Introduction
Mitch Albom touched the soul of the readers with his work. It’s theme of afterlife was as old as the civilizations but narrative style subtly appeals the intellectual aspects of the contemporary readers and questions their sensibility towards their fellow beings. The writers of all generations observe the changes and challenges of their era, depicts them faithfully in their literature by addressing the issues that affects the individual & the society in totality. Mitch Albom exactly did the same in his book. Advanced technology made the life style more result oriented and mechanical in its approach dwindles their sensitiveness for others. He tried to stimulate the human values by a make believe in after life where all lives are
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Ironically, Eddie sacrificed his life to save a little girl andwhen he was a boy, he was saved by the Blue Man who sacrificed his life to him. Their conversation establishes an impression that one way or the other people influence each other’s life. Blue Man explained what isheaven,
“Each of us was in your life for a reason. You may not have known the reason at the time, and that is what heaven is for. For understanding your life on earth.”
Eddie understood that he was the cause of Blue Man’s death and believed that it was the reason for him to be in heaven but Blue Man taught him his first lessoneverything happens with a reason in the following lines; “There are no random acts. That we are all connected.You can no more separate one life from another than you can separate a breeze from the wind.”
Blue Man left him and after that he felt like an adult symbolically narrates his incident when he was a young man and he influenced Captain’s life who taught him his Second lesson in heaven. Captain was his commanding officer in the war and when he saw him in heaven he became apprehensive, did he kill the captain, too? In the war they burned the enemy camp. Eddie lost his leg when he was chasing a shadow and he got to know in heaven that it was the captain who shot his leg to save his life. Captain met his death heroically by sacrificing his life to save four