The Captain tells Eddie that the blue man was a part of his life, part of why he lived and how he lived. I think this could be related to everyones life because even if you dont notice it, there are many people that affect your life in different ways. You may not realize it yet but later on in life you might figure out how they really helped you.
The Captain talks a lot about sacrifice. He says "Sacrifice is a part of life. Its supposed to be. It's not something to regret. It's something to aspire to." I believe sacrifices are made by most people so i can relate this quote to everyones life. This is because they should make sacrifices for others and realize the good side of it, not the negative sides of the sacrifice.
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The Five People You Meet in Heaven
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Part melodrama and part parable, Mitch Albom's The Five People You Meet in Heaven weaves together three stories, all told about the same man: 83-year-old Eddie, the head maintenance person at Ruby Point Amusement Park. As the novel opens, readers are told that Eddie, unsuspecting, is only minutes away from death as he goes about his typical business at the park. Albom then traces Eddie's world through his tragic final moments, his funeral, and the ensuing days as friends clean out his apartment and adjust to life without him. In alternating sections, Albom flashes back to Eddie's birthdays, telling his life story as a kind of progress report over candles and cake each year. And in the third and last thread of the novel, Albom follows Eddie into heaven where the maintenance man sequentially encounters five pivotal figures from his life (a la A Christmas Carol). Each person has been waiting for him in heaven, and, as Albom reveals, each life (and death) was woven into Eddie's own in ways he never suspected. Each soul has a story to tell, a secret to reveal, and a lesson to share. Through them Eddie understands the meaning of his own life even as his arrival brings closure to theirs.
Albom takes a big risk with the novel; such a story can easily veer into the saccharine and preachy, and this one does in moments. But, for the most part, Albom's telling remains poignant and is occasionally profound. Even with its flaws, The Five People You Meet in Heaven is a small, pure, and simple book that will find good company on a shelf next to It's A Wonderful Life. --Patrick O'Kelley
Albom takes a big risk with the novel; such a story can easily veer into the saccharine and preachy, and this one does in moments. But, for the most part, Albom's telling remains poignant and is occasionally profound. Even with its flaws, The Five People You Meet in Heaven is a small, pure, and simple book that will find good company on a shelf next to It's A Wonderful Life. --Patrick O'Kelley
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1 comment:
- I agree with how you may not realize whose lives you really effect. It makes you think of how in the book Eddie thought after the ball went into road, the car stopped, and everything from there on was normal. You never know what the other side of the story is, like how what happened to the Blue Man after that ball went into the road. I wonder what little things I have done in my life have affected other people more than I would know.
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