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.
Story Mapper
ReplyDeleteWhere the action begins:
The action begins in the ballyhoo hall (in the Ruby Pier). Eddie saw the Blue Man and he felt a little afraid. (P32)
Where the key events happened:
The first key event happened near The Whipper in the Ruby Pier (an amusement park). Eddie didn't believe he was in heaven because he thought heaven was a wonderful place, but he was in the Ruby Pier, which a place he didn't like. (P33-34)
The second key event happened after the Blue Man leading Eddie through the park. The Blue Man told Eddie that Eddie killed him. (P34-36)
The third key event still happened in the Ruby Pier. The Blue Man told Eddie why his skin was blue and what he experienced. (P39-42)
The fourth key event happened in a town which Eddie lived in the late 1920s. A story about Eddie killed the Blue Man indirectly. (P42-44)
Where the events end:
The events end in the Ruby Pier. The Blue Man told the whole story to Eddie. (P44)
P35 illuminate: to enlighten
ReplyDeleteP37 squeeze: to force a way through narrow or crowded place
P40 ingest: to take, as food, into the body
P41 commodity: something of use, advantage, or value
P42 toss: to throw or send from one to another
P43 tragedy: the tragic element of drama, of literature, or life
P43 collide: to strike one another or one against the other with a forceful impact; come into violent contact
P43 collapse: to fall unconscious or as if unconscious or physically deleted
Summary for The Five People You Meet In Heaven, CH 3
ReplyDeleteEddie somehow awakes in amusement park. He is able to walk normally without any pain. But the colors and the attractions seem different! Then he realizes that he is at the Ruby Pier when he was a child over 75 years ago. He is so happy because of the fact that he doesn’t need his cane anymore. He notices a man when he passes by the sideshow, he remembers that man, with blue skin.
The Blue Man talks to Eddie and tells him that he knows him since he was a child. Eddie is trying to understand why Ruby Pier? And how haven can be a Ruby Pier? He spent most of his life wishing to stay away from Ruby Pier.
The Blue Man told Eddie that he will meet five people in heaven. These five people were in his life for a reason; this will clarify a lot about his life on earth. Eddie is trying to ask the question of what killed the Blue Man; the Blue Man answers that he killed him.
The next flashback is his seventh birthday. He and Joe, his brother, are playing with the new baseball. Eddie throws the ball away. They search around and they were scared from the freak, from the freak show, to catch them. Eddie and Joe were very scared, they grab the ball and run.
The chapter is about a conversation with the Blue Man. He tells Eddie his story about why he came to Ruby Pier and why his skin is blue. The Blue Man tells Eddie the story about how he died from Eddie's point of view and also the Blue Man's point of view.
One more thing, in Eddie’s eighth birthday, he attends a funeral; he has no idea about where he is or the purpose of the ceremony.
The first person Eddie meets in heaven is blue man. He ate silver nitrate which leads to his skin become blue. He came to Ruby Pier as a vaudevillian. In pier, he felt he is in heaven because he had a home and can walk along the beach without scaring people. In order to avoid hit Eddie, blue man died at heart attract. After i read the section, i felt everyone, who appear in our life, must have some relative with us, although we do not know the connection. The reason of blue man thought Ruby Pier was his heaven really strike me. In the conversation between Eddie and he, he said "In the early mornings, if I wore long shirts and draped my head in a towel, I could walk along this beach without scaring people. It may not sound like much, but for me, it was a freedom I had rarely known."
ReplyDeleteWhen I read this paragraph, a really sad story suddenly strike my mind. This story happened in China at 2004. A Chinese university student Jiajue Ma, he killed his four roommates. The reason of that is other people always laughed at him. After he was arrested, he said because he was very poor, the prison uniform was the best cloth he wore, and the time he lived in prison was the best happy time in his life because no one laugh at him and he can eat the same food with others. In the past, I always thought prison was the hell. I never considered for some person the prison is the best place he lived in. Blue man and Jiajue Ma had very similar life experience. When I read blue man's story, I recall Jiajue Ma's story.