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    The Five People You Meet in Heaven is an inspirational and philosophical fiction written by Mitch Albom. As an author, Albom reaches new heights as he writes about life and death with religious aspects of a widely known concept of heaven. Albom reveals many different and important characteristics of life. With only 196 pages, the short novel was published in 2003 by Hyperion Books. Literary elements are key to the plot and to how the author wants to display their work. The Five People You Meet

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    wondering and speculating. The movie titled The Five People You Meet in Heaven explores the possibility of the existence of a realm outside of our own in which all the decisions and actions we make while living culminate the grand arc of a person’s life. The main character, Eddie, encounters five people in the afterlife, and they each teach him some virtue of his past life. The movie offers some insight into what Heaven may be

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    The Five People You Meet in Heaven starts out with a man named Eddie celebrating his 83rd birthday before going to heaven. Unlike traditional stories, the author, Mitch Albom, starts this book at the end, the end of Eddie’s life that is. “It might seem strange to start a story with an ending. But all endings are also beginnings. We just don’t know it at the time” (Page 1) Eddie died by trying to save a young girl from being crushed by a falling ride. After his death, he enters heaven, where he meets

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    THE FIVE PEOPLE YOU MEET IN HEAVEN Mitch Albom The Five People You Meet In Heaven, by Mitch Albom is an explanation of life, starting with death. In this story, Albom starts when life ends, and this has plenty of symbolism once analysed further. In many ways, Death can teach the greatest lesson: Life. Death teaches us our purpose on Earth, it signifies the effect that our lives had on people around us, but more importantly, Death leaves behind a hole that cannot be filled. In Five People, Albom

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    “TITLE” Alek Nino 5th hour The Five People You Meet in Heaven follows the life and death of a maintenance worker named Eddie. Eddie was an ordinary working man that grew up at a seaside pier. Eddie feels his life has no meaning, but following his death and experience in heaven he come to learn this is not true. Written by Mitch Albom this novel expresses a variety of themes and moods throughout the book which have a big impact of the main characters. Sacrifice, a main theme in this novel, is

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    The Five People You Meet in Heaven is novel written by Albom Mitch. This story is about a man called Eddie also known as “Eddie Maintenance” who deceased on his 83rd birthday and grasps details about his lifetime by visiting five people in heaven who had an impact on his life. Throughout the book, the five people proclaims about lessons they have learned after their deaths and they also make Eddie understand why some events happened during his existence. There were three themes that has been propagated

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    In The Five People You Meet in Heaven, author Mitch Albom talks about the life of Eddie who is a crippled World War II veteran who worked at an amusement park. Instead of just revealing to us that Eddie dies in the end, he decides to tell us of his inevitable death in the very beginning. As we read through the book, it flashes back in between his years on Earth and his current time in Heaven. The five people that he meets are all connected to him in some way and they each teach him a different lesson

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    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

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    The Five People You Meet in Heaven explains the effect of one person to another. The plot of the movie was an 80 year old man who dies, while saving a little girl's life. After Eddie dies he talking to five people that affected his life rather he knew it or not. The people he met was the Blue Man, Captain, Ruby, Marguerite, and Tala. Each had their own message to share but the underlining themes was that each person affected the other and the other affects the next. Captain took Eddie’s ability

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    In the present day, society places much emphasis on those who stand out from the ‘normal’ behaviours that a culture determines one should possess. As a result, many of the authentic qualities associated with past generations are less prominent, and the limited sturdy values in the present day youth are the replacement. This is best shown through the story of Lizzie Velasquez, who is notoriously ‘the ugliest woman in the world’ among ruthless cyber bullies, despite the fact that she suffers from a

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