Who are the 5 People you meet in Heaven? For Eddie, those five people are not quite who he expected. But even so, the 5 People You Meet in Heaven can help you move on to the afterlife, just like they did for Eddie. Eddie’s First Person: The Blue Man Every story has different angles. It turns out that the young boy chasing the baseball was Eddie on his seventh birthday. Eddie unknowingly killed the Blue Man. The Blue Man’s Lesson The next thing Eddie knows, he is floating over a vast sea; there is no fear, only silence. When he fully awakens, he feels wonderful and realizes that he is young again, at the Ruby Pier of his childhood. Eddie is inexplicably drawn to the freak show, where he meets a man whose skin is blue. The Blue Man explains that there are “five people you meet in heaven” who have been chosen to help you understand your life on earth. The Blue Man is Eddie’s first person; conversely, Eddie is the Blue Man’s second person. Seized by curiosity, Eddie asks, “What...killed...you?” and the Blue Man responds, “You did.” Oh, and Albom apparently never heard of the "show, don't tell" rule when it comes to establishing character and showing reactions. I guess everyone in Heaven describes their mental processes in flagrant detail. There's also the issue of proclamations that sound wise at first, but crumble under any amount of thought. For example, there's a line to the effect of "Sometimes, when you sacrifice something you don't lose it. You just give it to someone else." Now, I haven't a dictionary in front of me to help me through this moral morass, but I fail to see the difference off the top of my head.

An elegant old woman tells Eddie that he shouldn’t be angry at his father, because he can’t hear Eddie’s calls. The woman introduces herself as Ruby. This is another person Eddie has never met, and is the third of the five people you meet in heaven. Ruby’s Story The main character, Eddie, is an angry old man. But when he dies saving a little girl, his journey to Heaven reveals much more. In The Five People You Meet in Heaven, themes like forgiveness and regret are explored. Read more about the most important The Five People You Meet in Heaven themes. The Five People You Meet in Heaven: Themes Even if you haven't read the book, you will be instantly enchanted by the show's believable characters, a story with unexpected twists, lavish settings and even some of the most emotional scenes to be shown on TV (that's really next to the equally powerful montage scenes from Frank Herbert's Children of Dune). Those who have watched Tim Burton's adaptation of Big Fish will also find some similarities in this show too, in terms of its whimsical, fairy tale-like narration. Eddie finds himself in a small, round room filled with doors. Behind each door is a different wedding in a different country. He enters one door to find a beautiful Italian wedding. Eddie sees a young woman handing out candied almonds. The woman is his wife, Marguerite.She is the one Eddie expected to meet when he thought about the 5 people you meet in heaven. Marguerite’s Story

Eddie and Marguerite’s wedding took place in a small Chinese restaurant. They used the same chairs for the ceremony and the reception. There was an accordion player. Marguerite joked that they should have played bingo. When the simple reception was over, Marguerite pulled a pink sweater over her wedding dress and walked home with Eddie in the rain. They held hands, and everything felt safe. Eddie meets his former captain from the army, who reminds Eddie of their time together as prisoners of war in a forced labor camp in the Philippines. Their group burned the camp during their escape and Eddie, while running away, remembers seeing a shadow move in one of the huts. The Captain confesses that he shot Eddie in the leg to prevent Eddie from chasing the shadow into the fire. This saved Eddie's life despite leaving him with a lifelong severe limp. Eddie then learns how the Captain died: he stepped on a land mine that would have killed all the men had he not set it off. Ruby and Eddie stand. Finally, Eddie admits to Ruby that he hated his father. He hated him for the way he was treated his whole life. Ruby asks Eddie to learn this lesson from her story: Holding onto anger is poisonous. You may think anger will act as a weapon toward others, but it only hurts yourself.

