4.1.6 Respectful
Eddie and Ruby are so intimate. They meet in heaven. They meet in an amusement park. Ruby tells Eddie about her life and an amusement park where
Eddie and his father work. He is the owner of Ruby Pier, the third person Eddie meets in heaven. Ruby tells about her regret in building the Ruby Pier. She lost
her fortune and raises her three children in a small flat with her husband. She lives alone after her husband died. When Ruby tells about it Eddie just silent and looks
at the sky and Eddie says that whoever has built Ruby Pier has done something else with his money. He says sorry about this. It shows in quotation below:
“THE OLD WOMAN sat in silence. Eddie studied the vast jade sky. He thought about how many times he had wished this same thing, that
whoever had built Ruby Pier had done something else with his money. Im sorry about your husband, Eddie said, mostly because he didnt
know what else to say. The old woman smiled. Thank you, dear. But we lived many years beyond those flames. We raised three children.
Emile was sickly, in and out of the hospital. He left me a widow in my fifties. You see this face, these wrinkles? She turned her cheeks
upward. I earned every one of them.” Albom, 2003: 122–123.
4.1.7 Emotional
One day in heaven when Eddie meets Captain and they talk about war. Captain tells about his principles. How to keep principle idea in war. Suddenly
Captain said about Eddie’s legs. Captain tells that his legs was shooted by him. Eddie shocks and gets angry. Eddie pushes Captain and shakes him. It shows that
Eddie is an emotional person and easily angry. It can be seen from the following quotation:
“WHY? YOU BASTARD You bastard Not you WHY? They were grappling now on the muddy earth. Eddie straddled the
Captains chest, pummeling him with blows to the face. The Captain
62 did not bleed. Eddie shook him by the collar and banged his skull
against the mud. The Captain did not blink. Instead, he rolled from side to side with each punch, allowing Eddie his rage. Finally, with
one arm, he grabbed Eddie and flipped him over”. Albom, 2003: 87.
4.1.8 Pious
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