The Five People you Meet in Heaven

 

The other week I gave my local bookstore a visit and sadly they did not have the books I wanted ( they were actually out of stock). One of the books I wanted to read was “ The first Phone Call from Heaven” by Mitch Albom. The bookstore did not have that in stock but they had other books by the same author in stock, so I decided to give them a try. One of the books was titled “ The five people you meet in heave” and that was definitely one of the best reads of 2014 so far. That book was a complete turn in my usual reads and it was totally worth the time I spent on it, and the following is my review of the book. 

Just as the title implies, the story revolves around the 5 people the main character meets in heaven when he dies and each person tells him a story and a lesson. The story told by each person( some who the main character do not know) is indirectly related to the lead and that’s what made the book hard to put down. The other factor that made the book worth reading was the lesson told by each person met by the lead “Eddie” in heaven.

Lesson 1:

 “Strangers,” the Blue man said, “ are just family you have yet to come to know” 

Lesson 2: 

Sometimes you have to hurt the ones you care about in order to help them move on. 

Lesson 3: 

Strangers you never knew or met can walk into your life to teach you a lesson “ Forgive, forgive, forgive, forgive,forgive, forget and move on” 

 Lesson 4:

Love has no limits even when the person you love the most leaves this world before you. 

Lesson 5:

 Although you killed me, I held you tight to bring you up here and keep you safe. The lesson that kept me re-reading the page was the fifth lesson that was told by the little girl Eddie burns when he was at war. They ( the group of soldiers with Eddie) the mine they were forced to work in on fire and Eddie suddenly sees a small figure running into the fire. The ironic part is when Eddie keeps on wondering whether he saved the little girl in park when the accident happened and throughout the book he mentions her little hands that caught him for protection. He thought it was the girl from the park, but the real little hands belonged to the girl that walked back to the fire set up by Eddie and she held him to keep him safe. 

So I see there was an adaptation of the book in 2004? I shall check it out now that I read the book!