the mind, the humans closet companion, can also be life’s most unfathomable mystery. For something that knows us so well, we understand it so little. In the novel, The Five People You Mett in Heaven, Mitch Albom artfully touches on concepts regarding the psychology of the human mind and experience. He masters the process of combining the complexity of human consciousness with the simplistic beauty

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