Through Annie, and Eddie before her, readers seek answers to their own questions. Humans are always seeking answers to questions about our existence – what happens when we die, is there an afterlife, and will we then get the answers we've been asking all our lives, and was our time on earth worth it? The premise of Albom's book is endearing. The Next Person You Meet in Heaven (left) and Mitch Albom
In contrast, I was taken aback when I reached the last person in the first part, and watched all of Eddie's fears come to life. Later, she embarks on a journey similar to Eddie's, of meeting the five people who had an impact on her life.Īs Annie makes one mistake after another, readers can predict who she will meet next – even the last person doesn't come as a surprise because you know where the story is going.
All her life, Annie had moved from one 'mistake' to another until she commits a final one – a tragedy barely 24 hours after marrying her childhood sweetheart Paulo.
Annie, now grown up and a registered nurse, is the protagonist here. These questions are answered within the first few pages of The Next Person You Meet in Heaven. The book ends with several unanswered questions, even as Eddie reunites with the love of his life: was his sacrifice successful, did he manage to save little Annie from the cart? What follows is Eddie's journey into the seemingly unknown as he meets the five people who had an impact on his life, one way or the other – a Blue Man his captain from the war the owner of Ruby Pier, Ruby his wife Marguerite and Tala. We just don't know it at the time." Eddie dies trying to save a little girl Annie from a falling cart at Ruby Pier, the amusement park where he worked. The Five People You Meet in Heaven had begun with the protagonist dying: "But all endings are also beginnings. "This novel is a wish, not a dogma, a desire that loved ones like Eddie finds the peace that eluded them on earth, and realise how much we all affect one another, every day of this precious life," he writes in his author notes. His franchise is based on "just one of the many ideas about heaven", where heaven is not a garden but an opportunity to understand life on earth better. But, I realised as I moved from part one to two, I need not have done so, as Albom explains the basics of the story for the benefit of new readers.
0 kommentar(er)
