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    There is a meaning to every action in life. No story goes unheard. The Five People You Meet in Heaven is a novel by Mitch Albom about a man named Eddie and the story of his life as he travels through heaven. Eddie is learning all the lessons that he did not learn during his life through the 5 people that he is meeting during his journey to his final destination in heaven. Months before Eddie’s death, there was a boy named Nicky who lost his car key on a ride called Freddy’s Free Fall. This key was

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    “The Five People You Meet in Heaven” Working at an amusement park called Ruby Pier, Eddie, known to the people at the pier as “Eddie Maintenance” because of his name tag, is a lonely man full of pain and resentment. He is eighty-three years old and has worked at Ruby Pier most of his life. His life contains many doubts and uncertainties. By the end of Eddie’s story, he learns the truth behind all the doubts that have haunted him his entire life. There are so many aspects of life, some full of pain

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    The Five People you meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom Cultural focus: The major element of culture present in The Five People you meet in Heaven is spirituality and discovering that everything happens for a reason. After the main character, Eddie, goes his entire life feeling emotions of failure, meritocracy, and misfortune, he is given closure and guidance from individuals who reveal that all actions and lives are connected for a greater meaning. Quote Summary Focus Questions “‘It is because the human

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    look a Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom, where we see a man who dies and goes on a journey to understand the impact he made on others life. We also can look at the movie Pacific Rim: Uprising. Character development is what authors tend to focus on. These things usually are based off the environment and what the main character must overcome. Rick Riordan portrays Percy with ADHD and Dyslexia but shows us that its just his battle reflexes and his ability to read Ancient Greek.

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    The 5 People You Meet in Heaven The Five People You Meet in Heaven, by Mitch Albom is known for its great amount of symbolism throughout the book. As Eddie, the main character, was killed while he worked at Ruby Pier, before he could go to heaven and live a happy place, he had to meet five specific people. Symbolism is a greater sense of meaning to what is written, beyond what has been described. Mitch Albom uses symbolism to show how each person Eddie meets in heaven impacted him in some way or

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    For this assignment, I chose to read “The Five People You Meet in Heaven”, a book written by one of my favorite authors, Mitch Albom. The story follows the life and death of an older maintenance worker, Eddie. The book begins as if it is a normal day for Eddie, minus the fact that it his birthday. Eddie wakes up and goes to work at the amusement park Ruby Pier, a position that he has always held and a position that was also held by his father for a great number of years. In Eddie’s effort to save

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    The Five People You Meet in Heaven is a book by Mitch Albom that also had a movie made out of it. It is about Eddie who was killed while trying to save a little girl. After Eddie’s death he goes up to heaven and meets five people that had a large impact on his life. The second person that Eddie meets was his Captain when he helped with fighting the the Philippines. When meeting him Captain they look back at the time that they were taken prisoners on a small Philippine island. In both the movie and

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    Five People You Meet in Heaven In the book “The Five People you Meet in Heaven”, written by Mitch Albom, a guy named Eddie had died saving a child’s life and had went to heaven. There he met many people who he had somehow encountered in his life, such as the Blue Man. He had also met up with his old army captain who he had went to the Philippines with in World War II. Finally he discovered a girl named Tara whom she blames him for of killing her while she was on Earth. While in Heaven Eddie came

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    The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albon The title of the book is The Five People You Meet in Heaven written by Mitch Albon. The genre of the book is philosophical fiction meaning, you have beliefs about many things for instance in this book it’s god. It starts out at an amusement park on Ruby Pier but, as the book moves along and after Eddie dies there are multiple settings which are in each place of the five people he meets. The novel in a brief summary is as follows. He ends up dying

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    characters in a story typically have a brief role in a story. When some authors use a minor character to effect the plot, it shouldn't overcome the main character. Some people might think that minor characters in a story wouldn't be important but depends on the author. In Mitch Albom’s moving novel The Five People You Meet in Heaven, Mickey Shea, Eddie’s father,and Ruby are essential in moving the plot along despite being minor characters. Eddie’s father is one of the minor characters from the novel

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