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TFPYMIH
Character Map - Coggle Diagram
TFPYMIH
Character Map
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Joe
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Joe was a disappointment for his father, but earned a lots of money by becoming a salesman. However, he suddenly dies
Eddie's father
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He damaged Eddie with silence,violence and ignorance
He is a violent, misogynistic alcoholic person
As a child, Eddie tries to win over his love, but his attempts are never met with anything.
He dies from pneumonia, which he caught while saving his friend Mickey Shea during an ocean storm
Eddie
He wants go somewhere else, but he couldn't for his entire life, except when the war happened.
He is a kind old man who works in an amusment park, Ruby Pier.
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He is a conservative man, and thinks that there is nothing he can do for his life
He injured his leg during the war, and has a huge complex about it
He had bad relationship with his father, and the sight of his father, who was disappointed to see him hurt his leg, became a trauma
He loved Marguerite so much, that he couldn't enjoy his life anymore after she passed away
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But actually, he continued his job because of the guilt for Tala, to atone for many children by keeping them safe
After all the death and failiures he experienced, he was trapped in despair, regret.
From the blue man, he learns that there is no random act, and all actions are intertwined in some way to affect the life of someone else
From captain, Eddie learns that he needs to sacrifice to gain something
After knowing the story of his father forgiving Mickey, he finally forgived his father
By the final conversation with marguerite, he learned that love doesn't end, even after death.
Tala forgiven him at the end, like Eddie forgiven others, Eddie went to true heaven
Marguerite
In the heaven, she takes Eddie full of wedding and teaches him about a true love never dies.
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Eddie’s lover, important source of Eddie's happiness.
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She died because of the brain cancer,from this period Eddie's life started to plunge
Blue man
He teaches Eddie that all lives are connected, even with strangers.
When he was a small child, his parents forced him to work in a sweatshop because of economic desperation.
He was then given silver nitrate for his nerves, which turned his skin the color blue.
Shunned by society, he was invited to join a traveling circus and after year, he permanently performanced in Ruby pier
. He died from a heart attack, caused by the shock from a young Eddie running into the street after a lost ball on his birthday
Ruby
She is graceful, competent, and smart. She is one of the person who Eddie met in the heaven. And her husband make Ruby Pier for her
In heaven, Ruby tells Eddie that his father died to save Mickey and teaches him the lesson of forgiveness..
She was a young waitress at a diner by the ocean, where she became engaged to the rich Emile.
After a fire destroyed the park, Ruby and his husband lost lots of moey and this led a difficult life for Ruby and Emile
Ruby’s husband was later hospitalized in the same room as Eddie’s dying father,and he allows Ruby to witness Eddie’s father’s dying words of regret
Tala
Eddie’s fifth person in heaven, a little Filipino girl who is trusting and wising
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During the flame, Eddie saw some shadow that looks like a person, but his unit forced him to go out
After the war, Eddie always try to convice himself that the shadow was not a person
Tala then teaches Eddie that he was supposed to be at Ruby Pier, keeping children safe to redeem himself for killing Tala
Noel
Eddie’s friend during his thirties, Noel runs a laundry business
Noel is obsessed with the racetrack, and frequently influences Eddie to indulge with him in their shared gambling habit. And one of the day when they are doing gambling, Marguerite got car accident.
Captain
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Captain is intelligent and sensible, and does everything what he can to keep his unit alive during the war
While escaping captivity, the Captain shoots Eddie in the leg because he believes it is the only way he can get Eddie to escape
To clear the pathway that his units to go, he was killed by a landmine.
In heaven, the Captain teaches Eddie that sacrifice isn’t the same as loss, but rather that it connects the people and gives some meaning of the lfie
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Eddie's Mother
Kind and devoted mother, but couldn't protect the children from father's violation
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Mickey Shea
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he tried to rape Eddie's mother, but caught by Eddie's father
While he was running away, he fell into the sea, and almost drowned, but he was saved by Eddie's father.
Soon, he dies due to Pneumonia
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