Literay Luminary- The Five People You Meet In Heaven

Page 77 paragraph 4
"The front door opens and Eddie hears a voice that makes his heart jump, even now. He wonders if this is a weakness he shouldn't be taking off to war. "Hiya, Eddie," Marguerite says."
Eddie loves Marguerite so much that she makes him nervous and jumpy every time he sees her. this passage is showing his great love for her.
Page 78 paragraph 2
"She laughs. "You haven't opened it yet." "Listen." He moves closer. "Do you---" "Eddie!" someone yells from the other room. "Come on and blow out the candles."
Eddie was trying to think of the right words to say to Marguerite but he can't think of them then gets interupted.
What do you think he was trying to say to her?
Page 80
"A freed soldier is often furious. The days and nights he lost, the torture and humiliation he suffered--- it all demands a fierce revenge, a balancing of the accounts."
Eddie is acting in a very rash way, by thinking of burning down their camp. He is angry over the months he spent in captivity away from his family.
Page 81
"This was over," he said to himself. Over. All these weeks and months in the hands of those bastards, those subhuman guards with their bad teeth and bony faces and the dead hornets in their soup."
He is going over again and again the horrors that he had to endure in his head. This passage is displaying his extreme hatred towards his captors.
"Why do you say that?" Eddie asked. The captain blew smoke, then mentioned with the end if the cigarette toward Eddie's leg. "Because I was on the one," he said, "who shot you."
Eddie is finally getting some answers as to who injured him and what happened to his leg all of those years ago.