Title: The Five People You Meet in Heaven
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4The Five People You Meet in Heaven
- From the title, what do you think the book will
be about? - What initially grabs your attention in the book?
5The Five People You Meet in Heaven
- Draw a picture of what Eddie looks like.
- Eddie exists in a weary state of acceptance.
What do you think this means? How did Eddie come
to be in this state?
6The Five People You Meet in Heaven
- How does counting down the minutes of Eddies
life affect you as a reader? Do you enjoy this
technique? Why or why not? - She was like a wound beneath an old bandage. And
he had grown used to the bandage. What does
this mean? Explain. - Draw Marguerite.
7The Five People You Meet in Heaven Entry 01
- No story sits by itself. Sometimes stories meet
at corners and sometimes they cover one another
completely, like stones beneath a river. What
does this mean? Explain. - Think of a time this was true in your life. Tell
me about it. Explain.
8The Five People You Meet in Heaven Entry 02
- Why is the key significant to the story? How
does it tie in? - Draw the Freddy Free Fall ride car with the
trapped people.
9The Five People You Meet in Heaven Entry 03
- Would you risk your life to save a child (or
anyone) you dont know? - Predict what you think will happen. Will Eddie
save the girl? Explain your prediction. - Draw the scene.
10The Five People You Meet in Heaven Entry 04
- What is the authors vision of the journey to
heaven? - Does this fit with your image or beliefs of what
happens to you when you die? How is the vision
similar or different?
11The Five People You Meet in Heaven Entry 05
- What are Eddies first sensations of being in
heaven? - Ruby Pier is an amusement park, not a modern day
theme park. What are the differences between
Ruby Pier and todays theme parks? - Draw the scene.
12The Five People You Meet in Heaven Entry 06
- What is the significance of Eddie finding himself
in the amusement park again after he dies? - What is your reaction when Eddie realizes hes
spent his entire life trying to get away from
Ruby Pier only to be back there immediately after
death? Do you think this is important? Why?
13The Five People You Meet in Heaven Entry 07
- Share your reactions and thoughts about the Blue
Mans story, his relationship to his father, and
his taking silver nitrate. What, if anything,
does this have to do with Eddie? - This is not your heaven, its mine. Why does
the Blue Man say this? What does it mean? OVER
14The Five People You Meet in Heaven Entry 07 cont.
- 3. How does the Blue Man die? What affect does
it have on you when you look at the same story
from two different points of view? How aware are
we of others experiences of events that happen
simultaneously to us and to them? Why?
15The Five People You Meet in Heaven Entry 08
- What is the first lesson that Eddie learns in
heaven? - There are no random acts.They are all connected.
That you can no more separate one life from
another than you can separate a breeze from the
wind. EXPLAIN - What is the author (Albom) telling us about life
and death?
16The Five People You Meet in Heaven Entry 09
- Young men go to war. Sometimes because they
have to, sometimes because they want to. Always.
They feel they are supposed to. Do you agree
with Alboms reasons for boys going to war? Why
or why not? - Draw the captain and Eddie in the tree.
17The Five People You Meet in Heaven Entry 10
- How does the shooting of Eddies buddy change
him? - What did Eddie learn during the war?
- War could bond men like a magnet, but like a
magnet it could repel them too. Explain. - 4. How do the actions of the soldiers make you
feel? Do you think they were justified? - 5. Draw the camp where Eddie was held captive.
18The Five People You Meet in Heaven Entry 11
- In the middle of a big war, you go looking for a
small idea to believe in. Explain. - Do you think everyone has a time to die as Albom
suggests? - What reactions do you have when you discover that
Eddie was shot by his own captain? - Do you think Eddie changed as a result of being
in the war?
19The Five People You Meet in Heaven Entry 12
- Why did the captain shoot Eddie?
- I took your leg to save your life. Explain.
- Why does the captain tell Eddie that sacrifice is
not really a loss but a gain? - What is the second lesson?
20The Five People You Meet in Heaven Entry 13
- Why would heaven make you relive your own
decay? Explain. - Why do you think the people described in the
diner are there? Who are they? Are they all
stones in Eddies life? - What do you think the significance of Eddies dad
being at the diner might be?
21The Five People You Meet in Heaven Entry 14
- All parents damage their children. It cannot be
helped. Is this true? How does this idea make
you feel? - How does Eddies father damage him?
22The Five People You Meet in Heaven Entry 15
- You have peace when you make it with yourself.
Explain. - Do you agree or disagree with this statement?
Why?
23The Five People You Meet in Heaven Entry 16
- Things that happen before you are born still
affect you. And people who come before your time
affect you as well. Explain. - How does this relate to Eddies life. Who are
some people that have come before you that have
affected your life?
24The Five People You Meet in Heaven Entry 17
- Why does Eddie cover for his father at the pier
when he is ill? How do Eddies fathers choices
and decisions actually shape Eddies life? - Would you have saved Mickey?
- Do people die because of loyalty? When? Why?
25The Five People You Meet in Heaven Entry 18
- We think that hating is a weapon that attacks
the person who harmed us. But Hatred is a curved
blade. And the harm we do we do to ourselves.
How? - Why is this important for Eddie to understand?
Is it important for us to understand? Why?
26The Five People You Meet in Heaven Entry 19
- What was Eddies third lesson?
- Why is Marguerite Eddies fourth person? What do
you think she will teach? - All the others lived in their heavens. Why do
you think Marguerites heaven is weddings?
27The Five People You Meet in Heaven Entry 20
- How does Marguerites wish to only be at weddings
relate to her own life, and to her relationship
and life with Eddie? - Draw the two together.
- Is this time Eddie is with Marguerite closer to
what you think heaven would or should be like?
Explain.
28The Five People You Meet in Heaven Entry 21
- Lost love is still love. It takes a different
form. Life has an end. Love doesnt. - Why does she say this to Eddie?
- Do you think he gets it?
- Do you agree or disagree with her? Why?
29The Five People You Meet in Heaven Entry 22
- What is the significance of each item Dominguez
discovers in Eddies drawer? - The author divulges important information about
Eddies life by detailing 15 of his birthdays. \ - How does this device illuminate Eddies
character? - Do you like Eddie? Why or why not?
30The Five People You Meet in Heaven Entry 23
- Why does Eddies come upon the children in the
river? - What does Tala mean when she says you make good
for me? Is Eddies life penance and why? - What is the significance of Tala pulling Eddie to
safety after he dies? - Why is it Tala that pulls Eddie to heaven and not
one of the other four? - What would you say to Eddie when he laments that
he accomplished nothing with his life? What did
he accomplish?
31The Five People You Meet in Heaven Entry 24
- Write the five lessons Eddie learns.
- Which five people might you meet in heaven?
- What lessons might be important to your life?
- What did you enjoy, not enjoy?