The Five People You Meet In Heaven
By: Mitch Albom
Author of the #1 New York Times bestseller
"All Endings Are Also Beginnings, We Just Don't Know It At The Time"
~ Mitch Albom
Eddie "Maintenance"
Until Eddie is takes his journey through heaven all we really knew was that he had a wounded knee from the war, and that he worked at Ruby Peir his whole life. As Eddie goes through heaven we(the readers) learn more and more about Eddie and so does he. Eddie was very depressed during his life on earth. Eddie was mostly depressed because, he didn't become that engineer, instead he was drafted into the war and afterwards he had a full life of working at ruby peir because of his knee.
Themes
Each of the themes in the novel, Eddie learns as lessons in heaven; however, we also see these themes exemplified during Eddie’s life on earth. One theme is there is no random acts in life.