The Blue Man’s story make Eddie thinks the Blue Man is going to punish him but instead he explains that this story is just a lesson to teach him that all lives
are interrelated. The Blue Man disappears and time goes back to Eddie’s seventeenth birthday celebration. It is a short time after Eddie had met Marguerite.
The Blue Man teaches Eddie his first lesson, which is that there are no random acts in life, and that all incidents are intertwined in some way.
After analyze, The Blue Man worked as a fake man in a circus when he was alive. In heaven The Blue Man gives Eddie advice that all lives are
interrelated, from one event to the other events, from one person to the other person.
3.3 Captain
The Captain is a soul of Eddies commanding officer in WWII. The men looked up to him because of one promise that the Captain promised to ensure to
his soldiers: no man gets left behind. After escaping the mine the survivors had stolen a truck and drove away. Upon coming to a closed gate the Captain got out
of the truck to check for enemy activity and to open the gate. Ordering his men to stay in the truck he stated that he would check the road ahead for any enemy
soldiers. As he walked down the road he stepped on a landmine, detonating it, and
dying.
The Captain is the second desperated spirit that Eddie meet in heaven. Eddie left Ruby Pier. And suddenly hes now in a war atmosphere gripping. And it
turns out, hes back to his youth, when he was assigned to the Philippines for WWII World War II. Eddie is now a young man during the war. He hears the
voice of the Captain he served under when he was in the army. He is Eddie’s second person. During the war, Eddie, the Captain and three other soldiers had
been captured by the enemy. First they were imprisoned in a hut and then they were taken to work in a coal mine. They were treated badly and given very little to
eat. In the fourth month, one of the soldiers, Robozzo, fell ill and was shot by one
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of the enemy soldiers. At this point Eddie started to concentrate on finding a way to escape.
One night the enemy soldier who was guarding them was trying to juggle. Eddie, having learnt this skill at Ruby Park, started to show him how to do it
properly and the other enemy soldiers came to watch. Eddie used the rocks he was juggling with as weapons and the other soldiers took advantage of the situation to
overthrow and kill the enemy soldiers. After escaping they decided to burn down the coal mine buildings in revenge. When everything was alight, Eddie thought he
saw the figure of a young child crawling inside one of the burning buildings. The other soldiers shouted at him to leave but he moved toward the building, closer to
the fire. He wanted to help the child and he got so close that his clothes began to burn. Suddenly he felt a terrible pain in his leg and he fell down. He had been
shot. The other soldiers pulled him out of the fire and lifted him onto a vehicle and Eddie remembered little more. The Captain now explains that he had shot
Eddie to save him from dying in the fire. The Captain thought he was having a breakdown and that it was better to sacrifice the man’s leg rather than the man’s
life. The Captain had also died a short time later when he had gone ahead of the vehicle to check the way was safe and had stood on a bomb. Eddie at the time was
unconscious in the truck and therefore never knew how the Captain died The Captain now explains that the second lesson is about sacrifice. Life is full of
sacrifices and everybody has to make them. Sacrifice is not about what you lose but about what you and others gain.
Many lessons that Eddie got during the war at the time. He learned to drive a tank. At that time, he recalled, that he has learned to cut helmet with cold water.
He learned to shoot from the holes of the protection. He learned how to smoke. He learned how to cross a rope bridge when bringing radio, gas masks, a machine
gun, a duffel bag. He learned a few words in various foreign languages. He learned to whistle through his teeth. He learned how to sleep in the rocky soil. He
learned how to catch a fugitive and many more. He realized that he was with the
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captain. The blast injured the foot next to the left Eddie, that have resulted in him limping, it ceased to be an army at the time, it was the captain of himself.
After analyze this character, we know that when Captain alive, he was an army like Eddie. In heaven, The Captain teach Eddie that although he shot Eddie,
he kept his promise by not leaving him behind and even sacrificed his life so Eddie and two other soldiers were able to live. He also teaches Eddie that when
one loses something, they often gain something else.
3.4 Ruby Pier
