The Five People You Meet in Heaven

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The Five People You Meet in Heaven

1. From the title, what do you think the book will
   be about?
2. What initially grabs your attention in the book?

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The Five People You Meet in Heaven

1. Draw a picture of what Eddie looks like.
2. Eddie exists in a weary state of acceptance.
   What do you think this means? How did Eddie come
   to be in this state?

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The Five People You Meet in Heaven

1. How does counting down the minutes of Eddies
   life affect you as a reader? Do you enjoy this
   technique? Why or why not?
2. She was like a wound beneath an old bandage. And
   he had grown used to the bandage. What does
   this mean? Explain.
3. Draw Marguerite.

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The Five People You Meet in Heaven Entry 01

1. 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.
2. Think of a time this was true in your life. Tell
   me about it. Explain.

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The Five People You Meet in Heaven Entry 02

1. Why is the key significant to the story? How
   does it tie in?
2. Draw the Freddy Free Fall ride car with the
   trapped people.

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The Five People You Meet in Heaven Entry 03

1. Would you risk your life to save a child (or
   anyone) you dont know?
2. Predict what you think will happen. Will Eddie
   save the girl? Explain your prediction.
3. Draw the scene.

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The Five People You Meet in Heaven Entry 04

1. What is the authors vision of the journey to
   heaven?
2. Does this fit with your image or beliefs of what
   happens to you when you die? How is the vision
   similar or different?

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The Five People You Meet in Heaven Entry 05

1. What are Eddies first sensations of being in
   heaven?
2. Ruby Pier is an amusement park, not a modern day
   theme park. What are the differences between
   Ruby Pier and todays theme parks?
3. Draw the scene.

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The Five People You Meet in Heaven Entry 06

1. What is the significance of Eddie finding himself
   in the amusement park again after he dies?
2. 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?

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The Five People You Meet in Heaven Entry 07

1. 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?
2. This is not your heaven, its mine. Why does
   the Blue Man say this? What does it mean? OVER

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The 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?

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The Five People You Meet in Heaven Entry 08

1. What is the first lesson that Eddie learns in
   heaven?
2. 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
3. What is the author (Albom) telling us about life
   and death?

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The Five People You Meet in Heaven Entry 09

1. 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?
2. Draw the captain and Eddie in the tree.

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The 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.

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The Five People You Meet in Heaven Entry 11

1. In the middle of a big war, you go looking for a
   small idea to believe in. Explain.
2. Do you think everyone has a time to die as Albom
   suggests?
3. What reactions do you have when you discover that
   Eddie was shot by his own captain?
4. Do you think Eddie changed as a result of being
   in the war?

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The Five People You Meet in Heaven Entry 12

1. Why did the captain shoot Eddie?
2. I took your leg to save your life. Explain.
3. Why does the captain tell Eddie that sacrifice is
   not really a loss but a gain?
4. What is the second lesson?

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The Five People You Meet in Heaven Entry 13

1. Why would heaven make you relive your own
   decay? Explain.
2. Why do you think the people described in the
   diner are there? Who are they? Are they all
   stones in Eddies life?
3. What do you think the significance of Eddies dad
   being at the diner might be?

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The Five People You Meet in Heaven Entry 14

1. All parents damage their children. It cannot be
   helped. Is this true? How does this idea make
   you feel?
2. How does Eddies father damage him?

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The Five People You Meet in Heaven Entry 15

1. You have peace when you make it with yourself.
   Explain.
2. Do you agree or disagree with this statement?
   Why?

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The Five People You Meet in Heaven Entry 16

1. Things that happen before you are born still
   affect you. And people who come before your time
   affect you as well. Explain.
2. How does this relate to Eddies life. Who are
   some people that have come before you that have
   affected your life?

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The Five People You Meet in Heaven Entry 17

1. 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?
2. Would you have saved Mickey?
3. Do people die because of loyalty? When? Why?

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The Five People You Meet in Heaven Entry 18

1. 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?
2. Why is this important for Eddie to understand?
   Is it important for us to understand? Why?

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The Five People You Meet in Heaven Entry 19

1. What was Eddies third lesson?
2. Why is Marguerite Eddies fourth person? What do
   you think she will teach?
3. All the others lived in their heavens. Why do
   you think Marguerites heaven is weddings?

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The Five People You Meet in Heaven Entry 20

1. How does Marguerites wish to only be at weddings
   relate to her own life, and to her relationship
   and life with Eddie?
2. Draw the two together.
3. Is this time Eddie is with Marguerite closer to
   what you think heaven would or should be like?
   Explain.

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The Five People You Meet in Heaven Entry 21

1. Lost love is still love. It takes a different
   form. Life has an end. Love doesnt.
2. Why does she say this to Eddie?
3. Do you think he gets it?
4. Do you agree or disagree with her? Why?

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The Five People You Meet in Heaven Entry 22

1. What is the significance of each item Dominguez
   discovers in Eddies drawer?
2. The author divulges important information about
   Eddies life by detailing 15 of his birthdays. \
3. How does this device illuminate Eddies
   character?
4. Do you like Eddie? Why or why not?

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The Five People You Meet in Heaven Entry 23

1. Why does Eddies come upon the children in the
   river?
2. What does Tala mean when she says you make good
   for me? Is Eddies life penance and why?
3. What is the significance of Tala pulling Eddie to
   safety after he dies?
4. Why is it Tala that pulls Eddie to heaven and not
   one of the other four?
5. What would you say to Eddie when he laments that
   he accomplished nothing with his life? What did
   he accomplish?

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The Five People You Meet in Heaven Entry 24

1. Write the five lessons Eddie learns.
2. Which five people might you meet in heaven?
3. What lessons might be important to your life?
4. What did you enjoy, not enjoy?