A Short Story : A Story?

Eddie felt the pressures and unspoken code of conformity. There was a lot of pressure to fit in, after all to be singled out in the Chinese culture can cause students and their parents to feel shame or to be humiliated in front of their peers but Eddie refused to conform which led to lots of beatings and castigation by his parents and rebuke by his peers.

Throughout the novel, Eddie also can be exemplified as a sympathetic character. sympathetic characters are when readers feel sympathy for throughout a story. The reader can feel empathy for Eddie, when the author describes the pain of Eddie’s gunshot wound. The pain was described to be unbearable and the description of the event of the gunshot pains a morbid picture in the reader’s mind. During Eddie’s time as a soldier in World War II, any reader can feel an astonishing amount of sympathy for Eddie. During, Eddie’s time as a soldier, he experienced, “A piercing pain ripped through Eddie's leg. He screamed a long, hard curse then crumbled to the ground. Blood was spewing below his knee. Plane engines roared. The skies lit in bluish flashes. He lay there, bleeding and burning, his eyes shut against the searing heat, and for the first time in his life, he felt ready to die,” (Albom 84). The reader can comprehend Eddies suffering and pain. Eddie was on the ground, in a war zone hurt and slowly dying. Readers can feel a lot of sympathy for when Eddie wanted to let go of the world and die. Before Eddie’s death, he ran under a falling amusement park ride to save a little girl, Eddie

During the war, Eddie faced a lot of challenges that affected his reason to live. After Eddie helped his men escape a weight was put on him making feel as if he had no reason for life anymore. The three men who was captured along with Eddie, including Eddie’s captain, had burned down the campsite they were being held at. In that moment, Eddie decides to end his life by walking in the fire. To stop him, the captain shot him in the leg causing Eddie to become weak then unconscious. Eddie’s wild act delayed the group of men from leaving. The three men found a vehicle to leave in but came across a locked gate they were unable to drive around “because the ground dropped off sharply on both sides” (90). To get Eddie and the others out safely, the

Fear. Anger. Bitterness. She experienced these emotions at once. The man who haunted her dreams for the past two years stood in front of her. All of her uncertainties rose to the surface, making it hard for her to breathe.

He sees a diner in the distance and runs to it. Eddie sees his father, who was very cold to Eddie and ruined his childhood. He screams and tried to get his

As Eddie tunnels deeper into substance abuse, he begins to turn emotionally listless (or should I say flaccid). The music fades in the mix, and sounds of snorting and moaning are brought up, taking the audience into

Eddie was vexed and expressed all his anger in an unhealthy way and started to, MLA FORMAT HERE. After all the punching and yelling, he finally understood why the captain didn’t want him to die, or to leave him behind. MLE FORMAT EVIDENCE HERE. This is how Eddie got the injury that made him very depressed for the rest of his life. When the general was about to leave Eddie quickly asked, “Wait!

Eddie chose to fit the stereotype to be a cold, distant man who resorted to aggression, violence, and drugs. At Exeter, Eddie assumed that he could not escape from people’s preconceptions, so instead of continuing his quest for a greater future, he gave up and chose to fit the image of how he thought everyone saw him. Eddie never let his guard down and frequently lied about his behavior back home, when “Eddie had fallen from his bicycle while riding through central park… when Eddie returned to Exeter sporting a big bandage and a nasty-looking wound, he informed his classmates he had been injured during a fight on the streets (119). His justification for this lie, he told his mother, was that falling off a bike was not as exciting as getting into a fight. Eddie was caught lying about a lot of his actions, including violent stories about his actions on campus.

Eddie jumped out in front of his car and he latter crashed because of his nerves. The lesson Eddie took from this is the interconnectedness of our lives. This is especially true in the field of medicine.

Eddie's leg injured in the war that brought life-long darkness to him. Eddie is never a typically optimistic man. It was caused by his family when he was a little kid. The war was the one made it worse, especially he injured his leg there. " 'My...leggggg!' Eddies seethes. 'My life!' "(p.88). Eddie used to think that one of the biggest reasons that caused that his life became so dissatisfied was his injuring left leg. That was why he was so mad when he knew that captain who he respected the most shoot his leg. The relationship between Eddie and his father turned to the worst because of it. He has hate his father for a long time, but still preserved some respect. During the time Eddie stayed in the hospital due to his broken leg, his father

 Eddie’s worst fear had come true: he had killed an innocent child during the war while

He rolled his neck around, aching dully from a full day of being bent over drawing after drawing. Pulling out his phone, he checked the time: 5:45. A thunderclap churned out from the sky, perforating the thin glass of the bus and resonating in his ears.

Eddie felt extremely tired, after the alarm incident, he couldn’t sleep. No matter what he did, he just laid on his soft, blue full size bed, for an hour. When 6:30 finally arrived, he trudged out of bed, looking like a zombie. Eyes barely opening, mouth hanging open, and terribly messed up hair.

As the sun slowly dropped behind the horizon and the sky turned to a soft dark blue, Beverly slowly dragged the silver curtains closed. She stumbled in her now darkened room over to the small lamp sitting on the cabinet opposite of her bed. With a tug of the string, the lighted flickered on and covered the room in a pale, orange haze. She briefly looked over at the calendar that hung from her wall, only a few weeks until the end of 1962. She tiredly shuffled over to her bed, she lifted up the bright bedsheets covered in all sorts of flowery patterns and sunk into it. As she closed her eyes, a knock jolted her up.

Then she continued, “I talked to Victor yesterday," and all Ruby got as a reply was a mumble from the other side of the couch. “He was telling me how... Killian was doing." Emma could tell Ruby was trying to be careful with her like she was tiptoeing around broken glass. She was sick and tired of people babying her. Emma was tough, she could handle this. A fucking man does not compare to a life as an orphan and losing a child. If that was the case, then why was she so upset?