Eclipse

The lie paul’s mom made up is, that Paul stared at a solar eclipse for an hour. However, Paul finds that story fishy and throughout the book, he tries to find the answer to the mystery of his eyesight (Bloor 34). But to no avail, until Erik said: “Shut up, Castor!” (Bloor 262). Paul then realized the terrible truth…

In the beginning he sees himself as a freak. “ And Eclipse Boy, studied by the greatest doctors in Europe, but still a mystery to this day.” (Pg 77) He says these things about himself and he mostly believes them. Even when he was younger, his brother would even call him “Eclipse Boy”. He doesn't think of himself as anything more than “Paul Fisher, the boy who stared at a solar eclipse too long. In the end however, his personality changes drastically. He thinks of himself…

of mathematical models of the universe (V. Gaffney, 2013). For example, one of the previous explanations of a lunar eclipses was that the dragon was eating up the moon. But the Greeks recognized that it was the earth’s shadow cast on the moon when both were aligned with the sun. By noting the intervals, they were able to predict the time of eclipses and tell whether the Eclipses would be full or partial. The Greeks also taught explanations for the movement of the planets. Such achievements…

hina is a large country in Asia. Ancient china had its own achievements, philosophy, and religion. All of this was around the bronze age. China had its own political system. China was very organized during the bronze age. During the Stone Age, people in China lived in small villages and had big men in charge, and then chieftains. But by the time of the Shang Dynasty, about 1800 BC, China was united into an empire and there was an emperor or empress who ruled over many smaller kings. ( quartr.us…

theories of the construction of Stonehenge. Tiner gives an example of how they found tools when they dug around Stonehedge. The uses of Stonehedge are very broad, I believe the reason why Stonehedge was built was to compute the dates of Solar and lunar eclipses. Overall, I thought both authors did an excellent job at describing the mysteries of Stonehedge. They gave detail on the reasons behind it. While Stonehedge is still a mystery one thing that we fully understand is Stonehedge is a…

It was because of those generous, hospitable, and god fearing characters that Odysseus was able to survive throughout his rough journey on the wrathful sea. In her writing “What Pains are Fated to Fill Your Cup: The Role of Food, Drink, and Xenia in the Homeric Epics”, Amanda Urban states, “ This crucial moral principle was often exercised through the sharing of feasts, wine, and gifts between guests and their hosts. It is unsurprising then that The Odyssey is rich with examples: Odysseus, the…

Over five hundred years ago, cleric Diego de Landa approached an abandoned society lost in the jungles of Central America. His findings led him to make assumptions of these people he marked as savages. De Landa denounced these people as “idolatry, divorce, sacrificial, and slave traders” (qtd. in Gibson 13). Nearly three centuries after de Landa’s account, the U.S explorer John Lloyd Stephens noted his discovery of an altar among the ruins of a Central American city called Copán, with the…

how he went blind. Paul confronts his parents about it, angrily, “I yanked off my Coke-bottle glasses and shook them at him in rage. ‘There are questions that need to be answered about these! Am I such a stupid idiot fool that I stared at a solar eclipse for an hour and blinded myself? Is that who I am? Am I an idiot?” Erik sprayed spray paint in his eyes, and his parents knew about it. But they didn’t tell him because they didn’t want to ruin the relationship between them. If one is there at…

He has affected Paul in many ways. Also Paul's characteristics showed many signs of Erik affecting his life. However, there are many ways Erik affected Paul but here's a big one. “As scared as I was of Erik he held an important part of the eclipse story if he died the that part of the story would die with him.” (Pg 55)This shows how Erik wouldn't tell Paul about why he was blind but only told him parts to why he is blind. Erik bullied Paul for being blind and teased him and that affected…

In the very beginning of the book, Erik makes Paul look like a fool by mentioning how Paul stared at an eclipse. “He was standing at the front of the school-bus line with his fifth-grade friends when one of them turned, made a gesture, and called up to me, ‘Hey, Eclipse Boy, how many fingers am I holding up?’” (Bloor 34). The reason Erik did this was to draw negative attention to Paul while simultaneously covering up what really happened…