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The novel the Five People You Meet in Heaven tells a story about an old man who worked at Ruby Pier and was 83 years old. The novel begins stating that it is starting with and end, the end of Eddie's life. But in all reality, it's not only an end, its beginning too; the beginning of Eddie's "life" in Heaven. When Eddie gets to Heaven, he meets 5 people, who all teach him a lesson. Those five people were: The Blue Man, his old captain from war, Ruby, Marguerite, and then Tala.
The Blue Man is the first person that Eddie met in heaven. He recognized the Blue man from the pier. He was an attraction at the pier because his skin was a shade of blue. The blue man died because he was trying not to run Eddie over in his car. The car was wrecked and the Blue Man died of a heart attack. His lesson was that we are all connected in someway.
The second person Eddie met was his old captain from the war. The captain talks about Eddie getting shot in the leg and that his lesson is sacrifice,......

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