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During this page Eddie has gotten out of the hospital from his leg being injured during the war. His father doesn’t like that he is injured and doesn’t have a job and he begins to yell at Eddie. Eddie finally decided to stand his ground and stand up for himself. Eddie had never stood up for himself towards his father. Normally Eddie lets his father do whatever to him, if it’s from yelling to hitting or punching but not this time. Eddies father went to hit him and Eddie moved out of the way. Eddies father didn’t like that at all and never talked to him again. This is very important because in the beginning of the book we learn that Eddie is not very close to his father and now we get the inside scoop of why Eddie is not close to him. We learned that Eddie had always been controlled by his father and somewhat abused. His father is the controlling parent while on the other side his mother is the caring and loving parent which is why Eddie has always loved his mother.

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This is important because it shows us Eddies true colors. That he was a caring man who always put other before himself. He was Conserned if he had saved the little girl. He was confused on why all the pain was gone and why he had nothing to worry about anymore. During this section of the book it shows us Eddie going back in time to when he was a little boy. He felt calm and has no worry or pain.

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This is an important part of the book because during this scene it shows us that Eddie feels more comfortable with his mother and not with his father or his father’s friend. Eddie is more comfortable with Women. During the scene Eddie is being hung upside down by his father’s friend and he does not like that.  He runs to his mother and feels instantly safe. This shows us that Eddie feels more comfortable with women than men. He is even scared of his own father

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This is important because it shows us how Eddie is connected to the blue faced man. Eddie is connected to him because he cause his death. Eddie was just a little boy running into a street after the ball his brother threw. The ball rolled infront of the blue faced man’s car while driving and made him swerve off the road and crash. He passed due to a heart attack from his nerves.

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During these 2 pages it tells use how the Blue man turned blue. The Blue man has always suffered from nerves so he decided to take poison to help. He would take extra without water if it wasn’t working. Overtime he began to turn blue. This is important because him being blue was a big part of his life and why he joined the freak show because that’s the only place he truly felt welcome and excepted. The blue man being a part of the freak shows connects to Eddie because thats where Eddie spent most of his days since he was a little boy.

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During this page Eddie is ready to run into the burping building because he thought he heard a noise, it reminded him of his little cousins at home and had no hesitation to run into that burning building to save who ever was in there. The Captain shot Eddie in the leg before running in to stop him. If Eddie were to run into that burning building he would have lost his life. The captain explains that he couldn’t let Eddie burn to death and that a leg wound could heal. This is important because Eddies leg problem was a very big part of his life, he never knew how it happened and just had to live with it. The captain saved Eddies life from burning In that fire that day and is why Eddie lived such a long life.

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During this page the Captain is having a conversation with Eddie. He explains what the second lesson for Eddie is. The second lesson is sacrifice. He explains that sometimes you have to sacrifice things weather it’s a big or small sacrifice everyone sacrifices. He exclaims that’s sacrifice is a part of life. This is important because Eddie never understood sacrifice. The Captain sacrificed his life for Eddie and he never understood that it’s apart of life. It’s not something to regret, it’s something to aspire.

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During this page we are introduced to Ruby.  Ruby is the lady Eddie has been talking to in-front of the cafe. Ruby's husband built the pier and named it after her. This is important because knowing about the pier history is good because Eddie grew up there and even thought Ruby was not apart of Eddies life they are connected in a way because Eddie is so connect to the Ruby Pier.

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During this page we are introduced to the crazies, the crazies are the 4 soldiers who have captured Eddie, his captain and two other men that they are with. The Captain gave them the name “The Crazies”. The Crazies could not speak English so they couldn’t understand. This is important because Eddie and the other men were trapped here for months and being controlled by the Crazies. Having to work all day and barely getting enough food to service. This impacted Eddie a lot because while trying to escape he got his leg shot and the captain died.

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During this page Eddie is talking with the second person (his Captain). The captain asks him if the men had all stayed in touch. Eddies response to that was no. All the men went there separate ways. They all wanted to forget about the war and live there’s lives. This is important because Eddie never knew how the captain died, and the captain never got to see it to the end of the war to make sure everyone stayed in touch.

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Pg. 142.  During this page Eddie is learning what his third lesson is from Ruby. Ruby tells Eddie that he should forgive his father and move on. For Eddie this is hard to do because of all the stuff Eddies father put him through. After learning that Eddie father actually had a kind heart and saved his bestfriend from dying even after he did something horribly wrong showed Eddie that his father was actually a decent human being, but just can’t replace everything his father did to him. This is important because Eddies third lesson is forgiveness. He finds it hard to forgive his father for everything he did. But takes it into consideration now knowing that his father was nice just was hard on Eddie.

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During this page we find out that Eddies father dies. No one knows what his father was really doing before he died but they are all curious on why he was hanging out the window. The nurses who found him were scared of losing there job because of this so they just put him back in his bad acting like nothing happened. The story was that he died in his sleep. This is important because Eddie never really knew how he died. Everyone believed he died in his sleep because of what the nurses said. Now Eddie know what he died of and how he died.

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During this scene Eddie meets his fifth person. His fifth person is Tala, the girl from the fire back when Eddie was in the war. Tala is in the river and hands Eddie a stone. Tesla has burns all over her and Eddie is now cleaning the burns off in the river with a stone. This is important because when Eddie is taking the burns off of Tala it’s like Tala is giving Eddie a second chance to redeem himself for what he did back when he was in the war.

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During this page Eddie is explaining to Tala that he had no purpose is life and that he basically waisted it. Tala says otherwise explaining to him that he was so much more than just a maintenance guy that he would protect the children and keep them safe. This is important because Eddie felt hopeless and had no idea what his purpose of life was until Tala explained to him why he was so important and why many children loved him.

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During this page Eddie is asking Tala if she knows about the little girl at the pier that ran underneath the falling ride the day Eddie died. He asks if he saved her. Tala reply’s with saying “Push” Eddie was confused because he knew that he felt her hands. Tala explains that Eddie did save the little girl and that the hands were Talas bringing him safely to heaven. This is very important because the whole book Eddie was concerned if he had saved the little girl or not. Now he knew that he had saved the little girl and did have a purpose of life. Keeping the children safe.

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During this scene we get reintroduced to Nicky. Nicky was the guy in the beginning of the book that dropped his keys causing the ride to malfunction and Eddie die. We learnt that Nicky is the great grandson of Ruby, Eddies 3rd person. This is very important because Eddies third person was Ruby. Ruby was the girl who the pier was named after and the reason Eddie had died was because of her grandson showing us that everyone is connected.