In the novel, The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom, an 83-year-old man named Eddie has his life taken away. He works at the Ruby Pier, an amusement park. At said amusement park, a cart fell from a new ride called Freddy’s Free Fall. In an attempt to save a little girl from the falling cart, Eddie pushes her out of the way and goes to heaven. In heaven, as one could imagine from the book’s title, Eddie meets five people who have had an impact on his life. One of which, as I have drawn, is Tala, a little Asian girl who Eddie fails to rescue in a burning coal mine during his soldier days. Each person he meets teaches him a lesson; Tala’s lesson is that he didn’t waste his life being an old maintenance man. He kept children, like Tala
