The Five People You Meet in Heaven
參賽者：劉〇堯（會計一A）
名次：第二名
書名：The Five People You Meet in Heaven
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This book Mitch Albom wrote was dedicated to his uncle. Because his uncle thought that he was unimportant as lots of people think during their lives. He wanted his uncle to realize how much he was cared and loved.
The story began with a maintenance who worked in an amusement park called “Ruby Pier”. He started working there since he was young. Though he didn’t like the job, he got no choice but to do it due to the economic purpose. Ironically, the place he worked at was where he died. Eddie lost his life when he was trying to save a little girl’s life.
Eddie then went to another world called “Heaven”. He started to meet people who once had connection with his life. Eddie talked to them, and learned lessons from them.
The first person that Eddie met was “The blue man”. The story between them tells us that even between two strangers can have big influence existed. It is necessary to be nice with people around us, because we’ll never know that perhaps one day they will have quite effect on us. People we do not know may be unfriendly toward us, but we should bear in mind that people live in the world are like a family.
In Eddie’s second stop, he saw his old captain, who always said “No man gets left behind”. Like every commanders during World War, he regarded his soldiers as his own brothers and friends. He saved Eddie’s life, and soon died due to explosion of land mine. The captain showed the spirit of sacrifice, he felt that it was his duty to keep his soldiers safe, even to lose his own life. The spirit is a good goal for us to reach. People nowadays lack of the thought to sacrifice for one another. They must know that even just a little toleration can make our society much better.
The next people Eddie talked to was Ruby. The amusement park Eddie worked in was named after her. She is the person who knew the final living moment of Eddie’s father. Eddie’s father stop talking to him since Eddie was young, they even had a quarrel. He never knew why he should work in the playground instead of purchasing his dream. The only thing he knew was that his father forced him to do it, and also he didn’t have choice because he got to maintain the balance of his family. Ruby told him the importance of forgiveness, to forgive his father and what he said or did to him. I think in this world, no one has responsibility to be nice to us. Only family members take care of each other. We get to love our family, because there is only a time for a lifelong, we can have them as family.
The fourth person was who Eddie loved during his life time, Marguerite. The stories of them tell us to capture every chance we have to be accompanied with our love ones. We never know what will happen to us in anytime. Always keep in good mood, have more toleration to them, and try not to lose temper easily. This way, we won’t lose chance to be with them.
Last person Eddie saw was Tala, a girl Eddie and fellow captives accidentally killed. Thought the girl was killed by their fire, she told to Eddie that how his life was important to others. It reminds us that every person born to this world has his or her own reason. Everyone must have his specialty. It also tells us that people who want to commit suicide must not understand this simple fact. Maybe somebody’s death won’t change the world, but it gets a huge effect on his or her friends and family.
The book used some interesting stories to teach us with different aspects. It gives me a fresh idea of way to think of everything happens around me in daily life. The stories left strong impression in my mind, and the lessons behind them had change the way of my view of life.
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