Group 3 Discussion Director : The Fourth Lesson

Questions:

1.     How the chapter starts?

2.     Where Eddie finds himself and what he noticed?

3.     What happened before he noticed Marguerite and what they discussed?

4.     In which Eddie’s birthday this chapter brings us to?

5.     Marguerite explains to Eddie something about love, what is it?

6.     How the Chapter ends ?

Group 2 Discussion Question （the third lesson）

Connector

It's not easy for us to forgive others.  Eddie's father  chose to forgive his friend Mickey. He jumped into the cold water to saved the guy who he wanted to kill before. He forgiven him, even he made a big mistake. I think Eddie's father is right. Everyone can make  mistakes in life. Sometimes, those mistakes hurt us seriously. We feel so anger with them, but things are not always what they seem. Like Mickey, he was coarse, but he was not evil. In our life, there are many problems like this. We should be tolerant.

Group 3 Discussion Questions. (The Third Lesson)

1. What happen when Eddie’s mother meet with Mickey?

2. When Mickey grab Eddie’s mother, what is the feeling of Eddie?

3. At the end, Eddie’s father forgives Mickey, Why?

4. If you meet some bad things that happen on you and you know who make it, will you forgive this person who makes some bad things on you?  Why or why not?

5. When Eddie knows everything about his father, does Eddie forgive his father? Why or Why not?

Discussion Literature.. Group 1, The Third Lesson

1- who is the person who betrayed Eddie's father?
2- What this person did for Eddie's family in the past?
3- how was Eddie's feeling toward this person?
4- What is the old women's thought of Eddie's father death?
5-What the old women asked Eddie to do after she told the story? Or What is the third lesson Eddie was learnt?

Discussion Literature.. Group 1, The Third Person Eddie meets in Heaven

1- Where is the place in this part that Eddie was in?
2- who is the person that Eddie was like to copy?
3- when Eddie got back to his family, how was his situation?
4-what was Eddie reaction when his father yelled at him ?
5- who is the third person Eddie met? 

Group 3 Discussion Questions. (The Third Person)

1. When Eddie finds a place to eat dinner, what the place looks like? (Inside/Outside)

2. When Eddie sees his dad, what is the Eddie’s feeling?

3. On page 106, here is a sentence “All parents damage their children”. Do you agree? If not, what’s your opinion?

4. After you read about Eddie’s father, is he a good father? Why or why not?

5. At the end, Eddie forgave his father? Why or why not?

Group 2 Discussion Questions. (The third person)

1 Before Eddie met the third person, why the author wrote a lot of words about the boxcar dinning room and about his father？

2 What is Eddie’s feeling about his father?

3 Why the boxcar dinning room is the Ruby’s heaven?

4 Why the Ruby hoped the Ruby Pier did not be built?

5 When Eddie’s father was at hospital, why Eddie showed his dirty fingernails to his father?

Group 3 discussion questions. (The second lesson)

1. What does captain teach Eddie about heaven?

2. Does Eddie think his captain is old?

3. Does Eddie smoke anymore?

4. Why the captain choose that place for their meeting?

5. What does Willie wear?

Personal Response to a Question

Paragraph C presents the idea of male flight and states, “The women pour in …and the men drain out.”What does this mean? Why might this be happening? Do you think gender inequality will be reversed, or will it find a balance?

1-Pour in:

According to the article this word means that women continue to get these jobs that men loss of interest in them.

Drain out:

Means that men are leaving or losing interest in some jobs, which makes women pour in them.

2- I do not know for sure why men are leaving some kind of jobs. However, it might be the reason behind that is some jobs are boring for them or the benefits of these jobs are not up to desire, which makes them looking for better opportunities that market can offer. In some case, some men as known like to take a risk so they may quit to start their own business. That is not easy to find the reason behind the drain-out but also I think women have a clear role in the way they present themselves as competitors in job market.   

3-I think gender inequity will some day find a balance especially nowadays women are educated and aware of their contributions in the community and society as well.  

Group 1 , Discussion-Literature, The Second Lesson

1-Why was the Captain waiting for Eddie?

- Because he was part of Eddie life, part of why he lived, and part of the story he needed to know as the blue man.

2-what was the Captain's opinion about sacrifices ?

- As he said " when you sacrifice something precious, you are not losing it. You are just passing it on to someone else."

3-what was the promise that the Captain gave to Eddie?

- He would not leave him behind.

4- could Eddie see the Captain's heaven as it appears to the Captain himself?

- No , he can't.

5- Did the Captain answer Eddie's question that was about the girl he scarified his life to save?

- No, he did not.  

Group 2 Discussion Director--The Second Lesson

 



















Questions:

1."Dying? Not the end of everything. We think it is. But what happens on earth is only the beginning". What was going through your mind when you read this sentence?

2.What do you think about the war?

3.Do you want to go back to someday before in your life?

4.Why the Captain shot Eddie's leg?

5.What do you think about sacrifice?

Group 2 Discussion Question-The Second Person Eddie Meets in Heaven

1. How is the Eddie's feeling when the sky was changing again?
2. Where did Eddie practice the shooting?
3. What Mickey told about the war to Eddie?
4. Who is the second person Eddie meet in heaven?
5. Why the captain shoot Eddie's leg?

Group3Discussion Director --The Second Person Eddie Meets in Heaven

1-who will meet Eddie next?

2-From what Eddie tried to escape?

3-Where was Eddie practice shooting?
4-Did Eddie have goal brfore the war?

5-Give summary about what Eddie faced during the war?

Group1 Discussion Director --The Second Person Eddie Meets in Heaven

The Second Person Eddie Meets in Heaven

1.What had Eddie found after he picked up the dog tags?
2.Where and how Eddie to practice shooting?
3.What's the meaning of the words that Mickey told him?
4.What did soldiers do to mark the graves of their dead?
5.How many things that Eddie learned during the war? Can you give some example?(more than4 things that you think very interesting)

Discussion Question（Group2-Yinghui Lu）

Discussion Director
1. what caused the accident that resulted Eddie's died?
The young man named Nicky. He had just begun driving and was still not comfortable carrying a key chain. He lost his key, and the key getting stuck in Cart No. 2, and it scraping across a locked pulley.
2. what happened about Eddie's body after he died?
He felt wonderful, his back did not hurt and his leg did not throb. But he couldn't speak at beginning.
3. Who is the first people that Eddie meets in heaven? How did he die?
The first people that Eddie meet in heaven is Joseph Corvelzchik. Medical examiner claimed that the cause of death is heart attack.
4. According to the Joseph Corvelzchik ( the Blue Man), what's the meaning of the heaven for Eddie?
There are five people that Eddie will meet in heaven. Each of them was in his life for a reason. He may not have known the reason at the time but the reasons will help Eddie understanding his life.

Discussion Questions-- Part 2 (Group 2)

What initially grabs your attention in The Five People You Meet in Heaven? What holds it?



    When I got the book "The Five People You Meet in Heaven", I started thinking about what kind of five people the author will tell us in the book. We have met thousands of thousands people in our life, some of them are our friends, and some of them are just strangers. People's memory include all of these people who we once met,  but when people are old, they just can remember a few of them. How about after people die? Who will be remembered? Why? I believe heaven is exist though I don't know where it is. People who are kind will met their parents and friends in heaven; people who are bad will lose everything and have guilty feeling in heaven. This is my imagination about heaven. The book will talk about five people you meet in heaven, does it mean we can just meet only five people in heaven after we die? And I am very curious what kind of  five people we will meet in heaven.