text to text:
The First Phone Call from Heaven is very similar to another Mitch Albom book we previously read: The Five People You Meet in Heaven. Both novels are based on faith and heaven. Both teach the reader an important lesson on life and our religion. Both have a side theme of the military and both main characters live through loss and hardship. Therefore, these two novels are very similar.
Text to world:
Many people throughout the world have experienced, or claimed to have experienced a miracle, or some type of contact from heaven. What occurred in this book has occurred many times in the world.
Text to self:
Like the main characters of this book, we all have experienced loss in our lives. In this way, I can relate this book to myself and others.