This week I finally finished the book. I read from pages 146 to 196 all in one sitting because I just couldn't put it down! The chapter I started on was titled, The Fourth Person Eddie Meets in Heaven, and it was about his desist wife Marguerite. Marguerite was/is a very significant figure in Eddie's life, she was his wife until she suddenly died of a heart attack at around age 60 or so. Eddie then spent the rest of his life alone, which was very difficult for him, especially because he loved Marguerite so much. For him to see her again for the first time in many years was a very magical moment in the book. Albom did a great job of allowing the reader to feel how Eddie felt when he saw her, embraced her, and talked to her. She taught him many things while he was visiting with her in heaven but then she had to leave, she was not Eddie's last stop and it was time for him to move on. The fifth person Eddie met in heaven was a five-year-old Asian girl. This baffled him because he had never seen this girl before, or so he thought. It turns out this young girl was the person he thought he saw in a house that he bombed while he was in the war. Everyone else he was with convinced him that no one was there and he argued but eventually listened, this girl was actually there. This really hit home with Eddie and I understand this feeling on a much smaller scale. This relates to my life because I have thought or believed things and then let others get in the way of what I truly believe and it always ends up turning out for the bad. I feel the message of this chapter is, listen to your heart. Over all I really enjoyed this book and am looking forward to reading "Tuesday's With Morrie" very soon.
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