The five people you meet in heaven
Eddie's father jumps in after Mickey and saves him instead as they had long been friends and he felt he owed him despite his recent drunken behavior towards his wife. When he awakes in heaven, he is taken on a journey to meet five people whose lives intertwined with his in many ways which he never expected.
Handicapped by this disfigurement, Joseph eventually made a life for himself at Ruby Pier. Tala: There's always a purpose for your life. The war-torn environment around them makes way to the most serene, beautiful nature landscape that Eddie has ever seen.
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He replies that all he would've changed is to have had even more time together with her, for it not to have been cut short like it was by her early death. Synopsis[ edit ] On Eddie's 83rd birthday, one of the amusement park rides malfunctions because of a damaged cable, caused by a car key locking up the mechanics in the ride, and stops halfway through the ride. Memory becomes your partner. As the Captain and his men were making their escape from the prison camp, the men tended Eddie's leg in the back of the truck as the Captain cleared the path ahead. As the story builds to its stunning conclusion, Eddie desperately seeks redemption in the still-unknown last act of his life: Was it a heroic success or a devastating failure? Two of the staff at Ruby Pier are able to rescue the passengers on the ride and then release the ride's cart for inspection- completely oblivious to Eddie's screams as he realized the cart will detach if it is released. Then Eddie moves on to another heaven.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.
Instead, the battlefield became the Captain's final resting place and Eddie learns his second lesson — the importance of sacrifice, both big and small.
Where you are today is a combination of all your past actions, decisions, and the way the people around you have affected you.
Ruby tells Eddie that he needs to forgive his father and tells him that hatred was a deadly weapon, "We think it attacks the person we hate, but hatred has a curved blade, it also attacks us". He smoked cigars [18] and was a card player.
