The After Life

     The book I am reading is still, "The Five People You Meet in Heaven." Eddie is now dead. He is floating in the sky, watching the colors change from blue, to pink, to orange, and so on. Moments later he shows up in Ruby Pier, the place he used to work in. When he finds out he is capable of walking without struggling, he starts to run. He runs all the way to town where he meets a man who claims to be a childhood friend. This man told Eddie he will encounter 5 other people that have been in his life.
     I thought chapter two was a little slow. It's a very descriptive excerpt. Explaining how Eddie feels, how he looks, what he sees. But, it would have been more entertaining to read if the author went straight to the part where Eddie met his, "childhood friend."
     I didn't really pay attention to organization patterns. I did notice Eddie was comparing how it felt dead, verses how he felt alive. For example, alive, he had stiff limbs. But dead, he was incredibly flexible.

Book Summary

     The beginning of the chapter starts with Eddie, the main character, dying. The author writes about what Eddie did his last thirty minutes on earth. Illustrating his job as maintenance at a theme park called Ruby Pier, how his life was with his deceased wife, Marguerite, and lastly, explaining the cause of his death.  A cart in one of the roller coasters was almost about to fall into the ground, and the people in it were latched on to keep from falling. When Eddie sent one of his workers up there, Dominguez, to rescue the passengers and take the cart he noticed the cart’s cable was unraveling. Eddie called out to him, attempting to inform him, but it was too late the cart was descending into the concrete floor, seconds to falling on top of a blonde-headed little girl. Eddie noticed what was occurring and pushed the little girl out of the way to save her, but was crushed in the process.
     I thought the way the author started the story by giving away the ending was very odd. Most authors usually don't do that. I'm not really into the story yet. Then again, I am only on page 30 so throughout the book I'll probably have a different perspective on it. The story is kind of hard for me to read because it's in Spanish, and I can't read fluently in Spanish so I don't normally notice small details that the author is pointing out. But, by reading the story I can normally figure out what a word/sentence means just by the context.
     Lastly, if I were to use a specific style of notes I would use lists. I know making a list for the book Isn't a very efficient way of taking notes but I find it simple, and resourceful. Each bullet would be in chronological order, and it would be easy to pull out information.