The unique novel that Mitch Albom wrote, The Five People you Meet in Heaven, tells a story of an old eighty-three old man named Eddie. The eighty-three old man that plays the main character in the book, is Albom’s real uncle in reality. When growing up and hearing story’s about his family, the story’s about his uncle always stayed with him. As his uncle aged, he saw him as a sad man who never had true love for anybody. As Mitch began to think about his ageing uncle, he wondered about heaven. He began to explore the idea that heaven could be a place of where your past life was told to you and explained to you through five different people throughout varies different stages of your life. When these five people tell the story of your life, you begin to reflect upon the past experiences and become touched by them. As the story is related to Albom’s uncle in real life, Albom relates the concept of the story to his beliefs. By sharing his belief of life after death shows his inability to except death. The Five People You Meet in Heaven is a tale of life beyond death that was a tribute and celebration to Mitch Albom’s uncle.
When Mitch Albom was writing the Five People You Meet in Heaven, he based the book on an eighty three old man, Eddie. The book opens up with Eddie being involved in a terrible accident where he is a maintenance man at Ruby Point Amusement Grounds. Once Eddie has passed on, the book travels through his life where he meets five people that have been affected during his lifetime. When Eddie has arrived in heaven, the purpose of the five people is to explain the events that have occurred to Eddie during his lifetime. As Eddie sees the effect has had on the individuals that he has left behind, he starts to realize that he served purpose not only in his life but also in others. Despite feeling that he lived a nothing life and had a nothing job, his last memory on earth was saving a little girl from her own death. As the main character of the book, Eddie is portrayed has an old man with nothing left for him but death. He proves to the reader once he is heaven that he serves a purpose in anyone’s life. Through pieces of his life that you see and read, you see Eddie has an important human being on earth as well as in heaven. Without the character Eddie, the book would have served no purpose but instead you see a character or a human being that has lived his life to the fullest
As a reader of any book you base your reactions on the writers writing. Whenever reading something and something jumps out at you, it’s because the writer uses specific detail to make the writing interesting. Detail is the simple use of facts that make any work of literature interesting for you to read. When reading the novel, The Five People You Meet in Heaven, Mitch Albom uses simple facts to help to keep the reader interested in his writing. "At the time of his death, Eddie was an old man with a barrel chest and a torso as squat as a soup can," Albom wrote. The word use of “barrel,” “torso,” and “squat” are simple use of facts or words that allows the reader to stay “in tuned” with a work of literature. Without the simple use of these words, Albom’s style of writing would be considered uneventful and indescribable. When Albom beings to describe the five different people that Eddie meets, he gave a strong but brief description through the use of great detail about each individual. Throughout the novel, the simple use of detail that Mitch Albom provided to reader, gave the reader a better outlook on what he was writing allowing you to understand the context of this literature.