These five people represent mentors for those who have just passed, providing Eddie with the wisdom they learned during their first steps. The Five People You Meet in Heaven demonstrates that the people selected could be anyone, even a stranger distantly connected to how the person who died lived on Earth. “Eddie is a curmudgeonly elderly amusement park maintenance worker who spends each day performing his routine activities…”įrom the beginning of his arrival in heaven, Eddie ponders several major questions, such as “Where is my worry?” and “Where is my pain?” He gradually learns that the first step in heaven is to meet with the five people who have been personally chosen for him.
Thus begins an emotionally powerful and instructive journey to heaven.
While trying to save a little girl, death arrives for Eddie. On what happens to be his 83 rd birthday, an accident on a ride happens at the park. The book also shifts during chapters and gives readers glimpses of other milestone birthdays for the protagonist.Įddie is a curmudgeonly elderly amusement park maintenance worker who spends each day performing his routine activities with pain and slowness. Every meeting with these five people involves each of them imparting an important life lesson that they learned after their deaths, as well as answers to the outcomes of events that have haunted, for example, Eddie for the majority of his life. Then, he carefully intertwines the details of his life through each of his encounters with the five people who have been assigned for the protagonist to meet in heaven. Mitch Albom’s The Five People You Meet in Heaven reverses its order by starting with his protagonist’s (an elderly man) death on his own birthday.
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