The Domino Effect

    When an action of some sort occurs, it affects the people around it. Those people who are immediately affected often end up affecting others indirectly. When one pushes the first domino in a line, it lands on the next domino that continues to strike the next one until they have all fallen down. Even though the first domino never touches the last one, it could not have fallen without the first one moving.

   The main character in this novel, Eddie, acts as the last domino. The event of Nick’s key falling out of his pocket, during the roller coaster ride, set off a series of events. When the key slowly grinds away at the wire holding the ride in place, the result is the wire being cut. While Eddie found out what is wrong with the ride, it soon collapsed, causing his death. When he dies, it set off another new chain of events.

   The quote from the novel The Five People You Meet in Heaven reads, “That there are no random acts. That we are all connected. That you can no more separate one life from another than you can a breeze from the wind.” I believe that every action is important and that everyone and everything is affected by it one way or another. Such as during the Boston Bombing, when many of us were not actually there, we felt connected to the bombing, and became affected by it. Once someone was changed by it, it would change their life forever, and set off a new chain of events.