Marguerite, who has been keeping her dreams to have children of her own, turns out to be infertile but decides to not dwell in perturb and sorrow. The Blue Man, even when his own father disowned him out of embarrassment for how he has become, picks himself up and joins the Ruby Pier’s freak show and comes to terms with the way he is. Albom also lets the readers to grasp the idea of accepting oneself as who we are regardless of any mishap and dearth we are in possession of through The Blue Man and Eddie’s wife, Marguerite. There is not any hint of enthusiasm despite his chaotic working environment in the amusement park. Eddie is a broken man when he comes back from the war.
Eddie as the main character is supported by several other astounding supporting characters and their personas are all a delight to get involved with. Not only is it somehow spiritual, it is definitely a wake up call for us to amend the relationship that we are building in real life as it is what shapes us into the person we are in the present.Ĭonflicts are also shown in this masterpiece, embedded by several characters. It is interesting how in this book, the first chapter started at the ends of Eddie’s life, giving the readers a different kind of experience.
He gets to choose his heaven once he is done meeting all five of them. He meets each person in his/her heaven and he has to go through 5 different heavens to meet all the said people and each of them is relevant to his life. There, he meets 5 people whose purpose is to show him the true value and meaning of his life. Eddie awakes in the afterlife and reaches heaven. On the day of his 83 rd birthday, he faced his death in attempt to save a little girl from a falling cart. He despised the life he had been living but to no avail, he kept on and on. He is to fix broken rides on the park in which he had always deemed as uninspired life. Mitch Albom takes us to the life of an old wounded war veteran who soon after has been living the rest of his life as a maintenance man at an amusement park. Thus, what makes this book interesting is how the author extended a pristine insight on the afterlife that makes those who read it long for it to be how it is for their upcoming journey. Afterlife is only known by the dead but unknown to those who still live.
As interesting as its title, this novel offers a whole different outlook on the subject of life and death as well as the disparate possibilities of the afterlife. Upon its released, this book has been on the New York Times best seller list for 95 weeks straight and was then turned into a movie in the following year, starring John Voight. The Five People You Meet in Heaven was written by Mitch Albom and was first published in 2003. Reviewed by Siti Debitha Dawinda, SK Togop Darat Ranau. Literary Awards: Lincoln Award Nominee (2008) Paperback, First, 196 pages. Publisher: Hyperion (first published September 1st 2003). Siti Syazurah Binti Mohd Anwar Zurah Anwar.
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