Booksnap Project, English 3 CP Gianna Badillo by Gianna Badillo

Page 65 - "Second Person"

badillog2 — 2025-05-09 15:52:22 UTC

(INSERT IMAGE) I chose to evaluate this page due to the hopeful tone that's set when the Captain is asking Eddie questions about his life after the war. His curiosity about if Eddie and his other men were able to enjoy their lives. He wanted to know if Eddie did all the fun things they all planned to do together and the tone is bitterly playful. Eddie enjoyed the memories and the thoughts of their plans but was immediately mellowed due to the fact that it never happened and the fact of the Captain's death.

Page 97 - "Second Person"

badillog2 — 2025-05-09 16:00:18 UTC

(INSERT IMAGE) This scene goes over the people around Eddie post-death. The tone is very sorrowful. Eddie always viewed himself as a lonely or even bitter guy. He is painted as obviously valued and missed as Dominguez and Willie sat in the park waiting for Eddie despite the park being closed. Both Willie and Dominguez claim to have difficulty resting and attempting to avoid the conversation of Eddie. This scene is an important acknowledgement to Eddie's societal image, or at least professional image.

Page 95 - "Second Person"

badillog2 — 2025-05-09 16:04:11 UTC

(INSERT IMAGE) This scene deals with Eddie's confusion in the Captains choices in action. Why is he deciding to wait on the battleground, why was he so okay with dying if that meant Eddie could live? When he asks the Captain why, he explains that all he had ever known was the life that he had died knowing - war. His only wish was to see the world before war. The tone is sorrowful. To only know and understand the concepts of war and only know the stress of war is something that people should only have temporary exposure to if any. The Captain was a young man with a future ahead of him as well. Despite growing up around violent and combative views, all he sought out for was the beauty of the things around him and the value of living.

Page 93 - "Second Person"

badillog2 — 2025-05-09 16:10:05 UTC

(INSERT IMAGE) As the Captain explains the simplicity yet impactful decision of sacrifice and how we all make them, Eddie feels a sense of disorientation. How could somebody die for another and be so okay with losing their life? The tone is reassuring, the Captain explains to Eddie how a sacrifice is something that we all make at one point or another. He critiques Eddie about his anger for his sacrifice, the selfish undertones of his anger being what he had been stripped of rather than what he had gained. Eddie doesn't understand the bigger meaning of sacrifice or how it's supposed to be something of pride or confidence, it's not something to regret. The Captain tells you he didn't die in vein and that if he didn't die in that moment, the entire unit would've been dead with him.

Page 49 - "The First Lesson"

badillog2 — 2025-05-09 16:11:34 UTC

This scene is comforting to an extent. The Blue Man explains his contentment with his death because to him, it was a trade off for Eddie to live. That's a confusing concept. In Eddie's head, you gain nothing from dying in this situation but to the Blue Man, what he gains is Eddie being able to continue life. The Blue Man has a sweet outlook on life, describing strangers as family you're yet to know. He communicates his life with Eddie through experience, stories and physical contact. The connection between the Blue Man and Eddie are beyond his death, but actually, within their similarities for their lives even if they didn't know each other throughout the chapters their similarities took place.

Page 45 - "The First Lesson"

badillog2 — 2025-05-09 16:14:47 UTC

This page bothered me. It highlights the first words we receive from Eddie's father. Eddie was just communicating his discomfort in his shoes and we get a good highlight on their tough relationship together. His father immediately shuts him down and disregards his complaints. We also get a good peek into Eddie's child-self thought process. This scene is the preparations for the Blue Man's funeral and Eddie's discomfort is valid because he is confused and it's his birthday. He just wants to have fun on his birthday.

Page 39 - "The First Lesson"

badillog2 — 2025-05-09 16:16:47 UTC

The Blue Man is trying to connect with Eddie through his struggles and by introducing himself. This is the first real description we receive from the Blue Man aside from just his blue description; we gain background. Eddie's confusion on the situation is met with anger and denial on what happened to the blue man which leads to a tense situation that the blue man is attempting to diffuse. I chose this page because it gives us a beginning on how quick Eddie becomes defensive and unwilling to listen when he believes he's right. He becomes passively aggressive and goes by a deny deny deny policy for as long as he can't recall or be given evidence on what happened. This will later change due to the first lesson being that everybody is connected and that nothing that happens is random.

