The Five People You Meet in Heaven

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The Five People You Meet in Heaven

First Person – Today is Eddie’s [17th] Birthday

Pages 32 - 55

Vocabulary:

1.  carnage – a bloody sight

2.  commodity – a useful product

3.  flail – to swing wildly

4.  lamé – a shiny, metallic fabric

5.  silver nitrate – a chemical compound that was once used for medical purposes

6.  solace – comfort; relief

7.  tawny – tan

8.  turrets - towers

Questions:

1.  What reason does the Blue Man give Eddie for why he feels young again?

2.  What metaphor is used to describe the Blue Man’s skin?

3.  Why is Eddie disappointed by the fact that his heaven is Ruby Pier?

4.  What information does the Blue Man pass on to Eddie about his arrival itinerary? What is the overall objective?

5.  What changed Joseph Corvelzchik’s skin color?

6.  Why did the Blue Man decide to stay at Ruby Pier?

7.  How are Eddie and the Blue Man connected?

8.  Eddie’s eighth birthday is spent in a way he does not like. What is he forced to do?

9.  What lesson does Eddie learn, and how is that lesson connected with the Blue Man’s death?

10.  According to the Blue Man, why do people go to funerals?

11.  What two literary devices are used to describe how Eddie gains a complete understanding of the Blue Man when they embrace?

Literary Device #1: / Literary Device #2:
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12.  What reason does the Blue Man give Eddie for why he must leave?

13.  What makes Eddie say his death, like his life, is a waste?

14.  How does Eddie’s love of comic books characterize him? Does he lose this trait as he grows older? How do you know?

15.  In the scene of Eddie’s 17th birthday, why might Eddie be embarrassed when his family found out about the girl he danced with?

16.  How does Eddie’s mother try to get the brothers to reconcile? Is it successful?

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