Chapter 3 Summary

"The Arrival." Eddie wakes up in a teacup on one of the rides on Ruby Pier and finds that he can get out without his cane. He feels wonderful but alone and surprised to find that he is still at Ruby Pier. It is different, though. It is the Ruby Pier of his childhood, seventy-five years ago.

Eddie tries to talk but can't. He is fascinated that his body is young again. He runs around the park of the past because he can. He stops running in front of the freak house, which was shut down fifty years ago. He goes past all the peculiar human beings to see a man whose skin is blue. The man says, "Hello, Edward. I have been waiting for you." (p. 31, l. 10)

Chapter 3 Analysis

Readers see once again the weaving together of past with present as the...