The Five People You Meet In Heaven
Have you ever thought about what your destination to heaven would be like or who you would meet there? Well, the book The Five People You Meet in Heaven, by Mitch Albom constructs an image of how the afterlife would exist after an individual has passed away. In addition, the author presents its readers with five significant themes: every action made affects others, lives are sacrificed to save others, forgive others and let go of your anger, love is very powerful, and that there is a purpose for everything; which will all be further discussed.
My brief summary of the book basically regards the main character Eddie, an 83 year old man who works at Ruby Pier (an amusement park) as a maintenance man. Eddie dies and goes to heaven to meet five …show more content…
According to the Mitch Albom bio website, Mitch Albom is prominent for being best-selling author, journalist, screenwriter, playwright, radio and television broadcaster, and musician. In addition, he is also known for his great generosity for he is the founder of five charities known as The Dream Fund, A Time to Help charitable foundation, S.A.Y Detroit charitable foundation, A Hole in the Roof Foundation, and Have Faith Haiti Mission. As stated by the Mitch Albom’s website, The Five People You Meet in Heaven was his first novel and most successful hardcover adult novel. Even after the first novel, he still chose a similar topic pertaining to death, for instance, the next novel Tuesdays with Morrie which is about him spending time with his professor who is dying of the Lou Gehrig’s disease (Mitch Albom Bio 2009). In conclusion, from this brief biography of Mitch Albom, I strongly believe that he chooses to write about topics of death because of his own personal life experiences with the loss of others; hence this is my theory for Mitch selecting such solemn topics because it is his way of continuing to help others such as his readers in this case to learn how to handle a loss or whatever other issues they may be going through more
My brief summary of the book basically regards the main character Eddie, an 83 year old man who works at Ruby Pier (an amusement park) as a maintenance man. Eddie dies and goes to heaven to meet five …show more content…
According to the Mitch Albom bio website, Mitch Albom is prominent for being best-selling author, journalist, screenwriter, playwright, radio and television broadcaster, and musician. In addition, he is also known for his great generosity for he is the founder of five charities known as The Dream Fund, A Time to Help charitable foundation, S.A.Y Detroit charitable foundation, A Hole in the Roof Foundation, and Have Faith Haiti Mission. As stated by the Mitch Albom’s website, The Five People You Meet in Heaven was his first novel and most successful hardcover adult novel. Even after the first novel, he still chose a similar topic pertaining to death, for instance, the next novel Tuesdays with Morrie which is about him spending time with his professor who is dying of the Lou Gehrig’s disease (Mitch Albom Bio 2009). In conclusion, from this brief biography of Mitch Albom, I strongly believe that he chooses to write about topics of death because of his own personal life experiences with the loss of others; hence this is my theory for Mitch selecting such solemn topics because it is his way of continuing to help others such as his readers in this case to learn how to handle a loss or whatever other issues they may be going through more