The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom

Its compellingly affecting themes and lyrical writing will fascinate Mitch Albom's huge readership. Everything you need for every book you read. With a timeless tale, appealing to all, this is a book that readers of fine fiction, and those who loved Tuesdays with Morrie, will treasure. THE FIVE PEOPLE YOU MEET IN HEAVEN is the perfect book to follow TUESDAYS WITH MORRIE. The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom Upgrade to A + Intro Plot Summary Summary & Analysis Themes Quotes Characters Symbols Theme Wheel Teachers and parents Struggling with distance learning Our Teacher Edition on Five People can help. In The Five People You Meet in Heaven, Mitch Albom gives us an astoundingly original story that will change everything you ve ever thought about the afterlife - and the meaning of our lives here on earth.

Throughout there are dramatic flashbacks where we see scenes from his troubled childhood, his years in the army in the Philippines jungle, and with his first and only love, his wife Marguerite. While each guide takes him through heaven, Eddie learns a little bit more about what his time on earth meant, what he was supposed to have learned, and what his true purpose on earth was. Eddie goes to heaven, where he meets five people who were unexpectedly instrumental in some way in his life. The novel's protagonist is an elderly amusement park maintenance worker named Eddie who, while operating a ride called the 'Free Fall', dies while trying to save a young girl who gets in the way of a falling cart that hurtles to earth. THE FIVE PEOPLE YOU MEET IN HEAVEN is a wonderfully moving fable that addresses the meaning of life, and life after death, in the poignant way that made TUESDAYS WITH MORRIE such an astonishing book. On his 83rd birthday, Eddie died in an accident in an attempt to save a little girl’s life.

The first novel in the Heaven series from the internationally bestselling author, Mitch Albom. The Five People You Meet in Heaven, written in 2004 by Mitch Albom, is a story about an amusement park mechanic named Eddie who dies trying to save a little girl. The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom is a story that follows the life and death of Eddie an amusement park employee and a war veteran.