Ruby Bridge Analysis

In the play ‘ A View From The Bridge” The protagonist Eddie, an Italian immigrant, seems to have complex relationship with who seems to be his wife’s orphaned niece Catherine throughout the whole play.

In Mary Lawson’s The Other Side Of the Bridge, the proginist, Arthur Dunn faces many problems and obstacles throughout the novel, Arthur eventually overcomes his negative emotions and obstacles and comes to peace with them. Arthur overcomes his resentment and emotions towards Jake and overcomes his negative feelings towards Laura and the farm.

The author wrote about Eddie who has been having it rough lately. He tried to make the best out of his situation living under the circumstances that he does. His family keeps pressuring into avenging his cousin's death. But he still manages to keep his head held high although it seemed like the entire world was against him. He avoids getting into trouble or doing drugs because he knows that he wants a good future and doing those things would not help. He keeps his head down and works for his dollar no matter how hard it can get for him.

His second stop is where he meets his commanding officer of his world war II platoon. Eddie remembers being held captive along with his captain and four others. He also was the one responsible for coming up with a plan for them to escape. After they did that the captain told them to burn the place they were held captive but eddie ran back because he thought he saw a young girl, but a bullet was shot and hit him right in the knee. He learned the importance of sacrifice from the captain who then says that that it was him who shot eddie. He says that he had to sacrifice his knee in order to save his life. The captain then reveals that he died because he stepped on a landmine getting Eddie to safety, meaning he also made sacrifice.One his way out he advises Eddie to let go of his anger. The third stop is where he sees a vision of his father. He had flashbacks of the abuse he suffered from the hands of his father when he was drunk.then he meets Ruby who’s husband is the founder of Ruby Pier which was named after her. She offers him a new way to look at his father’s death. Eddie believed that his father died because he made a decision while drunk to jump into the freezing water and caught pneumonia, but really he was trying to save his friend mickey’s life. Mickey tried to kill himself after Eddie’s father caught him assaulting

The book The Five People You Meet In Heaven is about a kid named Eddie that strives to keep Ruby Pier a safe place to ride and who is also a crippled veteran. People used to call him Eddie maintenance because he had a tag that said maintenance. Eddie dies at the age of eighty-three. Eddie had an assistant who was named Dominguez who also help keep the rides safe. One day at Ruby Pier the ride Freddy’s Free Fall malfunctioned because a passenger lost their keys on ride which made the tilt over and hang off the track. Then when Eddie seen that the cart was hanging off the edge he tried to tell the people who work at the ride how to fix the ride but it was too late then the cart fell. Standing directly under the cart was a little girl and when

In the Ruby Bridges story that she wrote she expressed how she felt and what she was felling at this time. Ruby Bridges was considered in the category of being an integrate to the people in her school the parents of the children in the school the teachers and she was constantly threatened. The first story tells what was happening such as “protesters carrying signs,yelling insults,and throwing things.” The tim that Ruby was alive the people in her world were very racist against the color of her skin.

     Upon hearing this Eddie feels awful and asks why the blue man died instead of Eddie. The blue man assures him that it was okay and that everything happens for a reason. “There are no random acts. That we are all connected. That you can no more separate one life from another than you can separate a breeze from the wind” (Albom, 48). This was the first lesson for Eddie. That everything happens for a reason and that no life is a waste. “No life is a waste, the only time we waste is the time we spend thinking that we are alone.” (50)

He also felt very cal very calm. He meets this guy named the Blue moon who works at Ruby pier slideshow. During the conversation Eddie find out that he is dead and he has gone to heaven.

Eddie came to peace with his life and his death. Throughout his life he felt like he was stuck at Ruby Pier, unhappy and doing the same thing over and over again. When he gets to heaven he does not understand why he died. He thinks his life was boring and unimportant and his death was a waste because he does not even know if he saved Amy or Annie. Going through his five people, each with a different lesson to help teach Eddie why certain things happened,

Eddie is presented as a tragic hero. A tragic hero is a man of honourable birth and of high importance. He is a well-respected figure in the Red Hook community, which we see when Louis admires his

Then comes Marguerite, the love of Eddies life. She gave him a purpose. He found meaning to life within her. One day she tragically, but quite dully, passes away. Eddie is crushed, not only for his loss of his wife, but the loss of life’s meaning itself. He feels he amounted to nothing in his time on Earth, and is determined to make a name for himself. Unfortunately, it is too late in his life to start over, so he spends the rest of his days alone and miserable at Ruby Pier Park. This section touched upon love, loss, and life’s meaning. Eddie spent his whole life dedicated to loving his wife, and for what? So, she can just up and die. It almost feels as if there really wasn’t meaning to his life, that is until he met Tala.

In the book The Five People You Meet in Heaven a guy named Eddie meet with 5 different people in heaven. Some of the people Eddie meets with he has met before and knows and others he has never met. When Eddie was alive he was angry over many things because he didn’t know why they happened to him. When he went to heaven and met these 5 people he was taught at least one good lesson from each of them.

Eddie had worked at Ruby Piers for years. He never really knew the backstory of the pier, but when he met Ruby, it made a whole lot more sense. He was confused at first because Ruby’s time was prior to Eddie’s life. Ruby taught Eddie that forgiveness is key to living a happy life. Ruby also let Eddie know that it is ok to not feel guilty about things for the rest of your life.

His heaven is Ruby Pier, where he felt truly at home. He teaches Eddie the importance of listening. He also explains that there are no “random acts”, that everyone and every action is connected in some way, and that fairness plays no role in life. “If it did, no good person would ever die so

With Hiroshige’s Twilight Moon at Ryogoku Bridge and Whistler’s Nocturne in Blue and Gold there are many formal elements. For instance, the lines in both works tell us a lot. The lines the boats are on give a sense of motion and direction, while the vertical lines for the bridges show stability. The vibrant colors of Hiroshige’s work give a good indication of what the bridge would look like at twilight. On the other hand, Whistler’s use of dull colors gives the work a dark and foggy setting. Also, with the space shown between the bridge of both images you get an idea of the setting of both works with views of the background. The texture of Hiroshige’s work is smooth while Whistler’s is hazy. These visual elements help to establish the