Michael Albom's The Five People You Meet In Heaven
There are many different types of text structure that each results in different interpretations of literary texts. Some authors use several text structures in a single written piece. Michael Albom’s The Five People You Meet in Heaven tells the story of the death and aftermath of maintenance worker Eddie. An example of En Media Res, the book begins “This is a story about a man named Eddie and it begins at the end with Eddie dying in the sun.” (Albom 1) Albom’s use of Cause and Effect structure or Sequence structure throughout the book can be analyzed by understanding chronology of Eddie’s life, the experience of heaven, and the present time. The text begins at the end with Eddie's death. This allows the reader to focus on the events happening leading up to this death starting way back. In regards to the Sequence text structure, the author uses repetends in chronological order to help explain the events leading to Eddie’s death at the pier. “It is 1920, a crowded hospital in one of the poorest sections of the city.” (Albom 19) Each of these
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The clarity given in the chapter titles is part of the text structure and organizes the novel in a way that makes the reader not have to follow who is who or where the setting is. It makes that part easy which in turn make understanding and analyzing the themes the point and not focusing on the basic things. En Media Res also does this by starting the story in a place other than the beginning so that the reader can follow the journey which just so happens to be the name of the first chapter of Albom’s award winning novel The Five People You Meet in Heaven. It is structured for ease of clarification but a challenge put embark on the quest of who Eddie really was and how his five people changed his life in Heaven and on
The clarity given in the chapter titles is part of the text structure and organizes the novel in a way that makes the reader not have to follow who is who or where the setting is. It makes that part easy which in turn make understanding and analyzing the themes the point and not focusing on the basic things. En Media Res also does this by starting the story in a place other than the beginning so that the reader can follow the journey which just so happens to be the name of the first chapter of Albom’s award winning novel The Five People You Meet in Heaven. It is structured for ease of clarification but a challenge put embark on the quest of who Eddie really was and how his five people changed his life in Heaven and on