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"The Five People You Meet in Heaven" by Mitch Albom is an outstanding and heartwarming novel in which the author provokes strong sentiment in his readers while instilling a moral within every chapter.
The protagonist of the story, Eddie, encounters five people in heaven whose lives he has influenced. In one scene, Eddie meets a man who sacrificed his own life in order to save Eddie's. Because Eddie was too young to understand what had happened at that point in time, he was never able to acknowledge the Blue man for his heroic deed. Reading this scene made me both melancholy and reflective. The pleasures we find in life often cause our surroundings to be neglected; the people who may seem to just pass by may actually provide us with the greatest simplicities of life.
By provoking these thoughts, Mitch Albom changed the way I viewed the people around me. Surely people have affected my life positively in ways I am unaware of and to never credit them for their generosity is impertinent. In fact, these thoughts provide the wiring which connect the morals of the book to my own existence. This brilliant literary work captures the essence of the unexamined aspects of life, something only a handful of authors have accomplished.
"The Five People You Meet in Heaven" by Mitch Albom is an outstanding and heartwarming novel in which the author provokes strong sentiment in his readers while instilling a moral within every chapter.
The protagonist of the story, Eddie, encounters five people in heaven whose lives he has influenced. In one scene, Eddie meets a man who sacrificed his own life in order to save Eddie's. Because Eddie was too young to understand what had happened at that point in time, he was never able to acknowledge the Blue man for his heroic deed. Reading this scene made me both melancholy and reflective. The pleasures we find in life often cause our surroundings to be neglected; the people who may seem to just pass by may actually provide us with the greatest simplicities of life.
By provoking these thoughts, Mitch Albom changed the way I viewed the people around me. Surely people have affected my life positively in ways I am unaware of and to never credit them for their generosity is impertinent. In fact, these thoughts provide the wiring which connect the morals of the book to my own existence. This brilliant literary work captures the essence of the unexamined aspects of life, something only a handful of authors have accomplished.
