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Since the novel started readers notice that Eddie carries a lot of anger and regret about his life with him. Unfortunately his life wasn't so easy, he realizes that even though he was a good worker and man, he never did anything for himself. He spend time fixing the rides and making sure everything was on good condition, sometimes he forgot about his life doing stuff that sometimes he didn't needed to. He knew that he didn't lived his life the way he wanted. An example to this are his birthdays. Somehow every single day of his birthday something bad happened; however, Margarete always tried to make this a special that day for him, she never forgot about Eddie's birthday. This was one of the things that Eddie missed the most after she died, he knew that he could had expended more time with his wife if he wanted to.
I really recommend this book to anyone, not only because its a great novel, but because it holds anyones attention and makes you want to read more. I usually have hard times reading books that I don't like, but this one made me keep reading. Mitch Albom describes every single detail and in my opinion I think he did a great job on writing this book.
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Almost at the end of this book Eddie meets Tala, a 5 year old African looking pretty girl, at first he wonders why she is his fifth person if he didn't even knew her. She kept telling him that he burned her and that she was on fired. He didn't really understood what she was trying to tell him because she change from English to African language. While conversing she tells him that when he was in war, and he decided to burn down this place before leaving the war ground not knowing that she was inside it and he burned her to death. He was in shock, when he looked down the back to her she look the same way she did when death ( all burned, no hair, with only one eye..). She tells Eddie about this girl he tried to save before dying; Amy, she says that he did save her and thanks to him she is alive. Eddie keeps asking Tala to forgive him, she then hands this special rock and asks Eddie to rub her body with it, Eddie started rubbing her hands and he saw how every single scarf and burned marks were looking if nothing had happened to her, then he continued with her face, finishing with her head. This way Tala forgave him.
This chapter is significant because Eddie has nothing to worry about anymore, all his questions and problems were solved. He had peace for once.
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In this chapter after Eddie enters different doors that take him to different wedding receptions, the last door he opens seems to look exactly the same has his wedding with Margarete on earth. He then sees Margarete and she asks him to dance with her, while dancing he couldn't stop staring at her eyes, she looked the same has she did on their wedding day. Eddie couldn't explain what he was feeling, he was surprised and happy, but at the same time worried, because he was afraid that since she was his fourth person, wouldn't see her again after her leaving. She tells Eddie that her point is to tell him how much she loved and loves him, and how much he love her too.
While conversation readers get to know; for the first time, why Eddie never had kids with his wife. Margarete explains how she was pregnant, but one day while Eddie was at this place ( like a bar) playing cards with his friends and drinking beer. She was worried about him and late at midnight while she drove to get Eddie out of the place, a couple 17 year old teens threw a bottle of beer out their window hitting Margarete's window shield and causing her to crash and lose her baby. Since that time her and Eddie thought that they were too old to have kids, and they never did because of this reason.
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Eddie meets his third person in heaven, "Ruby" he doesn't recognized until she tells him that her name was the name of the park where he used to work on, and that her husband was who founded this amusement park.
Readers see a lot of regret and anger in Eddie about his life, probably this was the cause from his father beating him when he was drunk, or ignoring him since he was little.
Ruby's purpose is to let Eddie know that all parents damage their children in some way, that there are not perfect parents; they don't exist. Something significant about this chapter is that Ruby shows Eddie a part of his parent lives on earth that he didn't know that happened before he was born; that still affected him, and which started his dad's alcohol problems.
Mickey Shea who is one of Eddie's dad best friends was drunk because of him losing his job and family problems that he had. While Eddie's mom was getting change in her room, she takes off her blouse and at this moment Mickey hugs her and she starts yelling. Eddie's dad comes in to the room and starts beating up Mickey. He thought that he was trying to take advantage of his wife, but days later he discovers that he was drunk crying because of losing his job. At this time Eddie's dad starts drinking much and becomes an alcoholic. Ruby tells Eddie that this mistake that Mickey made was the reason of his dad drinking problem.
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Eddie awoke in a teacup, this old amusement park ride. His knee or back didn't hurt anymore, he realized that he was alone on Ruby Pier and everything seem brand new to him. Later while he observed the scenery a Blue man appeared in front of him. The Blue man explains to him that there are five people he'll meet in heaven and that each one of them was in his life for a reason. He describes it as a gift that god gives you; to understand your purpose in life. The Blue man used to work at the same amusement park Eddie worked on. He worked entertaining people on a show called " The Curious Citizens." This was because he got fired from the factory he worked on because of his skin color and other problems like scaring coworkers. " This happened to me after taking silver nitrate mixed with water; I though that this could cure my nerves, but later I found out that silver nitrate was considered poison and my skin started to began to turn gray, and then blue."
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The End
The story begins with the end. Its about an old man named Eddie. He is the maintenance worker at Ruby Pier, an amusement park by a great ocean. This park has all kinds of attractions and included a new one called Freddy's Free Fall; Where later Eddie would be killed by accident.
Eddie is a squat, white haired old man, with a short neck, a barrel chest, thick forearms, and a faded army tattoo on his right shoulder. He used 
a cane to get around because of his left knee being wounded in war was ruined by arthritis.
The story opens with Eddie's 83rd birthday. Acting like he doesn't really care about it, he spends all his time working at the park making sure the rides were in good condition. He was a friendly person and traded kids like if they were his own. He had a special feeling for this little girl named Amy? Annie? he didn't remember. The hours went by and Eddie was acting normally, walking around the park like usual; not knowing that this was the last day of his life on earth. While walking Eddie found one of his closest friends, Dominguez. After a little conversation Eddie reaches into his left pocket and takes out two twenties and gives them to Dominguez, asking him to buy his wife something special. This was one of the last nice things Eddie did before dying.
The same day in the afternoon Eddie heard a woman yelling with her eyes to the skies. He immediately saw the top of Free Fall; the new tower attraction. One of the carts was tilted to an angle as if trying to drop its cargo. While trying to save the four passengers in that ride, Eddie gets killed by one of the carts falling on him, "GET BACK!" were the last words he said to the crowd. Eddie felt two small hands in his own before dying; he did not know whose they were.
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