Starts with an unhappy ending, but it is also a beginning of another eternal, beatific life. The five people you meet in heaven is a famous novel that was written in a drab tone, yet meaningful themes by Mitch Albom and published in 2003. The story undoubtedly describes an 83-years-old man, Eddie, who had a wretched life and worked regrettably as a maintenance at Ruby Pier. Moreover, Ruby Pier is an amusement park, where everyone of all ages can be entertained by; however, it is also the official place where all of Eddie’s conflicts commenced from his childhood throughout his maturity. On his 83rd birthday, a dreadful accident occurs at Ruby Pier, one of the carnival carts has a mechanical problem, and it falls from above. Instantly, Eddie …show more content…
Strangely, this heaven has an anomalous framework; a background looks exactly like Ruby Pier with all the rollercoasters, the merry-go-rounds, and other fascinating games. From the description, the Blue Man was illuminated by his characteristic, the blue skin which caused by his stupidity when he was a child. He gives Eddie a flashback of where he died and told Eddie that he is the one who is indirectly responsible for his death. The scene started with Eddie as a little boy playing baseball on the street with his friends, and when the ball bounced into the street, he ran after it as the Blue Man was driving in the same direction. Besides, his car crashed and caused the demise of the Blue Man. Eddie swiftly stumbles on his feet as he feels sorry after seeing what he had done carelessly. As the first lesson, the Blue Man teaches Eddie that there are no random act in life and sometimes lives are twisted with one and …show more content…
For a long time, Eddie never seems to understand his dad, more likely he holds enmities against his father even after his death. Surprisingly, he meets with a lady named Ruby, who was once an owner of Ruby Pier. She shows a heinous reminiscence where his father’s best friend, Mickey Shea sexually assaults his mother; meanwhile, Eddie’s father returns home, witnesses what happened and rapidly chases Mickey out of the house as he falls into the pier. Instead of letting him drown to death, his father chooses to save Mickey. This event gives Eddie a new impression of his dad as a loyal friend, a kind person that he never saw before. Like every other people, Ruby teaches him to let go of his anger and forgives his dad for not being a compassionate
“I forgive you, Dad.” (Movie) On the movie screen the tearful Eddie, with his trembling voice, is wholeheartedly trying to reach out to his father inside the Diner in Heaven. It is the moment that Eddie’s sentimental reflection turns into an emotional eruption. At that moment Eddie’s tears almost wet my face. That is just one of stunning visual effects I felt while watching the film, “The Five People You Meet in Heaven.” The film, directed by Lloyd Kramer, is based on the book with the same title, written by Mitch Albom. In terms of plot, general theme, and setting, they are all projected in similar ways both in the book and the movie, such as chronological order of the five people Eddie meets in Heaven, use of flashbacks, and Ruby Pier entertainment park as the central stage. By appearance, both in the book and the movie, Eddie and the five people are naturally the major focus. However, I believe that the relationship between Eddie and his father is specially fabricated by the director and the author with the intention of making the story more complex and captivating. On top of that, I find that Eddie’s father, portrayed as a controversial character throughout the book and all over the film, is really worth further reviewing and discussion. More specifically, I would like to analyze the similarities and differences vividly perceived between the novel and the movie in various ways of portraying the father.
This is a crucial part because he finally committed to not letting alcohol control his life, something that has controlled him since his brother was killed. This was a huge step in Eddie’s character development.
Mitch Albom's The Five People You Meet in Heaven has sparked a much-needed emotional transformation inside my heart. It had quenched my thirsty body with the hope and comfort I had been seeking for the longest time. In The Five People You Meet In Heaven, Mitch Albom simply represents his version of what heaven could be like. Ideally, in this heaven, people who felt unimportant here on earth would realize, finally, how much they mattered and how much they were loved. This is the greatest gift God can give to you: to understand what happened in your life.
