The Five People You Meet In Heaven Essay

Life is a thrilling mystery novel, a conglomeration of seemingly random events, pieced together to form a thrilling story. The Five People You meet in Heaven, written by Mitch Albom, is a novel about the afterlife of Eddie, an amusement park maintenance worker. When Eddie arrives in his afterlife, he meets five people who were involved in his life. These five people explain to him the meaning of events that took place in his life. “The Book of Esther” one of the latter books of the Hebrew Bible, is a recounting of the threat of annihilation faced by the Jewish Nation and the nation’s salvation from this threat. The salvation comes about through a series of ordinary events. When looked upon after the story, these events are seen to have been divinely ordained. Both The Five People and “The Book of Esther” convey a similar theme about the nature of occurrence in this world. Although not always immediately recognizable, all events in life have a purpose. Oftentimes, a person does something or learns something, seemingly insignificant, which helps them immensely years later. Other times a person finds himself forced into an undesirable position which upon the passage of time is seen as being their good. A person will live a happy, fulfilled, life if they understand that everything that occurs has a purpose.
Many people go through life miserable, viewing every difficult situation as a misfortune that they were afflicted with. Both of these books teach that the proper way to go through life is to view every challenging occurrence as an integral part of life, placed upon a person them for their own good. If one views each event as purposeful experience, then they can go through their life with confidence and happiness. An obstacle one encounters is no longer a hindrance but rather an experience integral to one’s