The Five People You Meet In Heaven Analysis

The thought provoking novel the five people you meet in heaven, portrays that after life is lost, not all is over; people go to heaven to get closure on the life they lived on earth. After death, the main character of the story while in heaven, Eddie, meets five people whose own lives were ultimately affected by his decisions. Through these five people, Eddie's life and meaning on earth gets explained to him. Whether those five people were family or complete strangers, all lives are inter-connected. The novel the five people you meet in heaven, by Mitch Albom, demonstrates how there are consequences to every action, whether being intentional or unintentional; this can be seen through sacrifice, regret and forgiveness. Sacrifice is demonstrated throughout the novel when, the military captain surrendered his life to save his troops, Eddie sacrificing his own life to save a little girl, and Eddie's father saving Mickey Shea. While Eddie was fighting in the war, he had a captain who did everything in his power to protect his troops. While escaping from enemy captivity, the military captain was driving their escape vehicle rushes out to mach sure the path is clear before advancing. In the process of scouting the area he stepped on a land mine and blown up. If the captain did not go ahead, Eddie and the rest of the troops would have drove over that landmine and they all would have perished. The captain is the second person Eddie meets heaven, and tells how sacrifice is an important part of life. "I didn't die for nothing,
The five people you meet in heaven tells that it is important to forgive and make sacrifices for others, because in the end the only thing one's self will regret is not making amends while they have the