Instituto Salesiano Valdivia

rea Acadmica
Departamento de Ingls

Plot Summary for The Bucket List

Corporate billionaire Edward Cole and working class mechanic Carter Chambers
have nothing in common except for their terminal illnesses. While sharing a hospital
room together, they decide to leave it and do all the things they have ever wanted to do
before they: "kick the bucket" (a positive list, which makes life better). They both start to
make changes in life, where they both learn from each other.
In the process, both of them heal each other, become unlikely friends. They
ultimately find the joy in life, and they also
learn that they have an unrealized desire to
discover what kind of men they really are.

The quiet mechanic Carter Chambers

is a man with a great general culture; has been
married for forty-five years with his beloved
wife Virginia and has two sons - one lawyer
the other engineer - and a violinist daughter.
The caustic and bitter billionaire
Edward Cole owns many hospitals, has many divorces and one missing daughter.
Following the policy of Edward, his hospital makes no exception giving a private room to
him and he shares the same room as blue-collar mechanic Carter.
Along the days, they become close to each other and when Edward finds in the
garbage the bucket list that Carter had prepared, listing all he wanted to do before dying,
he includes his own items and invites Carter to a journey of friendship, discoveries and
redemption.
But one can't accomplish such superior objectives from the confines of a hospital
bed; so now, in order to live their lives to the absolute fullest, Edward and Carter will
have to make a break for it. With a checklist that includes playing the poker tables in
Monte Carlo, consuming copious amounts of caviar, racing the fastest machines on four
wheels, and much more, these two terminally ill men will do their best to fit a lifetime of
experience into their last remaining days while forging an unlikely, but truly remarkable,
friendship.

What do you think is the meaning of kick the bucket?

Instituto Salesiano Valdivia

rea Acadmica
Departamento de Ingls

After watching the movie

Answer the following questions:
1. Whos the person who starts telling the story?
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2. Why Edward can not have his own room at the hospital?
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3. Who is Thomas?
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4. What is Thomas real name?
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5. Why does Edward call him Thomas?
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6. How many times did Edward get married?
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7. About Carter, What did he want to become when he was young?
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8. Was he able to fulfill such desire?
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9. If not, why not?
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10. What is Carters wife name?
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11. What is Carters wife profession?
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12. How long has Carter been married?
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13. How many children does Carter have?
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14. How many children does Edward have?
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15. Did Carter get a tattoo?

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16. Why Edwards daughter wouldnt talk to him?
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17. When did Carter decide to go back home?

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18. How did Carter die?
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19. How did Carter want to be buried?
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20. Where were they buried?
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21. What is the name of the coffee Edward liked so much?
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22. How is it made?
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23. Whats the meaning of kick the bucket?
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Caustic

describes a remark or way of speaking that is hurtful, critical or intentionally

unkind

Both

(referring to) two people or things together

Desire (n)

a strong feeling that you want something

Beloved (adj)

loved very much

Accomplish

to finish something successfully or to achieve something

Bitter

describes a person who is angry and unhappy because they cannot forget bad
things which happened in the past

Forge

to make or produce, especially with some difficulty

Friendship

when two people are friends

Blue-collar

describes people who do work needing strength or physical skill rather than
office work

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Caustic

describes a remark or way of speaking that is hurtful, critical or intentionally

unkind

Both

(referring to) two people or things together

Desire (n)

a strong feeling that you want something

Beloved (adj)

loved very much

Accomplish

to finish something successfully or to achieve something

Bitter

describes a person who is angry and unhappy because they cannot forget bad
things which happened in the past

Forge

to make or produce, especially with some difficulty

Friendship

when two people are friends

Blue-collar

describes people who do work needing strength or physical skill rather than
office work

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Caustic

describes a remark or way of speaking that is hurtful, critical or intentionally

unkind

Both

(referring to) two people or things together

Desire (n)

a strong feeling that you want something

Beloved (adj)

loved very much

Accomplish

to finish something successfully or to achieve something

Bitter

describes a person who is angry and unhappy because they cannot forget bad
things which happened in the past

Forge

to make or produce, especially with some difficulty

Friendship

when two people are friends

Blue-collar

describes people who do work needing strength or physical skill rather than
office work

To kick the bucket is an English idiom that is defined as "to die" in the Dictionary of the
Vulgar Tongue (1785). It is considered a euphemistic, informal, or slang term. It is used
as a verb. Its origin remains unclear, though there have been several theories.
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