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    In the novel, the five people you meet in heaven, the author uses the quote, “But the running boy is inside every man, no matter how old he gets." Eddie, the main character of the story, is killed in a horrific amusement park accident and wakes up in heaven remembering nothing. He is feeling like a brand new person with no aches or pains. In the story, the narrator wrote, “In the last ten years, he had forgotten what it was like to walk without wincing or to sit without struggling to find comfort

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    the book "The five people you meet in heaven". Have you ever thought of who you will see when you go to heaven, or who you may meet? This book not only shares the five people you meet in heaven, but also the reasons behind them. The idea of this book is to show how someone may not know how they effect someone elses life. For instance, the blue man in the book gets in a car crash eddie had no idea he'd caused, or the little girl eddie meets in the end he had no idea he bombed in war. You may have an

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    The Five People you meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom. Mitch Albom is a best selling author, journalist, screenwriter, playwright, radio and television broadcaster, and musician. Mitch’s books have sold more than 35 million copies around the world. They have been published in forty-nine territories and in forty-five languages. They have made it the Emmys and television movies. Mitch has wrote several other books such as For one more day and have a little faith. The five people Eddie meets in heaven

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    Many people share their life experiences with a written form of self expression. The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom shares the life story of a man named Eddie, who worked at an amusement work his entire adult life, following his dad's footsteps. Eddie lost his life by saving a girl and pushing her out of the way her. He meets five important people that he did not know would change his life forever. Eddie’s dissatisfaction with working at the amusement park proves that he was put there

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    The Five People You Meet in Heaven There are many theories of what life is like after death. No one really knows what will happen. The author of The Five People You Meet in Heaven explains what he thinks heaven will be like though the main character Eddie. When Eddie gets to heaven he meets five people that affected his life in some way. All the people we meet in our lives have at least one thing to teach us. Why is the “Blue Man” important to Eddie? The “Blue Man” is the first person Eddie meets

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    The Five People You Meet in Heaven For my research project I have chosen to discuss the plot, the characters, and the symbolism of the novel “The Five People You Meet in Heaven” by Mitch Albom. This novel was rated # 1 on the New Your Times Bestseller. The plot is divided up into five elements: the exposition, the rising action, the climax, the falling action, and the resolution. In the exposition we are introduced to Eddie the main character. We learn that Eddie is 83 years old and is the maintenance

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    “The Five People you Meet in Heaven” Five people you meet in Heaven is a story about an average man going about his average life thinking he's not important when tragedy strikes at Ruby Pier where Eddie works. Eddie passed away having no idea how many people's lives he had effected, much less how. The “Blue Man”, whose Heaven was Ruby Pier, taught Eddie how every one person's story is somehow tied to someone else's life in one way or another. For example how the blue man died. Eddie was a young

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    The Five People You Meet In Heaven “The Five People You Meet In Heaven” by Mitch Albom is a heartfelt story of a war veteran named Eddie who works at the Ruby Pier. On his 83rd birthday, Eddie is killed trying to save a little girl from the falling cart of a ride that malfunctioned. When Eddie goes to heaven, he meets five people that tell him different things about his life and teach him lessons. Within the book, there are many important symbols. The Ferris wheel and the ocean are two of these

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    For my research project I have chosen to discuss the plot, the characters, and the symbolism of the novel “The Five People You Meet in Heaven” by Mitch Albom. This novel was rated # 1 on the New Your Times Bestseller. The plot is divided up into five elements: the exposition, the rising action, the climax, the falling action, and the resolution. In the exposition we are introduced to Eddie the main character. We learn that Eddie is 83 years old and is the maintenance man at Ruby Pier. In the exposition

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    The Five People You Meet in Heaven. Through meeting five influential people in heaven, Eddie “Maintenance” comes to learn the principles of forgiveness. The Five People You Meet in Heaven embodies this theme of virtue by introducing Eddie’s last person, Tala, the most innocent of all. The author may have used Tala as Eddie’s fifth person in heaven because if the innocence she represents. Up until he met Tala, Eddie had the perception that his life was essentially meaningless. Eddie

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