In the The 5 People You Meet in Heaven, the main dynamic character, Eddie. This is because he goes through many events that change the way he approaches and views life.
In the beginning of the story, Eddie dies at the age of eighty-three years of age. Then, through flashbacks, the author reveals major events in Eddie’s life. Beginning with Eddie’s job as a maintenance man at Ruby Pier. At Ruby Pier, Eddie is in charge of the rides along with his assistant, Dominguez. In the first chapter, the reader learns about the notable accident-free safety record at Ruby Pier.
We also learn about a man who loses his car keys and this causes the most popular ride, Freddy’s Free Fall to glitch. Eventually, Eddie fixes the ride and starts is again. But, as it begins again, he realizes that there is a cable that does not look right. He tries to get the people’s attention, but no one notices him. No one realizes that this cable can cause all of the carts to fall and injure someone. Suddenly, he notices a cart fall towards a little girl. He runs and jumps to knock the girl out of the way. This was the last thing that Eddie will remember.
In the following chapters, Eddie reminesces on birthday moments and flashes back to moments in heaven. in each chapter, he meets a person in heaven and this person teaches him a lesson. For example, the first person he meets is the Blue Man, from a freak show on the Pier. The Blue Man reveals that the death of him was Eddie’s fault. When Eddie was eight, he ran in front of the Blue man’s car, and he swirved to prevent from hitting Eddie. In heaven, Eddie is taught a lesson: there are no random acts.
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Hanging Woman Creek is set in an era of American expansion when the major conflict of the Indian population was not much of a worry. The bigger worry for most men on the frontier was other whites. Bandits were plentiful, and the law was dealt out by the people. The book starts out in Chicago, concerning a man who had just been released from an overnight stay in prison. This man is called Pike, and ...
Eventually, Eddie meets his captain from a war. The captain was killed by a landmine as they were attempting to escape several months of captivity in the Philippines. But, Eddie notices a child under a burning tent. He ran to save her, but he was shot in the leg. The captain informs him that he was the one who shot Eddie in the leg to prevent him from running into the fire. We learn that due to Eddie’s injury, he took the job of being a maintenance man at Ruby Pier. The lesson that the captain teaches Eddie is that no one dies for nothing and that when you sacrifice something like a leg, you always gain something
The last two people that Eddie meet in heaven are Ruby and Marguerite, his wife. Ruby takes Eddie to meet his father, she shows Eddie a time in his kitchen where one of his father’s friend tries to assault Eddie’s mother. Eddie’s father chases his friend with a hammer, but ends up saving him from a suicidal attempt. The lesson he learned is that anger is self-destructive. .The last person he meets is his wife, who tells him about the time when he was gambling excessively at a race track, Eddie lost all of his money, she found this out and drove to the race track heated. On her way to him, she got into and accident. She recovers from her injuries but later she dies of a brain tumor. She teaches him the value of love and loss.
