Changing your Path

“The five people you meet in heaven”
By: Mitch Albom
When I first read the title of the book I thought that it might have been more of a spiritual/ religious book. With furthering my reading of the book, it was about a man who died, and went to heaven. Once he gets to heaven there are five people that he meets along the way before he can get to his “sanctuary” in heaven. These five people that he meets where people who played some role in his life time.
Eddie; who is the main character, teaches you the value of life and to also accept when God is ready to take you. But while you spend your time here on earth to cherish the people who are around you, and never be too quick to judge but be quick to apologize and forgive.
The setting takes place in heaven, but while Eddie meets his five people in heaven each scene is different and it allows you to imagine how each person felt and why their heaven s’ are different from the next person. Also the scenes gives you a view as to where he was at the time that he met the person, but also why that scene fits as that persons “heaven”. But mainly why it showed him the reason as to how and why they met. The setting is very important to have throughout the book because you are cable of understanding why he went through the things he did in life.
I commend the author on his writing of the book; Mitch Albom does a great job in writing the details in the book, but most important learning the meaning of the book. The readability I thought was at good level for teens to read. Most important it was readable.