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    Have you ever thought about what your destination to heaven would be like or who you would meet there? Well‚ the book The Five People You Meet in Heaven‚ by Mitch Albom constructs an image of how the afterlife would exist after an individual has passed away. In addition‚ the author presents its readers with five significant themes: every action made affects others‚ lives are sacrificed to save others‚ forgive others and let go of your anger‚ love is very powerful‚ and that there is a purpose for

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    The idea of heaven has been pondered by philosophers‚ theologians‚ and just about everyone else. Many people imagine that Heaven is someplace above the clouds with angels. Some think heaven will contain the material things they longed for in life. Even more controversial is who will be allowed in. How does someone choose who is in their heaven? Are they remembered from when they are alive or are they people that affected their timeline? What if it was much simpler than that? Suppose each person could

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    The five people you meet in heaven is about a man names Eddie who works at Ruby Pier being a maintenance worker. Eddie spent most of his life at Ruby Pier. Eddie died trying to save a young girl from getting hurt by a falling cart. Instead of the girl getting crushed by the cart Eddies does. When Eddie goes to heaven he meets five people that teaches him different lessons. There are a couple of themes but the one theme that stuck out to me was the importance of “Forgiveness”. Forgiveness is something

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    Cashane Brown Five People You Meet in Heaven March 2‚ 2013 The Five People You Meet in Heaven written by Mitch Albom‚ is about an old‚ crippled war veteran named Eddie. Eddie was raised by an abusive‚ drunk of a father and a caring mother who with all her love for her son did not interfere when Eddie’s father was abusing him. Eddie grew up resenting his father. He carried hate around with him as if it were his ID. The only true happiness Eddie found in life was his wife Marguerite. Eddie worked

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    The Five People You Meet in Heaven by: Mitch Album Character and Setting Notes Purpose for starting with the end: draws the reader in‚ and for emphasis “…all endings are also beginnings.” background information is all done in flashback when in heaven meeting his five people it is written in present tense‚ and flashes back to retell the story from the perspective of the other person and Eddie’s perspective. Sequence/order of events- at the beginning it counts down from how much time he has

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    Reflection Five People You Meet In Heaven The five people you meet in heaven is to say at least‚ an interesting book since the beginning where it ends since most books start at the beginning. What makes this different this one starts at the end‚ where we find a man named Eddie who dies while trying to save a girl from a amusement park ride falling. Then he goes to heaven and finds out that heaven is a place where you meet people who made a difference on your life‚ good or bad. So he meets his five people

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    Title: The five people you meet in heaven Author: Mitch Albom Summary: The book starts with an elderly man named Eddie who works as the head of maintenance at an amusement park called Ruby Pier. Eddie is able to perform this job despite leg injuries he received as a soldier during [World War II]. On Eddie’s birthday‚ one of the amusement park rides malfunctions because of a damaged cable and stops halfway through the ride. Two of the staff at Ruby Pier are able to rescue the passengers on the

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    The five people you meet in heaven Brady 9-1 Most people believe that life ends after death‚ but what people don’t know is that death is a new beginning. The novel “The five people you meet in heaven” by Mitch Albom proves that. Eddie lived a peaceful life after the war. But Eddie still felt his life had no purpose after marguerite passed away. Eddie was also the second generation of family to work at the pier. When Eddie passed away‚ saving a little girl‚ on his eighty-third birthday‚ he discovers

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    With his final breath‚ he feels two small hands in his -- and then nothing. He awakens in the afterlife‚ where he learns that heaven is not a lush Garden of Eden‚ but a place where five people who were in it explain your earthly life to you. These people may have been loved ones or distant strangers. Yet each of them changed your path forever. One by one‚ Eddie’s five people illuminate the unseen connections of his earthly life. As the story builds to its stunning conclusion‚ Eddie desperately seeks

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    not possible to explain. It is considered the "journey"‚ the place that one enters when traveling through different places in heaven. The sky constantly changes colors‚ from "bright lime‚" to "misty pumpkin". And in this place‚ Eddie is "traveling" to his destination‚ where he meets a person and they talk about the connection they have between each other. Sometimes Eddie meets a person who he knew when he was a child. When this is the case‚ while on the "journey"‚ Eddie‚ although still appearing as

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