Summary: After showing the crazies how to juggle and then beating them to death, Eddie and his army buddies are finally free. While on the escape they burn the place that has held them captive for the longst time. While watching the blaze Eddie suddenly sees what e thinks is a person, buring along with the building. Eddie being the brave character he is, tried his hardest to save a life. The captian, not wanting eddie to risk his life shot eddie in the leg.
Key Points:
1. Eddie and his crew escape
2. They burn the place down
3. Eddie sees someone burning
4. Eddie goes to save them
5. The captian shoots Eddie
6. Eddie Gets mad @ the captian
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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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2 comments:
This summary was very well written, and I agree with many of the key points. When Eddie was juggling, he was able to sing and then get the Captains attention with out letting the crazies realize what he was doing. Another key point would be when you find out that the Captain was blown up.
I agree as well with the summary. He distracts the people keeping them prisoner by amusing them and entertaining them, all the while secretly giving instructions out to his team about what to do. The key points are great, too, but another one would be when the Captain tells Eddie he was the one he shot him to keep him alive.
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