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    characterization in the novel, The Five People You Meet in Heaven, written by Mitch Albom. The main character, Eddie, demonstrates dynamic characterization throughout the novel. Readers can empathize his general conflicts and how he resolves them. Eddie can also be perceived as a character with many physical and emotional traits. The main character has numerous and significant character traits that impacts the plot of the story. Throughout the novel, The Five People You Meet in Heaven, the reader can observe

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    The book The Five People You Meet in Heaven shows the dangerous sides of people who are looking for money. In the story, a wealthy manager of a circus offers a man with blue skin a job to perform in a show. During the shows, the Blue Man was forced to go on stage and have people laugh at him. The manager called him the ‘best freak’ in the show(Albom 42). As people watched and laughed at the Blue Man, the manager would make more and more money. This represents a problem occuring in today's world,

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    how one affect goes into another. One example from the book is, “Take a moment when the ball flies over Eddie’s head and out into the street.” “Chases and runs in front of an automobile.” “races back to play with his friends.” (pg. 25 5 People You Meet In Heaven). This quote is just one side that shows an innocent kid running into the road trying to get a ball. This would be the good side because the quotes explain him going back and enjoying his life. Little did the kid know there is another side

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    “The Five People You Meet in Heaven” The Five People You Meet in Heaven is an amazing book that shows how every life is connected, and that every life matters. The Five People You Meet in Heaven is a book about an older man named Eddie who is a maintenance worker for an amusement park called Ruby Pier where he works all of his life and his dad before him. Ruby Pier was built some seventy-five years ago and has changed immensely since it was built. The Five People You Meet in Heaven describes heaven

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    In The Five People You Meet in Heaven, by Mich Albon, the protagonist is a man in Eddie. His left leg has a bullet stuck under the knee from the war times, which left Eddie limping. At the beginning of the book Eddie suffers death from a falling roller coaster at age 83, trying to save a little girl. Soon enough, Eddie find himself in heaven, unsure of what to do next. He soon learns that you meet five people in heaven, which you, or they, have affected in some way. Each of the five people has a lesson

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    They roam our world just like us people. Are incorporated in our lives just like other vitals in our life. Figurative language is the oxygen of literature, it is found in every part of the world, and is a necessity in living. Authors especially love figurative language. There's not one book that you will find that will not incorporate figurative language. Authors live off of figurative language. In the course of the stupefying novel, The Five People You Meet in Heaven, the main character Eddie’s rollercoaster

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    The Five People You Meet In Heaven by Mitch Albom is a story about a man named Eddie who dies and subsequently goes through a self discovery journey in heaven, meeting five people who help him to reflect on his life and eventually shed all his earthly worries and misgivings. While all the people he meets in heaven are important, the last person he meets, a little girl he accidently kills during his time in Philippines named Tala, is the most important person he meets. One might think that his wife

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    several books to read. I chose The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Alborn and Bad Boy by Walter Dean-Myers. I had never heard of either author before this assignment. The reason I chose The Five People You Meet in Heaven was because it had been recommended to me many times. Bad Boy on the other hand had a title that seemed interesting. Originally I had thought the book by Mitch Alborn was going to be about a guy who had to prove himself to be let into heaven, while the book by Walter Dean-Myers

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    Mitch Albom’s “The five people you meet in heaven” is a phenomenal read. In contrast to most books, this novel begins with Eddie’s death. The most intriguing element Albom used was detailing Eddie’s life using the five people he met in heaven. This story could have easily been a biography on Eddie where his most memorable life events were listed. However, his story was told through five people, whom’s life was changed forever after meeting Eddie. In a series of flashbacks, Eddie is told different

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    The Five People You Meet in Heaven is a novel written by Mitch Albom that tells the story of Eddie, a grumpy old man who goes to Heaven after he dies and learns the meaning of his past life as well as valuable life lessons along the way. In Heaven, Eddie meets five people who once crossed his path when he was alive who all teach him an important lesson that leads to Eddie eventually gaining peace and knowledge before the novel is complete. Throughout this novel, we learn everything that makes up

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