Analysis Of The Movie Heaven Is For Real

The movie, “Heaven Is for Real”, is based on a true event’s that happened to a preacher named Todd Burpo and his family. Him and his wife and two children live in a small town called Imperial, Nebraska. Everyone in this small religious town helped those in need of prayer or support; and put forth their time and money to the Crossroads Wesleyan Church. The people of the town looked up to Mr. Burpo as he was their preacher and loved him and his family dearly. The Burpos family life started to head south when Mr. Burpos’ son had become very sick and had to be rushed to the emergency room to find out what was wrong with him. That’s when Colton Burpo the son, healed and started to speak of his experience in Heaven. Mr. Burpo must find a way of …show more content…
Burpo would be called to help families who would have loved ones that were very sick and in need of prayer. Colton would tag along to these meetings with his father and during those times he would watch closely to his father speak to them. It did not scare Colton at all, which was a concern for Mrs. Burpo at the time, but Coltons love for Jesus only grew stronger. During a town baseball game, Mr. Burpo had injury due to sliding into third base along with kidney stones that set him back from preaching for a couple of weeks. Medical bills started to pile up along with the other bills that had to be paid. Mrs. Burpo was insisting on getting a job just to help make ends meet. As time went on, some of the people that attended church would go by Mr. Burpo’s house and check on him and ask, when he would be able to come back, they were all concerned. His wife wanted to just get away to Denver for a couple days before he went back to preaching, so they did. Mr. Burpo and his family went to a butterfly farm on this trip, where his daughter, Cassie, held a spider, but Colton was too scared to hold it and hid behind his …show more content…
Burpo. They were deciding whether or not he was capable of preaching at their church anymore. Mr.Burpo couldn’t understand why some people were scared that his son said what he had said when he woke up from surgery. He asked, “what are you afraid of, you believe in heaven, don’t you?” Mr. Burpo is trying to find a way to make not only himself believe his son but others around him. It went from newspapers to the town people making jokes at him when he went out to eat at local restaurants. Mr. Burpo went from long nights at home searching online to asking his son more questions about what he saw while he was in