Page 40 - "The First Lesson"

badillog2 — 2025-05-09 16:17:15 UTC

This page creates more emphasis on the Blue Man's background with Eddie and relates even more with Eddie's situation regarding his father. There is a level of self-shame and parental induced shame that occurs here. This will be a reoccurring topic throughout a few chapters and allow Eddie to have some insight on his own situations and emotions. The Blue Man creates this bitter yet solemn tone when he claims, "I was not always a freak, Edward." It confronts how we give an impression of someone simply on how they appear, even if they can't help it. He had a situation that turned him into who he was and he needed to find comfort in the circus because from a societal standpoint, that's just where he belonged.

Page 104 - "Third Person"

badillog2 — 2025-05-15 15:43:48 UTC

The metaphor of youth being like a high-end fragile glass that cant help but get hand prints and cracks on it. Relating the youth to Eddie and how he yearned for his father's attention. He spent most of his days under watch of other workers, waiting until his father would be back. It was noted that his father would often return drunk and Eddie's idealistic views of the pier being the snacks and rides, he felt dull for not experiencing it with his father.

Page 108 - "Third Person"

badillog2 — 2025-05-15 15:44:44 UTC

We explore Eddie's post-combat depression. He had changed both physically and mentally. He stayed in the house and didn't speak to people, he also would zone out out the window often. His father grew frustrated by Eddie's depression because of his confusion with the concept of depression. He didn't want to understand Eddie, he just didn't want to see Eddie lousing around. He came home drunk from the local bar. He saw Eddie sleeping on the couch and drunkenly woke him up, screaming at him to get a job. Eddie wasn't being combative or rebutting his father but his father continued on and instigated the situation. Eventually, Eddie's dad attempted to throw a punch and Eddie moved out of the way, catching his father's arm. This is an empowering scene. Despite Eddie being at one of his lowest moments in his life, he was able to stand up to his father without cursing him or physically harming him. It shows Eddie's self control and respect for his father which is admirable - especially considering his depression.

Page 110 - "Third Person"

badillog2 — 2025-05-15 15:45:15 UTC

This page goes over Eddie's grievances with his father. Just previously, he was banging on the glass and yelling for his father's attention but now, he's frustrated - believing that even in heaven his father is ignoring him. He believes that his father damaged him, ruined him. A woman, later to be known as Ruby confronts him and explains to him that his father can't hear him so he shouldn't stress him. This is bother literal and symbolic, his father wouldn't understand his point of view even if he explained it till he's blue in the face, and even if he was explaining it very well, his father quite literally cannot hear him.

Page 137 - "Third Person"

badillog2 — 2025-05-15 15:53:14 UTC

This is a very impactful and meaningful scene that covers the topic of value and forgiveness. Mickey Shea had just gotten drunk and attempted to sexually assault Eddie's mother. Eddie's father gets involved and Mickey Shea runs out of the house. Eddie's dad follows Mickey Shea outside in order to pursue a physical altercation but he notices that Mickey Shea is suffering from alcohol poisoning in the water and barely able to stay afloat. Eddie's father jumps in and saves Mickey Shea, which eventually leads to his death by pneumonia. Eddie sees this entire situation unfold and is confused by his father's actions. Ruby explains to Eddie that his father is being compassionate to Mickey Shea because he realized all that Mickey has done for their family and that he was going through a hard time in that moment. While I do not agree that Mickey Shea going through a hard time justifies him assaulting Eddie's mom, I do agree with the father's actions in saving him.

