9+the+swings


 * Chapter summar ﻿y **
 * Ed me e ts S uzane B oyde in the playground and M arv me e﻿﻿﻿﻿ ts his daughter**
 * Q uote : No one ' s ever spoken to my father like that**
 * Literarly features : This chapter is calm ans a little intense at sometimes by the way marv talks to E d.**
 * Breanna Meindl **
 * Ed's on his last card, Hearts, and Marv and Ed hav come back from Auburn and seeing Marv's old girlfriend amd his daughter. Ed goes back a week later to pick upSuzanne Boyd and Marv's daughter, Melinda Boyd. He takes them to a park near where Marv's working, then brings Marv to the playground. Melinda and Marv meet properly for the first time and Marv pushes her on the swing. Ed thinks Marv's 'giant glass tears' are beautiful. **
 * Ed - He's a professional, customers come first. He cares for Marv a lot but the relationship between him and Marv is different now because of whats happened. Ed's eyes are the colour of coffee brown but 'with milk' in the them. **
 * Marv - Loves his daughter and he crys. **
 * Suzanne Boyd - She has long hair like honey and coffee coloured eyes, shes skinny and still beautiful and she "really is a mother". She hates her father and herself for not fighting but she loves Melinda. **
 * Melinda Boyd - Shes Marvs daughter but she doesnt know him, she has the same hair as Suzie but has Marv's eyes. **
 * The message Ed is trying to give to Marv, is hope or chances, because Ed gives Marv the chance to meet his daughter. Marv and Suzanne still have feelings for each other and the hope for the becoming a family later on. The most important is joy, because Marv's happy now after finally meeting his daughter. **
 * "I think he was glad to still be treated the same - even though he and i would never be friends like we once were." **
 * "It hits me hard that Suzanne really is a mother." **
 * "They're waiting,' I tell him, but i don't think he hears. I sit on the bonnet of my cab and Marv walks hesitantly on." **
 * "Marv's giant-looking hand shakes that of his daughter's. I can see he wants to hold her, hug her, squeeze her, but he doesn't." **
 * "HIgher Marvin Harris! Higher please!" **
 * "Marv's smile, and the giant glass tears on his face are the two of the most beautiful things I've ever seen." **