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
Ruby Pier is a wowan soul who when alive was the wife of the owner of the arena game, “Ruby Pier”. Her face emaciated, cheeks are sagging, has white
hair. He wears glasses and has a wire blue eyes. She wore a dress made of chiffon and silk with a bodice and sewn with white beads on the top with velvet Ribbon
right below her neck. He has rhinestone skirts and holding an umbrella with both hands. In life, she has been a widow and aged 50s. The dying of this soul does not
tell clearly. Ruby Pier is where the funfair is located. The Pier was named after Ruby by her husband Emile when he built the amusement park for her. It is at the
amusement park, at Ruby Pier, that Eddie works after retired as an army and then died there.
Ruby is the third desperated spirit that Eddie met in heaven. Eddie finds himself in a beautiful mountain landscape. He is now in his thirties. He sees some
flashing lights and walks toward them. There is a café and his father is sitting inside. Eddie’s father had caused him a lot of pain during his life. When Eddie
was a child, he mostly ignored and neglected him.
The figure of the father to Eddie had broken, because from a young Eddie never felt the intimacy of the love of a fathers
saying, and saw the figure of a disappointing because dad likes to get drunk and gamble.
When he was drunk he would also beat Eddie and his brother. When Eddie was an adult, one night after the war, his father came home to find Eddie sleeping on the
sofa. He began to shout at Eddie about being lazy and he tried to hit him. For the first time in his life, Eddie defended himself and his father never spoke to him
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again. Suddenly an old woman appears in front of Eddie. She is Eddie’s third person and her name is Ruby. In life, her husband had built Ruby Park for her.
She talks to Eddie about his father. One night his father had arrived home with his clothes full of sand and
completely wet. He caught a fever and died some time later in hospital. Later Eddie and his wife, Marguerite, had to move back in with Eddie’s mom and Eddie
had to take a job at Ruby Park so that he could be near his mom. Eddie assumed that his father had been drunk on the night he got ill, and blamed him for dying
and trapping him into a life he didn’t want. Ruby shows Eddie the full story. Eddie’s father had died bravely trying to save a friend from drowning despite the
fact that this friend had previously attacked Eddie’s mom. Eddie’s father had later died at a window in the hospital calling out the names of his family, including
Eddie’s. Ruby knew this because her husband had been in the next bed. Ruby tells that Eddies father caught Mickey attempting to rape his wife on returning from
work. Mickey had been drinking heavily after having been fired from his job at the funfair. Eddie’s father comes in his first impulse was to kill him but his final
impulse was to keep the man alive. Mickey had always been a very good friend of the family, he helped Eddie’s father getting a job, he lent money to the family
when necessary etc. They were laying at the beach, soaked, for a couple of hours. Eddies father chased Mickey to the end of the pier where Mickey, drunkenly, fell
off the pier. Eddies father jumped in and rescued Mickey, dragging him to shore. He was 56 years of age then and the sea took its toll on him and he developed
pneumonia and was taken to hospital.Eddie that he must lose his anger and his regrets and forgive his father. This he does.
After analyze, we can conclude that Ruby was as owner of an amusement Park, ‘Ruby Pier’. Eddie get advice from Ruby that Eddie need to learn about
forgiveness especially for his parents. Ruby shows Eddie the importance of forgiveness and how hatred could significantly impact and consume you. Because
of Ruby, Eddie is able to forgive his father for not being the parental figure that he should have been. Holding anger is a poison. It eats you from inside. We think
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that hating is a weapon that attacks the person who harmed us. But hatred is a curved blade. And the harm we do, we do to ourselves, because no one is born
with anger. And when we die, the soul is freed from it.
3.5 Marguerite
