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                                                              Everything’s Connected

                                                                     By Alex Donze

 

            In both The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom  and  And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie there is a common theme about how everyone and everything is interconnected and always has a purpose. Eddie from The Five People You Meet In Heaven and the party group from And Then There Were None all have committed acts that have gotten them where they are. The Five People You Meet In Heaven connects Eddie with people and events in his life, while in And Then There Were None each member of the party group is faced with the horrible crimes they committed.

            Eddie in The Five People You Meet in Heaven did many acts throughout his life that affected others such as the Blue Man’s death. As stated in the text “You killed me,” Eddie finds that his accidentally throwing a ball too high resulted in the Blue Man’s heart failing. Eddie realizes later that in the prison camp if he had not seen the shadow he would not have been shot in the knee.  When the captain tells him “I took your leg,” Eddie realizes not only that he lost his leg, but that it also resulted in the captain being blown up. These examples show how everything and everyone is connected in The Five People You Meet in Heaven.

            The group in And Then There Were None did horrible actions that got them to the island including Marston killing a family in a drunk driving accident and Claythorn drowning a little boy for her boyfriend. Each guest or “Little Indian” was connected as murderers to the other guests by the terrible crime he or she committed and in the end “justice was served” by Wargrave. This terrible ending shows how the actions that one commits does affect others and will catch up with one in the end.

            These stories show how everything one does affects not only oneself but others. In both of the novels The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom and Agatha Christie’s And Then There Were None, the authors give the reader a great way explaining how and why everything and everyone comes together. Just remember everything’s connected.