The Five People You Meet in Heaven- Brittany Lanum

The book I read was called “the five people you meet in heaven” by Mitch Albom. Eddie is a war veteran who feels trapped in a meaningless life of fixing amusement rides at a seaside park by the name of Ruby Pier. As the park has changed over the years so, has Eddie, from optimistic youth to cranky old age. His days are a dull routine of work, loneliness, and regret. Then, on his 83rd birthday, Eddie dies in an accident, trying to save a little girl from a falling cart. With his final breath, he feels two small hands in his and then nothing. He wakes up in the afterlife, where he learns that heaven is not exactly what he thinks, but a place where your life on earth is explained to you by five people who were in it. These people may have been loved ones or strangers. Yet each of them changed your path forever. One by one, Eddie's five people illuminate the unseen connections of his life on earth. The Blue Man is the first person Eddie meets in heaven. Eddie did not know the Blue Man when he was a child but his actions were responsible for the Blue Man’s death. The Captain is the second person Eddie meets in heaven and is also his former captain in World War II. Ruby is the third person that Eddie meets in heaven. When Eddie meets Ruby, in heaven, she is elderly; however when Ruby was younger, she worked as a waitress at a diner in Eddie’s town. Marguerite was the fourth person that Eddie met in heaven. Marguerite was the love of Eddie’s life; when he was young he met her at the pier and she then continued to be the happiness in Eddie’s life until she died and he became unhappy. I have completely finished this book and figured out who the last person is that he meets, but so far this book is very interesting and I like it.