What does Eddie look like and what kind of guy is he? Use examples from the text.
What is it about a pier amusement park that makes it an interesting/good/ironic setting for the story? Explain. Use examples from the text.
Hint: check out p. 6 for my favorite quote.
Be thorough, use examples from the text and either post your response as a comment to this post OR in your "Five People" notebook.
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ReplyDeleteEddie is an old man that works at the amusement park. He is 83 years old. He always uses a cane because of an accident in WW2.His face is broad and craggy from the sun.His legs are very thin.He always looks prouder than he actually is.
ReplyDeleteEddie works at the pier. The pier is where Eddie dies trying to save a girl. The ironic thing about his death is that the pier is supposed to be a fun place but it turn into a sad place after he died. He died because a ride went loco and a cart crashed.
Those are some facts about Eddie and the place where he worked and died.
this is tevin from group d. eddie is a old man, he has scars on his knee and scars in other places, his skin is like leather. he was a fighter when he was younger, he fought off 5 guys off of his older brother with a trash can lid. he is heroik because he lept for the little girl when she had fallen under the roller coaster. he has a cane, he is very kind ex:he made a little girl a bunnie out of pipe wire, he doesent like teenagers though, some of the little kids at the amusment park call him the ride man. all and all eddie is a good guy. yep yep comment comment
ReplyDeletehe is a really old guy with bad posture and he is very nice and stuff. he helped the little girl make an animal out of pipe cleaners.(pg 12) it is kinda funny because you go to them to have fun.
ReplyDeleteEddie looks like your regular cranky old man that doesn't like teenagers, but has a soft spot for small children because they are pure (page 3). His lower jaw juts out. He is a, squat, white haired man. His thick forearms, with his army tattoo on his right shoulder, tie in neatly with his barrel like chest. His thinned veined legs show the wear and tear of life and his left knee has been ruined by arthritis and the war wound. Eddie’s face is broad and craggy from the sun. Eddie is an old man that has lost most of the people he has cared about in his life. His life has become a routine or a rut that Eddie can't get out of. (Page 2) Eddie has never been anywhere outside of America that he wasn't shipped to with a rifle. (Page 6) Eddie dress's like a working man because he is a working man. He wears a brown jumpsuit and rubber soled black shoes. He also has a silver cane that he uses to get around. (Page 2)
ReplyDeleteThe pier amusement park is an ironic setting for this story. It's ironic because most stories don't happen in an amusement park they happen in a house or a city, or in a combination of places, but not usually in a place like an amusement park. The amusement park being on a pier makes it even more interesting of a setting because it's near the ocean, but yet it still has dry land qualities and I've never read a story that happened on a boardwalk or pier. Also an amusement park is for young people and Eddie is growing old in it.