Why does Marguerite want to be in a place where there are only weddings? How does this relate to her own life, and to her relationship and life with Eddie?
(http://www.readinggroupguides.com/guides3/five_people_you_meet1.asp)
Weddings are a major chapter of a woman’s life. Marguerite remembers her happiest time when she and Eddie have found one another and decided to be together as husband and wife. It is during this time that a woman feels that she is most loved by his man. He spends thousands of pesos for a festive to introduce her as his better half and showers her all the love he can give. Weddings tickle and excite women. Marguerite specifies implicitly that hers is the only one she had in this world.
It will always be sunshine to a young girl to have been offered a marriage with a wedding feast full of dances, laughters and surprises. This highlights her shift to greater heights of her feminity. I wish that each man discovers how ecstatic she can be when proposals are made. The contours of a woman’s face glistening all over from her eyes through the nose to lips is her bliss.
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Monday, January 7, 2008
Monday, September 3, 2007
Eddie's War
Sacrifice is a part of life. It's supposed to be. It's something to aspire to. Little sacrifices. Big sacrifices… Sometimes when you sacrifice something precious, you're not really losing it. You're just passing it on to someone else. (CABAnata)
The captain from whom Eddie receives orders teaches him a lesson on sacrifice. It is never in Eddie’s consciousness that his boss in the army gave up all for a great offering. He goes down from the chopper, checks why it could not leave the mountain, and jeopardizes one precious possession. This encounter of soldiers exposes us all to specific terrors of wars and how captives are maltreated, dehumanized and extremely violated. Eddie and his fellow soldiers have their lowest times and search for some light out of a fate seemingly with no end. This is a recall of Eddie’s past kept for more than three decades stirring a memory of one’s greatness.
From the theme park, Eddie is brought to a landscape where ammunitions and hills are a resort. Rebels hide through forests where bombs scare inhabitants and throws flesh, bones and blood. Philippine mountains have served as the story’s setting where a dug out cries about wars:
The Cry of War by Don Ford
From: http://www.gather.com/
Sounds of anguish heard,
The pain of brokenness is felt.
Lives all scattered ‘round –
Cries in war like chorus swells.
The bandages of hope worn thin,
While children’s voices call.
Like whispers of the soul,
And all around the mighty fall.
Shattered broken pieces,
Lack of sacredness in life.
Destruction is their calling card,
They even throw away their lives.
The games they play with bombs as toys,
We gather up the fragments.
These village fools, not martyrs be –
Offering up the child – they vent.
The stench of killing fields below,
Running out of graves to fill.
It leaves an eerie chill in air,
This never ending war of wills.
The captain from whom Eddie receives orders teaches him a lesson on sacrifice. It is never in Eddie’s consciousness that his boss in the army gave up all for a great offering. He goes down from the chopper, checks why it could not leave the mountain, and jeopardizes one precious possession. This encounter of soldiers exposes us all to specific terrors of wars and how captives are maltreated, dehumanized and extremely violated. Eddie and his fellow soldiers have their lowest times and search for some light out of a fate seemingly with no end. This is a recall of Eddie’s past kept for more than three decades stirring a memory of one’s greatness.
From the theme park, Eddie is brought to a landscape where ammunitions and hills are a resort. Rebels hide through forests where bombs scare inhabitants and throws flesh, bones and blood. Philippine mountains have served as the story’s setting where a dug out cries about wars:
The Cry of War by Don Ford
From: http://www.gather.com/
Sounds of anguish heard,
The pain of brokenness is felt.
Lives all scattered ‘round –
Cries in war like chorus swells.
The bandages of hope worn thin,
While children’s voices call.
Like whispers of the soul,
And all around the mighty fall.
Shattered broken pieces,
Lack of sacredness in life.
Destruction is their calling card,
They even throw away their lives.
The games they play with bombs as toys,
We gather up the fragments.
These village fools, not martyrs be –
Offering up the child – they vent.
The stench of killing fields below,
Running out of graves to fill.
It leaves an eerie chill in air,
This never ending war of wills.
Sunday, September 2, 2007
The Blue Man is Never a Happy Man
When one of the park's rides suddenly malfunctions one day, Eddie tries to save a young girl from being crushed beneath it, and loses his life in the process. As though awakening from a dream, he finds himself alone in the deserted theme park and decides to explore. (Wikipedia)
The Blue Man, incidentally, is the first person Eddie meets in heaven. He’s part of a sideshow in the Ruby Pier, a park for kids with so many fantastic rides. He waits for Eddie to teach him a lesson on “knowing that each one is connected to one another.” Eddie, whether aware or not, has caused the death of this freak of the carnival. He got a car crash due to Eddie, the boy running a bicycle. They don’t know each other until the Blue Man tells and Eddie hears his first lesson. Eddie leaves the earth at the age of 83 and finds out how he has affected lives of other people from birth to death. This preliminary set up between and among dead people is prelude to getting face-to-face to what awaits a soul in heaven.
The Blue Man is never a happy man. He’s had a bad childhood memory and tasted life’s curses and pain. Why would he be the first man to meet?
He’s got nitrate for a medicine from a doctor for having no fee to give.
He’s traded youth to acquaintances’ and audiences’ abuse.
He is left with no choice.
He has to perform to live.
Eddie’s own boyhood is not unpleasant at all but the Man’s even more difficult to take. Eddie is loved by his parents and has an older brother. He may have big fights but he succeeds over all of these. He’s got teases and Marguerite.
The Blue Man, incidentally, is the first person Eddie meets in heaven. He’s part of a sideshow in the Ruby Pier, a park for kids with so many fantastic rides. He waits for Eddie to teach him a lesson on “knowing that each one is connected to one another.” Eddie, whether aware or not, has caused the death of this freak of the carnival. He got a car crash due to Eddie, the boy running a bicycle. They don’t know each other until the Blue Man tells and Eddie hears his first lesson. Eddie leaves the earth at the age of 83 and finds out how he has affected lives of other people from birth to death. This preliminary set up between and among dead people is prelude to getting face-to-face to what awaits a soul in heaven.
The Blue Man is never a happy man. He’s had a bad childhood memory and tasted life’s curses and pain. Why would he be the first man to meet?
He’s got nitrate for a medicine from a doctor for having no fee to give.
He’s traded youth to acquaintances’ and audiences’ abuse.
He is left with no choice.
He has to perform to live.
Eddie’s own boyhood is not unpleasant at all but the Man’s even more difficult to take. Eddie is loved by his parents and has an older brother. He may have big fights but he succeeds over all of these. He’s got teases and Marguerite.
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