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    The Five People you meet in Heaven Reflective Essay One of the major themes in Mitch Albom’s novel The Five People you meet in Heaven is sacrifice; Albom portrays the themes throughout the novel in the form of life lessons. The novel’s protagonist Eddie learns five lessons from the people he comes into contact with in heaven. Eddie learns an important lesson about sacrifice when coming across the second person he meets in heaven known as The Captain; we learn that The Captain is an important figure

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    In Mitch Albom`s The five people you meet in heaven, a maintenance man named Eddie heroically saves a young girl but, unfortunately dies in the process. Throughout, his life Eddie constantly questions the value of his life. He does not realize the true meaning of life. Throughout the novel he meets five people after his death that help him realize what life truly is. Therefore, the theme of this novel is nothing in life happens by chance. The theme of this novel is displayed multiple ways throughout

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    The Five People You Meet In Heaven, Mitch Albom creates a beloved character named Eddie. The story begins with him doing his job at Ruby Pier, and he hears an unusual noise. The rollercoaster’s cable is coming loose, and people are on top of it. The cable is about to snap and he sees a little girl under the coaster, not knowing what’s going on. He tries to save her, but he dies in the process. After this, the part he is in heaven starts to roll in. When he gets to heaven, he meets five people who

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    Have you ever wondered what happens after your life on earth, do we fly into the sky and watch as the city around us continues to move without us or do we wake up to a white room waiting for something to happen or someone to come along? Well in Mitch Albom's, The Five People You Meet In Heaven, Albom describes every event that occurs to Eddie and introduces Eddie to his new surroundings. In the novel, The Five People You Meet in Heaven, readers are introduced to five people that teach Eddie five

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    Over the summer I had to read two of four books provided for me. I chose The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Alborn and Bad Boy by Walter Dean-Myers. Originally, I intended on reading the other two books but when I read the first page of these two, they caught my interest. I was happily surprised to find out how great they were! It was a bit difficult to see the similarities between the two due to the fact they really were two completely different books. Even so, I had a lot fun reading

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    People don’t realize the most important moments in life until they have passed, and they have time to look back on them and realize how these moments have shaped them. In “The Five People You Meet in Heaven” by Mitch Albom it tells the story of Eddie’s moments and how they have reflected and shaped his life. The three most important events in Eddie’s life are the day he meets Marguerite, the shadow he sees in the barn, and the day he is shot in the leg. The first important event is day Eddie meets

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    Some books you have a connection with, but I did not have a connection with this book and that is why I would not recommend this book. The Five People You Meet In Heaven begins within the countdown to a man's death. A man named Eddie. After Eddie’s tragic death he appeared in heaven. When there he met five people. He meets the blue man.... Ruby ....the captain, Marguerite and Tala. Each taught him a valuable lesson. Even though it has an uncommon plot, I did not find this book interesting

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    “Sometimes when you sacrifice something precious, you’re not really losing it, you’re just passing it on to someone else.”(Albom 94). The novel, The Five People You Meet in Heaven, by Mitch Albom is about an 83 year old crippled veteran of World War II, named Eddie, or Eddie Maintenance. He had suffered a hard life, beginning with his birth to an abusive smoker and now earns his living maintaining the equipment for an amusement park named Ruby Pier. He soon ends up seeing the last bit of earth on

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    The book The Five People You Meet in Heaven was an interesting read that gave me a new perspective on many different aspects of my life. I enjoyed the book, and it taught me many different lessons. Through all of the characters in the book, I was able to learn something new, and I was able to think about things in a different way. The main lesson that this book taught me is that everything happens for a reason. Whether you know it or not, there is a purpose for everything that happens in your life

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    The Five People You Meet in Heaven Life lessons are mistakes you have learned from and can apply to your life the next time you go through something similar. There are a variety of lessons that one can learn(or that i learned?) from the book such as forgiveness, the impact you have, everybody has to make sacrifices, and you can choose how you deal with situations you are faced with. Forgivenesses is an easy act of being willing to forgive someone of their actions. One thing I learned from this book

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