the five people you meet in heaven

The section that we had to read from, pages 39 to 79, it was basically about how the blue man tried to explain to him that one story has two experiences and perspectives to it. He was was saying how Eddie was the cause of his death. He explained Eddies side of the story as his ball going in the middle of the road and how he almost got hit by the car. But Blue mans perspective is different due to the fact that he was the one driving the car that Eddie almost got hit by. He explained his perspective of what had happened by talking about how when he was driving he almost hit a kid and that had made him build up adrenaline to the point where he had fainted behind the wheel. That was when we his car was flipping over and he had slowly died. He was just explaining to him on how one story can have different perspectives. While Eddie was playing catch with his baseball, The blue man was going through a horrible incident. This is when Eddie had met the second person in heaven, which was his unit captain in the army. He was basically explaining everything he knew from the army and everything that he had learned from it. They was just talking about they had been captured in a gold mine and how Eddie used his juggling skills that he had learned in the pier to kill the four guards that were torturing them. He said that when he was juggling the rocks and throwing of them high in the air, it was amusing the guards. That was when they had moved in for their attack and they threw the rocks at them and smashed their ribs and their heads with the rocks and bayonet that one of the guards had with them.

In what we had read I didn't really think their was much transcendentalism. I feel one particular section had something to do with it and connected with it a little but that's about it. The part I was talking about was when the blue man was explaining the different perspectives that one story can have and how it one story can have an outcome that was different then the other persons outcome that was also part of the story. I feel that had something to do with transcendentalism because The blue man was trying to explain how you are able to look at one story in many different views. He was trying to explain how life and death just happens. That's why everybody gathers around when some one is born and when some one dies.

When the blue man says "But there is a balance to it all.One withers, another grows.Birth and death are apart of a whole.", I feel this is what I've been trying to get at. What I feel he means by this is that everything happens for a reason. there is going to be a time when its your turn to go, but at that same moment its that time when a new born baby is born. That's why I feel this relates to transcendentalism because looking at life and death in a deeper meaning like this makes it be looked at in a different perspective. It was Eddies fault that The blue man died, it was just his time to go, it's left up to god when that time is.