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The Five People You Meet In Heaven By Mitch Albom
One of the goals in life is for people to learn important lessons from other people and to also learn important lessons from themselves. Life is like a bumpy road and it tends to have many obstacles, which can lead to people not doing the right thing. Sometimes, people cannot even tell if they are doing the wrong thing. Imagine if in heaven people could learn lessons from other connected or related people in their lives. In The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom, both Eddie and I have been affected by the lessons of there are no random acts in life, lives are sacrificed to save others, and forgiveness and letting go of anger. Eddie and I learned about people’s choices and acts, and how they might affect other people and changed both our perspectives on the …show more content…
First of all, the lesson that Eddie learned is that there are no random acts in life. A quote that shows the lesson Eddie learned from the Blue Man: “That there are no random acts. That we are all connected. That you can no more separate one life from another than you can separate a breeze from the wind” (Albom 50). The quote from the Blue Man explains that acts happen for a reason so it can have another effect on someone else. Second of all, the lesson has affected Eddie because it made him regret a small choice he made because of how it affected someone else. A quote that shows how Eddie is affected: “Eddie shook his head. “We were throwing a ball. It was my stupidity, running out there like that. Why should you have to die on account of me? It ain’t fair.” The Blue Man held out his hand. “Fairness,” he said, “does not govern life and death. If it did, no good person would ever die young” (Albom 51). Eddie runs into the street to retrieve a ball, and the Blue Man almost hit him, resulting in the Blue Man suffering from a heart attack and then dying. The quote shows that Eddie is affected by the lesson because it makes him feel horrible that his stupid and small

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