After seeing Elizabeth's comment about how 5 people you meet in heaven and its a wonderful life, I realized they are a lot alike, but also very different.
First, In both books it talks about how both main characters sort of look back at their lives from when they were very little to present day. But the difference is that in It's a Wonderful Life it goes exactly back to those days when they happened and they re-watch it. In 5 People You Meet in Heaven, he meets people who were in his life at some point that reminds him of his past, and then they just recall the story, not go back to the complete day. Also, in both books they are in like an alternate universe where only they and the people they are with can't be seen. They can see the people but the people can't see them back. But the difference in them is that in It's A Wonderful Life the mans not dead, he just goes into this stage where he's not there. In 5 People You Meet in Heaven, the main character dies form being squashed by a ride at an amusement park.
I haven't read the book It's a Wonderful Life or seen the movie, but I did see a play on it when I was in 5th grade.
Isabella, I have really wanted to read this book after I got paired up with Will to do our project, and we talked about it. Will kept telling me how it was such a great book, and after I got the plot summary down it seems as if this book is a really good read. However he did not mention Eddie getting smushed by a giant roller coaster, he left that little detail out....
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