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Benjamin Button's Birth (Age 70)
A crusty old man: It's amazing that Benjamin is born with all of his faculties and, seemingly, with life experience he hasn't even accuired yet. And he doesn't seem to be very happy about the conditions into which he has been born: "This is a fine place to keep a youngster of quiet tastes. With all this yelling and howling, I haven't been able to get a wink of sleep" (63). -
Benjamin Button (Age 68)
There can be no doubt, though, that the rattle bored him, and that he found other and more soothing amusements when he was left alone. For instance, Mr. Button discovered one day that during the proceeding week he had smoked more cigars than ever before. (67) -
Benjamin Button (Age 65)
When he was five he was sent to kindergarten . . .(68 -
Benjamin Button (Age 58)
Finally a compromise was reached. Benjamin was to continue to dye his hair. He was to make a better attempt to play with the boys of his own age. He was not to wear his spectacles or carry a canein the street. In return for these concessions he was allowed his first suit of long trousers . . . (68) -
Benjamin Button Age 52
"At eighteen he stood erect as a man of fifty." (69) -
Benjamin Button (Age 50)
Suffice to record that they were years of normal ungrowth.(70) -
Benjamin gets married
fifty is a mellow age, I love fifty. (73) -
Period: to
The family fortune was doubled
The family fortune was doubled...(74) -
Benjamin Goes to war
"Ill soon darn well show you whose little boy I am" retorted benjamin ina ferocious tone. (81) -
Grandfather
In 1920 roscoe buttons first child was born . . .new baby's own grandfather (81). -
Benjamins Death
Thenit was all dark, and his white crib and dim faces that moved abovehim, and the warm sweet aroma of milk, faded out all together from his mind (83).