Page 192 - "Fifth Person"

badillog2 — 2025-05-27 15:55:10 UTC

Eddie finally finds out if the little girl at the pier was saved by his actions or not. All of the doubts that he had and feelings that he had died for nothing were all about to be either reestablished or reassured. He gets confirmation that she lived, and that he didn't die for nothing like he felt he did. He has reasonable doubts, wondering why he had felt hands if he safely pushed that little girl out of the way. Tala reassures him that the hands that he had felt were hers and that she was the one to keep him safe. Tala combines all the other 4 lessons into her own and proves to Eddie that he had a purpose that meant so much to her even if it wasn't much to him.

Page 190 - "Fifth Person"

badillog2 — 2025-05-27 15:55:50 UTC

The topic that Eddie had never had children comes up as the first line on this page and it catches my eye because Eddie wasn't too adamant on having a child but feels a sense of shame that he never had one in regard to Marguerite. Tala forcing Eddie to wash her in order to remove the scar tissue from her skin was to symbolize to Eddie that it was all something that could be moved forward from. She rests her head onto Eddie showing her comfort with him and allowing him to wash her shows a level of trust that Eddie may feel like she shouldn't give him. As he washes her, she reveals that she is his fifth person and wonders what's upsetting him.

Page 188 - "Fifth Person"

badillog2 — 2025-05-27 15:56:17 UTC

Eddie finds out how Tala passed in this scene. She died in he barnhojuse that he had set on fire as described back in season one. EEddies shock on the news is described as he calls back everything that we read on in part two where he was adament that someone was in the barn and everyone was telling him how there was nobody. Her death is the most important one out of everybody else involved. It reshaped the direction of his life; ge4tting shot in the leg, the PTSD and depression he suffered from it, the strain in his relationship with Marguerite, feeling stuck working at the pier and the shame he felt that he was never able to move out of the there and follow the dreams that him and Marguerite had.

Page 184 - "Fifth Person"

badillog2 — 2025-05-27 15:59:09 UTC

This page highlights the speed of which time passes Eddie by and the highlighted moments in his life before death, likely being the moments that he remembers most or is willing to call back o most vividly. It goes over how vague and quick life passed EDdie by once Marguerite had passed.

Page 150 - "Fourth Person"

badillog2 — 2025-05-27 16:00:36 UTC

This scene is Eddie's first interaction with Marguerite since her passing and he's left in a state of disbelief. He felt weak and stunned and it was the first time he had felt that way in a very long time. His legs grew weak and his heart suddenly soft. Marguerite's phrase, "For the bitter and the sweet," is on par with her heaven's theme, marriage and symbolic to their relationship towards the end when it was patchy. This scene made my heart melt. I inferred prior that Eddie would see Marguerite. It only made sense that he would given they were both huge impacts on each other's lives. Understanding who Eddie is and learning his emotional thought process really makes this scene heavy.

Page 156 - "Fourth Person"

badillog2 — 2025-05-27 16:01:31 UTC

This scene gives more context to Marguerite's appearance, explaining that she looks just as youthful as the day her and Eddie got married. I felt a light and playful feeling from this scene. Marguerite teasing Eddie on if he forgot how she used to look and his quick reassurance that he never did. They were acting as if they were a young and playful couple with no weights to worry for.

Page 162 - "Fourth Person"

badillog2 — 2025-05-27 16:02:29 UTC

This scene highlights a crucial turning point in both Marguerite and Eddie's lives. The plans that they had for a kid quickly being stripped from them is heartbreaking. Especially with the prior knowledge that they'd been trying for a baby and have been unsuccessful. All Marguerite had wanted was a child and was passionate about the topic. On the other end, the two children that were on that overpass were just having a fun and degenerate evening. This goes back to the blue man and how there are no random acts. The incentive that the children had were to just have a fun night, not to harm Marguerite, alas, it happened and effected her and Eddie's life crucially. A way it'll never be again.

Page 175 - "Fourth Person

badillog2 — 2025-05-27 16:03:31 UTC

Eddie wants to see Marguerite how she was when he had last known her. Aged and well-loved. Marguerite originally appeared young because she believed that Eddie would like it better this way. But Eddie wanted to see his wife, his aged wife, the woman who grew with him.