Summary:The story begins with a man named Eddie who works at an amusement park at the Ruby Pier. It is his 83rd birthday and it is also the day he dies. He works there as the maintenance man who fixes all the rides. Eddie has a multiple flashback that day which take him back to times when he was a kid and tells about his brother,when he meet his true love Marguerite, and when he was in the army and how he was injured. Towards the end of the chapter it tells how Eddie dies, the ride “Freddy’s Free Fall”. There is a cart hanging by a couple strands of wire. Eddie notices it is going to fall so he has the passengers exit the cart . Soon after they exit the cart begins to fall because the wires break, he notices a little girl standing where the cart will fall, who in the beginning of the book he makes a pipe clear bunny for, he jumps for her to attempt to save her. That is the last thing he remembers before he dies.
Today is Eddie’s Birthday: On the this part of Chapter one it tell about Eddie’s birthday and how his father was sitting with the other fathers in the waiting room smoking a cigarette and the nurse calls his name and he finally sees his son and is proud.
Conflict (type & explanation):Man vs. Nature
The conflict type for this chapter is character vs. nature because Eddie dies because the cart fell on him.
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this chapter it tells about what happens after Eddie died, after he jumped for the little girl he didn’t know what happened after that. He saw different colors like orange, turquoise, and lime. Then he started to remember what happened with the cart and the little girl and he wondered if he saved her. He started to see more colors and then he noticed he didn’t feel any pain and he felt calm. He started to see water, a yellow sea, then it turned to sapphire. He began to fall, he saw sand and water, but he still wonder where his pain was. Today’s Eddie’s Birthday: It was Eddie’s 5th birthday, he was at the Ruby Pier at his birthday party, he was playing with his gift a red cowboy hat and a toy pistol. His uncle Mickey picked him up and told him it was time for his birthday bumps, he picked him up and spun him 5 times upside down. Eddie got scared and ran to his mother's arms. Conflict (type & explanation): Man vs. self The conflict for this chapter is man vs. self because Eddie was mad at himself because he didn’t get a chance to fix the choices he made and do everything he wanted to do. Summary:Eddie woke up in a teacup amusement park ride’ he reached for his cane but realized it wasn’t there.
He realized there was no pain when he tried to stand up. He was on the Ruby pier from 75 years ago. He saw the ferris wheel and he saw streets of where he lived when he was a kid. He started walking and then he saw a man with a maintenance uniform, then he started running like before the war, then he stopped he heard a voice telling about the Freakshow, people who don’t “belong”. He went in and saw a fat lady, conjoined twins, and women with beards.He walked farther and saw a man who was blue and said I’ve been waiting for
you. Conflict (type & explanation): Man vs. Nature This chapter is man vs. nature because Eddie didn’t know where he was and was very confused due to the fact he was in a strange place. Summary: Eddie remembers the blue man a little from his childhood, but the blue man know a lot about him. He says Eddie feels so young again because he met the blue man when he was a child. He tells Eddie he is in heaven and that he is on his journey to his heaven.He says on his way he will meet five people that God chose for him that were connected to his life and that will help make sense of his life.Then Eddie asks the blue man how he died, he said “you killed me” Today is Eddie’s Birthday: It is Eddie’s 7th birthday and him and his brother are at the Ruby Pier, he received a baseball and is throwing the ball and it hits a tent of the Freakshow. They see an overweight woman and the blue man, he comes out to ask about the ball but the got the ball and are gone by the time he comes out After the flashback the blue man tells Eddie about his life and how Eddie was the cause of his death because Eddie ran out to get a ball from the road and was almost hit by the blue man and that left the blue man so shaken that it caused him to get in a accident soon after. Today is Eddie’s Birthday: Eddie is now 8 years old and he received an Erector set for his birthday but he can’t because he has to attend the funeral of the blue man. Conflict (type & explanation): Man vs. Self This chapter is man vs. self because Eddie is mad at himself for being stupid as a child. Summary: Eddie feels very guilty for what he did as a child and feels he should be punished, but the blue man tells him that in heaven there is no guilt or punishment but that in heaven everyone he meets is supposed to teach a lesson. The blue man shows Eddie his funeral, Eddie sees himself and then starts to feel bad because he really didn’t want to be the funeral. He says to the blue man that he and the blue man barely knew each other and the blue man says “Strangers are just family you haven’t met”. The blue man hugs Eddie and then Eddie feels everything the blue man felt in his life. Today is Eddie’s Birthday: It’s Eddie’s 17th birthday and his mother is cooking and his brother announces that Eddie had found the girl of his dreams. Eddie gets mad at his brother and this causes them to fight, their father has to break them up. They listen to the radio and then there mother turns it to music and they all start to dance. Conflict (type & explanation):Man vs. Self This chapter is man vs. self because Eddie is mad at himself for causing the death of an innocent death, even though he was only a child. Summary: Conflict (type & explanation):Man vs. Man The conflict of this chapter is man vs. man because most of this chapter is flashback to when Eddie was in the war and was in combat.
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The story starts with Eddie, an old man (Eighty years old to be exact) who works at Ruby Pier, a carnival-like amusement park. Eddie has worked there for most all of his life (except when he served in the war), and, even though today is his birthday, he still does everything the same way he would do things any other day. Today would be different though. A thrill ride called Freddy's Free Fall had been stuck with all its passengers at the top of the ride, and it was rather tilted towards the ground. Eddie raced over to tell the man running the ride to get the passengers off and then press the release button. The man did and when he pressed the release button, the cart where the passengers had been fell to the ground. In the midst of all this, Eddie saw a little girl right under the spot where the cart would fall, and, despite his bad leg, he ran over to save the little girl as the cart was falling. All he felt was her little hands and then, pain followed by the feeling of floating.
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Eddie about life. Each had a different lesson that Eddie needs to understand before he