How Does Eddie's Relationship In The Five People You Meet In Heaven

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In the novel The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom, Eddie, an 83 year old man spends his life feeling worthless and working in maintenance at Ruby Pier, a seaside amusement park. He developed several positive and negative bonds with people which created many relationships that greatly impacted his ¨heaven¨. Throughout Eddie´s life, he followed in his fathers footsteps working at the pier but had many thoughts about leaving and making a life for himself. However, one day changed his life forever. A ride called ¨Freddys Free Fall¨ started malfunctioning. He hustled over to the ride to assist, but saw a little girl under the cart. Right when it fell he ran over to push the girl named Amy or Annie away but the cart fell and that was …show more content…

fading behind a ribbon of white clouds" (Albom 154). After their wedding, Eddie remembers walking with her through "pools of lamplight" (Albom 155). These images illustrate the fact that Marguerite was the bright spot in Eddie's life; she was a candle to guide him through the darkness. Once she died he felt like a piece of himself had gone with her. Eddie’s birthdays passed unoticed, while watching his friends and loved ones die off one by one. He is aware of his fragile mortality and later becomes isolated as he gets older. He feels lonely due to there being noone whom he can discuss his feelings of confusion, loss and regret to. The young become masters of the world around him, immersed in self- importance, while Eddie watches from the sidelines. He has gotten off the train that forges into the future; he is waiting for a new journey to begin. It is like his life had stopped moving and he was stuck. Eddie's outlook becomes decidedly pessimistic after Marguerite dies. Marrying her is the only decision he never feels regretful about. Eddie seems to have wanted something different for every other aspect of his life and once Marguerite is gone, the color recedes from Eddie's world. However once he meets her in Heaven he finally has someone to discuss all his emotions and memories he had been holding up inside of himself to. After seeing her again that piece that she had taken from him when she passed away had finally returned back to his

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