“Where do you think? the Blue Man asked. Heaven.NO EDDIE SHOOK his head violently. NO The Blue Man seemed amused. No?
It cant be heaven? he said. Why? Because this is where you grew up? Eddie mouthed the word Yes. Ah. The Blue Man nodded.
Well. People often belittle the place where they were born. But heaven can be found in the most unlikely corners. And heaven itself
has many steps. This, for me, is the second. And for you, the first. He led Eddie through the park, passing cigar shops and sausage stands
and the flat joints, where suckers lost their nickels and dimes. Heaven? Eddie thought. Ridiculous.” Albom, 2003: 34.
4.3.1.5 Funeral
This is the place where Eddie and Blue Man talks each other. Blue Man tells Eddie about a fairness of life and death. He says that a fairness doesn’t
govern life and death. When Eddie rolls his palm suddenly Eddie and Blue Man are standing in a cemetery. In this place Blue Man teaches Eddie about life. It can
be seen from the following quotation:
“The Blue Man held out his hand. Fairness, he said, does not govern life and death. If it did, no good person would ever die young.
He rolled his palm upward and suddenly they were standing in a cemetery behind a small group of mourners. A priest by the gravesite
was reading from a Bible. Eddie could not see faces, only the backs of hats and dresses and suit coats. My funeral, the Blue Man said.
Look at the mourners. Some did not even know me well, yet they came. Why? Did you ever wonder? Why people gather when others
die? Why people feel they should? It is because the human spirit knows, deep down, that all lives intersect.” Albom, 2003: 48.
4.3.1.6 Philipine
This is the place where Eddie has joined in the army. Eddie joins the war with Captain. He is Eddie’s commanding officer in war. They fight together in the
62 war. Captain explains to Eddie about the rules of the war. Eddie says if he is dead
then Captain is dead too. Eddie says to Captain “you are my second person” and Captain just smile. In this place Eddie learns about the war. The war that changes
the whole of his life. It shows in quotation below:
“THEY HAD SERVED together in the army. The Captain was Eddies commanding officer. They fought in the Philippines and they
parted in the Philippines and Eddie had never seen him again. He had heard hed died in combat. A wisp of cigarette smoke appeared. They
explained the rules to you, soldier? Eddie looked down. He saw the earth far below, yet he knew he could not fall. Im dead, he said.
You got that much right. And youre dead. Got that right, too. And youre . . . my second person? The Captain held up his
cigarette. He smiled as if to say, Can you believe you get to smoke up here? Then he took a long drag and blew out a small white cloud.
Betcha didnt expect me, huh?” Albom, 2003: 61-62.
4.3.1.7 Seahorse Grill
