LOVE, LIKE RAIN, can nourish from above, drenching couples with a soaking joy. But sometimes, under the angry heat of life, love dries on the
surface and must nourish from below, tending to its roots, keeping itself alive. 164
The feeling of loosing the one that he loves makes him fails to see that he still has
much love from people around him. He fails to see that Marguerite leaves him bunches of love when she leaves him. But Marguerite tells him that life has to end, but love
does not 173. Because when all things disappear, love endures. 1 Corinthian 13: 13
4.2.5 The Purpose of Life
God creates us with purposes. He does not create us for any purpose. Jeremiah 29:11 says that God has prepared a future filled with hope, a future of success not of
suffering for us as the creation. In this verse, Jeremiah tells us that there will be always a purpose behind a creation of human. In the novel, Tala says the same thing.
“Supposed too be there,” Tala said. “Where? At Ruby Pier?”
She nodded “Fixing rides? That was my existance?” He blew a deep breath. “Why?”
She tilted her head, as if it were obvious. “Children,” she said, “You keep them safe. You make good for me.”
She wiggled the dog against his shirt. “Is where you were supposed to be,” she said, and then she touched his shirt
patch with a small laugh and added two words, “Eddie Main-ten-ance.” 191 It is described in the novel that Tala, the little girl that appears as the fifth
person Eddie meets in heaven brought this lesson. She tells Eddie that Ruby Pier, the place where Eddie work, is the right place for him. The reason why Eddie works there
is to keep the children safe. That is the purpose of his life and that is also the last thing he does before he dies. He keeps the little girl safe from the falling of the cart, one of
the games in the pier. PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI
Every life has its own purpose for it has been well prepared by God. Jeremiah 29: 11 says that God has prepared a future filled with hope, a future of success not of
suffering for us as the creation. God makes Life is so meaningful. Eddie realizes that his life is not only a waste. His life is meaningful for the children in the pier. His life is
meaningful to his country, though he has to pay a leg for it. His life is meaningful to his family, since he is the person who resigns from his previous job and returnes to the
pier in order to take care of his mother and take his father’s previous job. His life is meaingful to his wife, for his deep love though they do not have a child 193.
“Push her legs. No pull. You push. Big thing fall. You keep her safe.” Eddie shut his eyes on denial. “But I felt her hands,” he said. “It’s the only
thing I remember. I couldn’t have pushed her. I felt her hands.” Tala smiled and scooped up the river water, then placed her small wet fingers
in Eddie’s adult grip. He knew right away they had been there before. “Not her hands,” she said. “My hands. I bring you to heaven. Keep you safe.”
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God makes everything beautiful on its time, and Eddie finds it on the right time. Each life goes on its way, no one knows it but God, since He is the creator of all
Genesis 1:27. PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI
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CHAPTER V CONCLUSION AND SUGGESTIONS
This final chapter consists of two parts. The first part is the conclusion of the study. I draw the conclusion based on the analysis in chapter two. The suggestion to
future researches and of the implementation of using The Five People You Meet in Heaven to teach speaking and reading become the last part of this chapter.
5.1 Conclusions
Based on the analysis of chapter IV. There are some conclusions to draw. The first are the portrayals of the characters in the novel and the second are the biblical
values conveyed by the five people that Eddie meets in heaven. There are five characters Eddie meets in heaven. First is the Blueman. He is
portrayed as a sideshow worker in Ruby Pier that has blue skin as his distinctive features. The second is the Captain. He is portrayed as the the oldest man in Eddie’s
troop, a lifetime military man with a lanky swagger and a prominent chin that gives him a resemblance of a movie actor of the day. Although he is high tempered and has a
habit of yelling inches from people’s face, but most of the soldier like him well enough.
The third is Ruby. She is portrayed as an old woman with a gaunt face and sagging cheeks, rose coloured lipstick, and tightly pulled-back white hair, thin enough
in parts to reveal the pink scalp beneath it. She wore wire-rimmed spectacles over narrow blue eyes.
