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Five People Part 1
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What is the purpose of Heaven according to the Blue Man? | To understand what happened in your life on Earth |
| What is Eddie's job? | He works maintenance at Ruby Pier |
| Eddie works with a young man at Ruby Pier. What is his name? | Dominguez |
| What killed Eddie? | Cart #2 of Freddy's Free Fall |
| Which brother is older? | Joe |
| What is the meaning of the following quotation, "This is the greatest gift God can give you: to understand what happened in your life. To have it explained. It is the peace you have been searching for."? | Understanding what happened to you throughout your life and why it happened will give you peace. |
| The five people you meet are meant to | explain a lesson to you about your life so you can understand your life on Earth |
| How did the Blue Man die? | He died from a heart attack |
| The Blue Man's Lesson | We are all connected. We affect the lives of those around us |
| The Blue Man's car crash was caused by | Eddie racing into the street trying to get his baseball. |
| Why was it important for Eddie to learn the Blue Man's lesson? | Eddie had no idea that he had caused someone's death. He needed to see that he played a role in other people's lives. |
| Who is the author of The Five People You Meet in Heaven | Mitch Albom |
| Setting | the time and place in which a story occurs. It includes the social culture and historical period that affects the story. It also includes how characters feel and are affected by the time and place. |
| Characterization | Characterization-The overall description of a character that includes the following: what a character says what a character looks like the character’s actions, what others say about a character. |
| Characterization is developed through | what a character says what a character looks like the character’s actions, what others say about a character. |
| Symbol/Symbolism | A symbol uses an object or action that means something more than its literal meaning. Characters, objects, events and settings can all be symbolic in that they represent something else beyond themselves. |
| Flashback | An interruption in a story that takes you back to an earlier time to give you further background about a story |
| Suspense | the intense feeling that an audience goes through while waiting for the outcome of certain events. It basically leaves the reader holding their breath and wanting more information |
| "But all endings are also beginnings. We just don't know it at the time." | Eddie's death is a beginning of the book and his journey through heaven. |
| "She was like a wound beneath an old bandage, and he had grown more used to the bandage." | Eddie was deeply hurt by Marguerite's death. He was lonely and the bandage was trying to move on with his life. Unfortunately, he got used to not having her around. |
| "No story sits by itself. Sometimes storied meet at corners and sometimes they cover one another completely, like stones beneath a river." | Everyone's life affects those that they are around. The choices they make, the words they say, their actions all impact the lives of those around them in profound ways. |
| "People often belittle the place where they were born. But heaven can be found in the most unlikely of corners." | Eddie was upset that Ruby Pier was where he started his journey through heaven because he always wanted away from the place, without realizing that it gave the Blue Man comfort and was the perfect place to give the Blue Man what he needed. |
| "This is the greatest gift God can give to you; to understand what happened in your life. To have it explained. It is the peace you have been searching for." | The purpose of heaven is to explain why things happened in your life and bring peace to you about anything you were upset about in your life. |
| "People think of Heaven as a paradise garden, a place where they can float on clouds and laze in rivers and mountains. But scenery without solace is meaningless. | The purpose of heaven is to provide solace, or comfort to you. You can understand why things that upset you happened and feel at peace about them now. |
| "There are no random acts...we are all connected... you can no more separate one life from another than you can separate a breeze from the wind. | Everyone's life impacts those around us. All of the things we do in lie affect those that are around us whether we know it or not. |
| "Fairness does not govern life and death. If it did, no good person would ever die." | Death does not happen because you were a bad person. Death is inevitable for everyone. |
| "The human spirit knows deep down that all lives intersect. Death doesn't just take someone, it misses someone else, and in the small distance between being taken and being missed, all lives are changed. | All of our lives, decisions, words, choices affect those around us. When someone dies their loss also impacts those around them. |
| "Strangers are just family you have yet to come to know. " | When you get to know a person, you understand them and they begin to feel like family |
| "No life is a waste. The only time we waste is the time we spend thinking we are alone." | We are not alone even if we think that. The time we spend thinking that we do not have people in our lives is meaningless. |
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