Unexpected Connections

      In the novel, The Five People You Meet in Heaven, the main character, Eddie, meets five people who each teach Eddie a very important lesson. The first person Eddie meets is Joseph Corvelzchik, or the blue man. One of the things he told Eddie was, “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.” This means that everything happens for a reason even if you don’t know it. Something with a small impact on you can have a big impact on someone else.

     Eddie finds out that he accidentally kills the blue man during their time together. Eddie jumps in front of the blue man’s car to get his ball, but Eddie didn’t think he did any harm. The blue man had a heart attack from Eddie jumping in front of his car causing him to die. It could have been the other way around and Eddie could have been hit, but God chose for Eddie to live. If Eddie would have died, he couldn’t have had a chance to save the little girl from Ruby Pier. This shows the connection of life Eddie had with people.

    

     Anyone can be connected with someone throughout their lifetime without knowing it. Someone can be doing the right things, but can still have a negative effect on someone else. Eddie was doing the right thing by trying to save the girl at the pier, but ended up killing himself in the process. Eddie had many unexpected connections in his life, but there are many people in the world just like him.