The Significance Of Eddie In The Five People You Meet In Heaven

The Five People You Meet In Heaven in Heaven by Mitch Albom, the main character Eddie is an 83 years old man, who work maintaining in the Ruby Pier. Ruby Pier is an amusement, where Eddie spent his whole life to work even the last hour before he died. This story is about life after death, as Eddie’s soul go to a place named heaven after he died. There are 5 people Eddie meet in heaven, they teach him their wisdom of the significance of life and the value of Eddie’s life. In the first place, the blue man tells Eddie, “that there are no random acts. That we are all connected. That you can no more separate one separate one life from another than you can separate a breeze from the wind.” (ALBOM 48) This has become one of the significance in Eddie’s life. Thus, Eddie understood how people connected how people connected each other by his past life experiences with the forgiveness, acceptance and the importance of love.
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Eddie find his certain love from when he was a boy, he loves her deeply during his life, even after they both go to heaven. Her name is Marguerite, she died before Eddie but she met him again in the heaven. Eddie told Marguerite that after she died, he thought he lost his everything, he lost the only woman he ever loved. Marguerite tells him, “Lost love is still love, Eddie. It takes a different form, that’s all. You can not see their smile or bring them food or tousle their hair or move them around a dance floor. But when those senses weaken, another heightens. Memory becomes your partner. You nurture it. You hold it. You dance with it.” (Albom 173) This is a very powerful explanation of love, which depicts love is really exist, not just states of mind. As Marguerite is the pillar of Eddie’s heart, he would love her during his whole