In August 2015, Albom opened the Detroit Water Ice Factory, located at 1014 Woodward Avenue in downtown Detroit. A charitable retail operation, DWIF offers a delicious frozen dessert with 100% of all profits going to help Detroit’s neediest through SAY Detroit. Employees are often members of SAY Detroit partner programs.Detroit Water Ice launched a line of gourmet popcorn called Brown Bag Popcorn, which has grown into its very own sister brand to DWIF and opened its own retail store in The Somerset Collection in Troy, MI in 2019. The five people Eddie meets include the Blue Man, a character from his childhood who was an unhappy member of the carnival freak show; the Captain, his commanding officer when he fought in the Philippines during the war; Ruby, a woman who lived before his time and for whom his workplace was named; Marguerite, the beloved wife who had been taken from him far too soon; and Tala, a Filipino child he had unknowingly killed in the midst of a firefight during his deployment overseas. From each of these people, Eddie learns a lesson that brings him to an understanding of his own life's significance. The Blue Man, whose death Eddie inadvertently caused by the simple act of chasing a ball into the street as a young boy, teaches him that everyone is connected and that no life is a waste. The Captain, who inflicted a crippling leg injury on Eddie but saved his life in doing so, helps him see that sacrifice is worth aspiring to and that in every loss there is gain. Ruby shows Eddie that people who lived before one's lifetime can affect one's life as profoundly as contemporaries can and that some of his own actions had an effect on people not yet born; she also draws him to an understanding of the father who could not love him, which in turn allows him to forgive. Marguerite, Eddie's cherished wife, shows him proof that love lasts forever. Tala, in addition to revealing to Eddie that he did save the life of the child for whom he died, helps him realize that "the simple, mundane things [he] had done in his life" made all the difference to a host of others whom he never even knew. In the end, Eddie finds peace, having learned the secret of heaven: Eddie is granted an abundance of time with Marguerite, and they spend it walking through the weddings and talking about everything under the sun. Even though Marguerite always thought of it as home, Eddie tells her he is sorry he never got them away from Ruby Pier, blaming “his father, his leg, and the war.” Marguerite asks him what happened during the war, but Eddie can only respond, “I lost myself.” Eddie always felt that Marguerite was taken from him too soon, and he continued loving her even after she was gone. Marguerite tells him, “Lost love is still love.” Eddie’s love for her was so strong she felt it even in heaven. The two dance now, holding each other close. Eddie closes his eyes, and when he opens them again, Marguerite is gone.

For One More Day

Just as Eddie sent the last building up in flames, he saw a small shadow moving inside. He became manic, thinking he left a child burning inside. He couldn’t bring himself to leave the burning building until he felt an intense pain in his leg. As a confirmed atheist, my first thought, of course, is why should an omniscient, omnibenevolent and omnipotent god, subject his loving creations to such pain during their lifetime? But, that aside, even if I accepted the notion of a god and a heaven, I found THE FIVE PEOPLE YOU MEET IN HEAVEN to be too simplistic, too pat, too cute and too saccharine by half. Such advice as it offered was entirely obvious to anyone who gives a moment’s consideration to life and its vagaries and none of its supposedly “pithy” commentary or observations constituted anything that might improve my time on this planet. It is a tale of a life on earth. It’s a tale of life beyond it. It’s a fable about love, a warning about war, and a nod of the cap to the real people of this world, the ones who never get their name in lights.

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That's the beauty of this work of fiction, the entrapment of the lives of 6 different people as if they are all one. The thing I most love about Mitch Albom is his narrating style; there was not even a single dull or slow moment while reading his work. You and your imagination flow as the story moves forward. Religion and whether or not you believe in heaven or the afterlife is obviously a very personal thing and therefore I wouldn’t necessarily recommend this book to everyone. The book wasn’t overly religious nor was it preachy either, and I do think non-religious people could still enjoy the story, but that’s up to each reader to decide! I expected this movie to be sappy and maudlin and in a way it was, but it was so well done I was quite moved by it. Eddie's trip to Heaven is much like Scrooge's in "A Christmas Carol," but instead of three ghostly guides, Eddie is met by five people who touched his life or who were affected by his and who ease his transition to the great beyond. It's a fantasy world with frightening war scenes and innocent love scenes, and while I watched I couldn't help but think of my own life, quite ordinary like Eddie's, but who knows how many I have affected for better or worse?