Summary

The numerical ordering of "Annie Makes a Mistake" is not in the source text, but the writer of this study guide has done so to easily differentiate between similarly titled sections.

The Fourth Person Annie Meets in Heaven:

The old man told Annie that he had died at the amusement park and she recognized him as the man from her wedding. He related his own experience in heaven, remembering asking his five people if he had saved the little girl. Annie saw his name patch and read "Eddie Maintenance," and when she held his hand, "she felt safer than she'd ever felt before" (162). The narrator relates that the phrase "my whole life flashed before my eyes" is actually a peak at the plane beyond life in heaven, where...