Saturday, July 27, 2013

Connection: The Truth to Reality

          In the novel, The Five People You Meet in Heaven, The author quotes "That there are no random acts. That we are all connected. That you can no more separate one life from another than you can separate a breeze from the wind."I think that this is the main moral of the story because the idea of it is repeated in every chapter. 
         The first part of the quote, "That there are no random acts" means that everything that you do, say, or mess up, has an effect on someone else. This is proven in the italicized part of the chapter, The Second Lesson when Eddie runs out in the road to get his baseball and is just missed by the Ford Model A. The driver (the blue man) ended up having a heart attack. The blue man's life is taken and Eddie's life is saved. 
         The next part of the quote, "That we are all connected" means that every human is affected by other humans, or in other words, anything you do, you're affecting someone else, not just yourself. In The Blue Man's story of his life, when he soiled himself and his father got upset with him, he became stressed and was prescribed Silver Nitrate, which turned him blue. Thus, The Blue Man was affected by his father.
         The third part of the quote, "That you can no more separate one life from another than you can separate a breeze from the wind" says that we are affecting one another whether we know it or not. For instance, when Eddie chases his baseball across the street and the blue man had a heart attack, Eddie didn't know that he was affecting The Blue Man, but as a matter of fact, he affected the outcome of his life.

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