Chapter 14 Summary

"Epilogue." Three days after the accident, the park reopens. Eddie's assistant is promoted to Eddie's job. He packs Eddie's things away in a trunk to be stored with other Ruby Pier memorabilia. Readers learn here that the young man whose key cut the cable was the great-grandson of Ruby, for whom the park was named.

People still come to Ruby Pier and wait in lines. Amy or Annie will grow old and die and will meet an old man in a place called the Stardust Band Shell to show her that each person affects the other and that the other affects the next. "The world is full of stories, but the stories are all one." (p. 196, l. 24)

Chapter 14 Analysis

This chapter provides a fitting ending to this story where readers have bobbed back and forth between what is happening at Ruby Pier and...