"THE FIVE PEOPLE YOU MEET IN HEAVEN": POWER STRUGGLE IN FORMING FAMILY RELATIONS

الملخص

ABSTRACT

This study discusses the representation of power over others. The tools to control others, is to treat them like the capitalist treat their workers. This kind of notion is presented in the novel The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom. The power struggle better represented and defined by Marxism, therefore the representation in The Five People You Meet in Heaven is different from the relation between the classic capitalist and their workers. This study will take the Marxist representation to another level, and uses the family relation rather that the ruling class-working class ones in the novel, the father will be the ruling class who tries to use his power and authority over his wife and children whom considered as working class in this study.

Keywords: power, Mitch Albom, family relations, ruling class, working class, authority, neglect.