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Book Report On The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom
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.
It is the story of a man named Eddie who for almost his whole life was the
maintenance man at an amusement park called Ruby Pier. The story starts with the end
of Eddie's life on Earth and the beginning of his journey through heaven. The basic
story wasn't what got to me, it was the lessons Eddie learns along the way as he meets
the five people he was to meet in heaven.
Throughout the book we are introduced to people from his past, some he knew
and some were just a glimpse in his life. They all had something that they had to teach
Eddie about life. Each had a different lesson that Eddie needs to understand before he
can move on in heaven.
The first person that Eddie meets was a member of the freak show his name was
Joseph Corvelzchchik, and he was known as the "blue man" and I think that out of all
the people Eddie meets he has the most thought provoking quotes. The blue man died
when Eddie was a young boy. Eddie was playing catch with some friends and had run
into the road in front of the car that the blue man was driving. The blue man managed
to avoid hitting and killing Eddie, but subsequently had a heart attack and died from
the anxiety of the close call.
Upon hearing this Eddie feels awful and asks why the blue man died instead of
Eddie. The blue man assures him that it was okay and that everything happens for a
reason. "There are no random acts. That we are all connected. That you can no more
eddie took it he ran, manny went behind and he realized that Eddie was his sister’s boyfriend and that
To begin, Edwards utilizes variation in tone to provoke fear and guilt among his congregation. For example, Edwards claims “all your righteousness, would have no more influence to uphold you and keep you
In the same scheme, both in the movie and the book, the father is presented as abusive and alcoholic on many occasions. In words, the book gives a detailed account of the damages inflicted on Eddie by his father’s violence: “he went through his younger years whacked, lashed, and beaten.” (Albom 105) In the film, t...
where you are going which is a lot like Eddie in the later stages of
In Eddie, Miller creates the classic Italian-American ‘family man’ who strives to be head of the household and goes about with a sense of pride and familial duty. Eddie feels it is his duty to look after his family and keep to his word as he says, ‘Katie I promised your mother on her deathbed. I'm responsible for you’. It is evident that family is very important and he has very strong family values to which he endeavours to keep, a sign of the Italian family where the man feels it is his duty to keep his word and look after the entire family, as he is the head of the household. This accentuates the concept of masculinity which is further enforced by Eddie’s old fashioned views, his inability to understand the younger generation and also the conflict of interest of duty to family between Eddie and Rodolfo. Eddie, the ‘respectable family man’ feels no honour for Rodolfo who buys, with his first money, ‘a snappy new jacket …, records [whilst] his brother’s kids are starvin’ with tuberculosis.’ He feels that as Rodolfo has none of his own family, he should help his brother who is also a family man. This underscores the fact that in Eddie’s mind, ...
The first scene begins with a fight. Obviously this introduction is indicative of some kind of intense emotion to follow. An aura of passionate emotions continues to surface throughout the play. The mood is set immediately. The audience knows that whatever is to come will be fiery and fervent. Ironically, the opening scene is the climax itself. By using this structure, the author gets right to the point that Eddie Carbone is a self-destructive character without restraint or self-control. His peers, the longshoremen, try to discourage him from fighting, but none approach him physically. By keeping a safe distance, they yield to his unbridled temper. Eddie is not a man who spends a lot of time with self-reflection. He is a intransigent character that contrasts well against the other characters’ flexibility and compliance. He encompasses the typical stubborn (and somewhat self-righteous ) facet of the entire human race. All people interpret society and community through their own subjective eyes; therefore, filtering out the parts and people that do not fit their idea of the norm. Eddie is the common man, not the self-made man or even the desperate fledgling. He is a typical lower-middle class citizen just calling it like he sees it. Unfortunately, he only accepts what he wants to, instead of what could benefit him the most: an open mind.
The characters in “the five people you meet in heaven” seem very plausible. Eddie is describes as, “A squat, white haired old man, with a short neck, a barrel chest, thick forearms and a faded army tattoo on his right shoulder.” (Albom, 2) This physical description is archetypal of an aging war veteran that is quietly living out their life. Throughout my life I have seen many people who could fit the physical capacity of the role. Eddie’s personality is similar to one of a loving grandpa, as he seems like a nice old man albeit one who is not quite as fond of teenagers, “Children liked Eddie. Not teenagers. Teenagers gave him headaches.” (Albom, 3). Eddie demonst...
him, b) what is his fatal flaw, c) do we have any sympathy with Eddie,
shows us the deeper side of Eddie as he seems to know all the rules
writing the play. Right at the end of the play Eddie ends up trying to
from the start that she is very reliant on Eddie and she wants him to
Not only does the song involve Eddies rough start to being famous, but Tom Petty also involves a shifting tone throughout the story about Eddie, Tom Petty uses a lot of tones like an optimistic tone. Eddie showed to be a very optimistic kind of person as the story continued. He started with a girlfriend, a paying job, lots of money,
in front of Eddie, and looks down at it” it is a contrast to his
Tom Petty’s song tells a story about a rockstar named Eddie, rise and demise from fame. When Eddie, an eighteen years old man, just graduated high school, he moved to Hollywood. He gotten a tattoo when he got there. Then he meet a girl who also had a tattoo. Eventually they moved into an apartment together. Eddie got a job as a bouncer
The Blue Man first teaches Eddie about interconnectedness by saying “It is because the human spirit knows, deep down, that all live intersect. That death doesn’t just take someone, it misses someone else, and in the small distance between being taken and being missed, lives are changed” (Albom 48). The Blue Man’s figure of speech is when he recalls his death to Eddie that happened when Eddie was at a young age. Eddie finds out that he was the main cause of the Blue Mans death when he jumped into the middle of the street for a ball causing the blue man’s truck to serve away from Eddie causing an accident, killing the Blue Man. Eddie is apologetic towards the blue man when his little action turned into a disaster that he never knew about, Albom developes interconnectedness by saying “Eddie had been there, a little boy, fidgeting through the ceremony, with no idea of the role he’d played in it” (Albom 50). The Blue Man’s lesson towards interconnectedness is significance to the role of death that it can happen at anytime caused by someone with little action or knowledge. The Blue Man is telling Eddie that he should not feel sorry for something that happened when Eddie did not know any better and that Eddie could have been the one killed when he chased the ball into the street. The Blue man uses interconnectedness and death to show Eddie that strangers become connected to each other even though they both did not know each other until they finally met in Heaven. Random little acts has connected Eddie and the Blue man in the first lesson of his journey building a stronger relationship while also connecting the sadness of death and sacrifice of the Blue man’s life. This also is similar towards Eddie actions when he does not know the girl he eventually saved from the failing cart at the Pier, interconnecting with death and connection