Think about Eddie's war experiences and discuss your reactions to Albom's evocation of war. What did Eddie learn by being in war? How did he "come home a different man?" (85).
Why did the Captain shoot Eddie? What is the meaning when the Captain tells Eddie, "I took your leg to save your life"? Why does the Captain tell Eddie that sacrifice is not really a loss but a gain?
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The war was very bloody and had a lot of changing points. He described the scenery very well. He described the mine that he dug in for his captors. Albom described when crazy 2 shot Rabozzo in the head through the ear.
ReplyDeleteThe captain told eddie that a sacrifice is a gain, not a loss because Eddie sacrificed his leg to save his life. The Captain shot Eddie in the leg to stop him from going to far into the fire. Eddie was going into the fire because he thought he saw a young kid in the fire, so he went to save him/her. Eddie sacrificed his life to save (or attempt) to save the little girl at Ruby Pier.
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ReplyDeleteEddie's war expirences were grousem and terrifying for him and his team. Alboms descipshin of the war in eddie's prespective was so desciptive it was like i was standing there watching this happen to eddie and his team. Eddie learned how to care for other people an not just for himself. He came home a diffrent man because he had got shot and his life had been turned around and had a new meaning in life. The captian shot eddie because eddie thought he saw someone in the burning barn and he started to walk into the burning building, but the captian noticed he was just seeing things so he shot him in the leg to save his life, if he didnt shoot him he would have burned to death. The captian tells eddie a sacrafice is not really a loss but a gain, because you are sacraficing your own life for someone else.
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ReplyDeleteEddie learned in war that a true leader will never leave a man behind. His Captiain reminds him in Heaven (p.g.94) that the Captain also gained something by shooting Eddie in the leg. The Captain got to know that he would never leave a man behind before he died.
ReplyDeleteEddie came back home with a bad leg after getting shot. He came home from the war grouchy. He learnd what it was like to live behind bars. He learend what it was like to kill someone. He learnd what it was like to see someone get killed. He learend how to be a leader.
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ReplyDeleteI thought that the war changed alot and some of it was very bloody. There was alot of action in the war. He described the mine that was dug for his captors.
ReplyDeleteEddie learned by being in the war that sacrafising a part of your own body will save your life.
Eddie came home a different man because he had lost everything: his running skills, his dancing skills, and his fellings for what he did.
The captain shot Eddie because when they were fighting in the war, he saw something that looked like a kid in a burning barn. Morton tried to save him, but Eddie turned around and hit him in the face. Eddie was just too strong for both of them. Then the Captain shot him in the leg to save is life.
The Captain said ''I took your leg to save your life'' because he means that he shot Eddie's leg t save his life.
The Captain said to Eddie that sacrifice is not really a loss but a gain because if you sacrafise something, you gain something. Just like at Ruby Pier. His sacrafised his life to save a little girl.
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ReplyDeleteEddies war was grousem and terrifying for him and the team. He also lurned to never get left behined to also never disobay an order.
ReplyDeletealbom discribed it very well so that it felt like that i was right there with eddie learned about sacrafice. .the captain shot eddie because he was to strong to pull away from the building so the captain shot him in the knee so that they could save eddie from going into the building and dieing.that sentance means that to gain some thing you have to loose something.what the captain meant was that he loss his leg but that wasnt the point the point was that he took his leg and saved his life. hows that mrs v
ReplyDeleteEddie came home a different man because he had a gun shot wound in his knee. He was almost cripled for the rest of his life but he was parshly crpled. He also could not dance again.
ReplyDeletealbons descripion of war made me feel like I was there like the gun fire in the distance and the lifeless terrain pg:56 that he described and the fallen trees pg:56.What eddie learned in the war was how to ride atop a tank,how to shave with cold water in his helmet,when in a fox hole not to shoot a tree cause the shrapnel would fly back and wound him.Eddie came back a diffrerent man because he was shot in the leg and could'nt dance or run.The captain shot eddie in the leg to keep him from walking into the building that was on fire and burning.The meaning of the captain saying "I took your leg to save your life" is the captain new that a leg would heal and eddie would have died if he walked into the fire.The captain told eddie that his leg wasnt a loss but a gain because if eddie had walked into the fire he would of died but with the leg injury eddie gained his chances of life back.
ReplyDeleteThe captain shot Eddie to stop him from going in to the burning barn to save that one person. But some of his team mates were trying to stop him but he was to strong so that is why the captian shot him in the knee.
ReplyDeleteThe meaning for tha captain of saying i took your leg to save your life. Is that he saved his life by shooting him in the leg to stop him from going in to the burning barn cause he couldent walk on that shot knee he had.
Albom's description of Eddie's experiences in the war is very real of what war must look like in terms of the blood and gore of war. Albom is also very realistic in that POWs weren't just locked up in cages, but they had to sometimes work in like mines and factories to support the enemy’s war effort. I was surprised when Albom was describing Eddie's soup and he found the dead hornet with its wings ripped off.
ReplyDeleteEddie learned many things from the war like: shaving in cold water from his helmet, riding atop a tank and proper technique for shooting from a foxhole. One of the more important things he learned from the war is what his captain kept telling his unit,"Don’t leave any man behind".
Eddie came home from the war a changed man because he had seen the blood of men be shed. He saw his friend Rabozzo get his brains blew out when he got sick and couldn't work in the mine anymore. Eddie also found were his snapping point was he just didn't know at the time.
The captain shot Eddie in the leg so that they could get him out of the burning barn were he thought he saw a child like figure and he was trying to save it. The Captain had to shoot Eddie because when Morton tried to pull him out he decked him and put him on his back. Eddie was just too strong for them to physically pull him out so they had to handicap him.
When the Captain says "I took your leg to save your life" he means that if he didn't shoot him in the leg he would have kept traveling into the burning barn were he would have met a dreary end when he burned to death. Eddie was just too strong to be physically pulled out.
The Captain tells Eddie that a sacrifice is not a loss, but a gain because if the Captain hadn't stepped on the landmine then the truck would have run over it killing all them.
he came home a changed man because he saw stuff a different way. the captain shot eddies leg to save his life because eddie was going to jump in the fire to save what he thought was somebody.
ReplyDeleteeddie had one of the worst war experiences that i have ever heard. If the war tought him anything, it would be lifes daily hardships that soldiers face everyday.
ReplyDeleteWhen eddie first escaped the POW prison, he and his captain and two others were running and eddie thought he heard a voice coming from the mine shaft(he really did) he was in a sort of daze and wasn't thinking right and he started to walk twards the min shaft. the captain then shot him so he would stop running into the mine shaft.
the captian took eddies leg instead of letting him ruin his life by running into that fire.
i didnt read this part of the book i was gone i will have to read it
ReplyDeleteEddies war expieriences were devastating, yet good for him.The devastating part would be were he gets shot in the knee.The part that was good for him would be learning to respect himself and others. Also to work hard to live.
ReplyDeleteAlboms evocation of war seems very realistic and truthful.I could believe that Eddie told Albom personally as Albom wrote it down.
The captain shot Eddie because Eddie was fixing to go into a burning building because he thought he saw a shadow in the building. Therefore the captain shot Eddie so he could not go into the burning building.
When the captain tells Eddie that "i took your leg to save your life" he ment that he shot Eddie in the knee so he could not go into the burning building where he would have burnt to death.
The captain tells Eddie that sacrifice is not a loss but a gain because when someone sacrifices themselve they save others because the others would know that they should be cautious in the area of the sacrifice.