Eddie’s life ends tragically at Ruby Pier, the amusement park, where he has felt trapped for so many, long years, with what he thinks of as “a meaningless life”. When Eddie opens his eyes, he thinks that he is in heaven. He sees the sky changing many, beautiful colors as he is floating through the air. Eddie eventually lands in the place that he has come to think of as his own hell, Ruby Pier. He questions why he has been sent back here. He wonders if he had really been so bad of a person on earth that God would send him here to live for eternity. Once Eddie meets the side show “freak”, The Blue Man, he begins to understand why he has come here again. The Blue Man explains that Eddie will meet five people in heaven that will explain the meaning of his life.
Eddie, not knowing whether he had saved the little girl, had died and now he was in heaven. He felt no pain or sadness. He was just floating over fields of unimaginable colors. When he finally landed, he was at Ruby Pier, but it was the Ruby Pier from his childhood. He then heard a voice over the loudspeaker saying there was a freak show at a certain ...
Ruby - Eddie hated his father for abusing him and causing trauma that Eddie felt ruined his life. Even after his father passed, Eddie could never seem to let go of the anger and resentment that he held towards his father; rather, Eddie still hated and resented his father after his death so much so, that it seemed to still ruin Eddie's happiness. While in heaven, Ruby teaches Eddie to let go of his anger and to forgive his father.
Throughout the pay, Eddie’s commanding tone serves to emphasize his desperate need to bring his brother back into reality. In the beginning of the play, Eddie forcefully questions Robbie saying “O.K, Robbie?... You O.K.? ... Of course you’re O.K.”
A sacrifice comes unknowingly. The first person Eddie meets in heaven is Joseph Corvelzchik, also known as the Blue Man. Although Eddie didn’t know the Blue Man, he was able to make a connection when the Blue Man revealed how he died. Unknowingly to Eddie, the Blue Man saved his life, at the cost of his. As a child, Eddie runs after a ball into the street causing the Blue Man to swerve his car to avoid hitting Eddie. In the process of swerving his car out of the way, the Blue Man gets into a car accident, has a heart attack and dies. Eddie, astonished and shamed, apologizes profusely and...
Upon hearing this Eddie feels awful and asks why the blue man died instead of
The Five People You Meet in Heaven is centered around this quote. As explained earlier in the novel, The Blue Man had saved Eddie’s life by thinking about how young and full of potential he was while he was middle aged and did not have much of a life outside of Ruby Pier (XLII). By thinking this through, he had stopped in time to save Eddie, but by saving Eddie, he had died since “It’s the thinking that gets you killed. ”(LX.ii.v). I believe that everyone has their quote they live by in life and for me, “It’s the thinking that gets you killed.
The first person Eddie meet in heaven is Joseph Corvelzchik, also known as the Blue Man. Eddie never really knew the Blue
Eddie also shows signs of loyalty as at the start of the play he is loyal and hard-working towards his family, just the same as Marco. However we also see for Eddie that he betrays his own family merely for his jealousy, and reports them for illegally immigrating to the country, it is in this that Eddie deceives us, as due to the Traditional Italian values he has, we came to expect him to be a loyal character, however he sows us the worst betrayal, which leads to much more drama and ultimately his death.
Lessons From The Five People You Meet In Heaven The end; Most books start with the beginning, but this one started with the end. Starting with the end is just like starting from the beginning because like Mitch Albom said, ”All endings are also beginnings. We just do not know it at the time.”
The climax is when Eddie meets his last person in heaven which is Tala, and throughout the whole book the readers questioned who was in the fire that Eddie started after breaking free from imprisonment during the war. Tala is described with burn scars all over her body and he discovers that he was right, and there was a child in that fire, which was Tala, and he killed her. Tala tells Eddie that her scars can be washed off wash off and gives him a rock to wash them off. The resolution is when Tala explains to him the purpose of his life was to protect children and while he was trying to save the little girl at the pier, the hands he felt were not the little girls’ but Tala’s hands pulling him up to
The play was set in the nineteen fifties so Eddie would be told by me