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The Curious Case of Benjamin Button Summary

The story follows Benjamin Button, who was born as an elderly man and ages in reverse. Daisy Fuller tells the story of Benjamin to her daughter. Benjamin was abandoned at birth and raised by Queenie. He meets and falls in love with Daisy. Benjamin ages younger over time, reversing his aging process. He has a daughter with Daisy but leaves to not burden them as he gets younger. Daisy cares for Benjamin as he gets very young and eventually dies as an infant, though chronologically he was 84 years old.

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The Curious Case of Benjamin Button Summary

The story follows Benjamin Button, who was born as an elderly man and ages in reverse. Daisy Fuller tells the story of Benjamin to her daughter. Benjamin was abandoned at birth and raised by Queenie. He meets and falls in love with Daisy. Benjamin ages younger over time, reversing his aging process. He has a daughter with Daisy but leaves to not burden them as he gets younger. Daisy cares for Benjamin as he gets very young and eventually dies as an infant, though chronologically he was 84 years old.

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The Curious Case of Benjamin Button Summary

The story started with an elderly woman named Daisy Fuller. She is in the hospital and
terminally ill. She’s telling a story to her daughter about a clockmaker who made a magnificent clock
right after the first world war. Which happens to be the start of the story of Benjamin Button. The
clockmaker announced to everyone that he made it this way so that the soldiers lost during the War,
including his son, could come home and live their lives which had been taken from them in battle. Daisy
then asks her daughter to read from a diary which belonged to a Benjamin Button.

A child was born the same year the clockmaker created a clock for a train station. The infant,
appeared as an old man and soon abandoned by his father on a doorstep right after her mother passed
away while giving birth to him. Queenie is the one who found the infant together with a man named Mr.
Weathers, who works on the same nursing home where the infant was abandoned. Queenie decided to
raise the infant and after some years the infant grows to a young man. At his youthful age he still
appears to be very old. He struggles with hearing and his eyesight as well. Eventually, Benjamin meets a
young girl named Daisy and they become very close.

Time has passed, Benjamin leaves Queenie and his home and joins as tugboat as part of the
crew. The captain believes that he is older than he truly is. Most of the time, he is mistakenly recognized
as an old man. But as time passes by, he turns younger and younger. By the time the Japanese bombs
the Pearl Harbor, Benjamin is still part of the Captain's crew and volunteers to join the Captain in salvage
work for the U.S. Navy. When out on orders the crew encounter a German submarine which surfaces,
and the Captain rams the underwater vessel with his tug boat causing both ships to sink. Benjamin
survives unlike most of the crew including the Captain.

Benjamin returns to his home in New Orleans and to Queenie. He also reunites with Daisy who
tries to seduce him but he didn’t do anything about it maybe because he is not interested. He rejected
Daisy which led daisy to leave. Finally, he was able to find his father name Thomas. He learns that his
Dad has a button factory which he leaves to Benjamin including all his money and estates. Years pass
and Benjamin goes to New York where Daisy works as a ballet dancer. But Daisy, already been with
another man which crushed him. Years later, they met again. Daisy is badly injured after being hit by a
car in Paris which also ends her dancing career. Daisy has to make Benjamin leave.

Later, Daisy goes back to New Orleans and begins a love affair with Benjamin, marries him, and
had daughter. But, Benjamin fears that his reverse-aging will not allow him to be a good father to his
daughter and he decides to leave her and Daisy. He leaves them with a bank book so that they will
always be taken care of financially. Ten years later Benjamin arrives back in Daisy's life, but she is
remarried and their daughter is much older. Daisy hides Benjamin's true identity from everyone and
admits that he made the right choice to leave. They have a final night of romance before Benjamin once
again leaves.

Their paths crossed each other again as Daisy is called by a social worker who has found a young
Benjamin displaying early signs of dementia Benjamin looks as young as 12 years old. Daisy's name was
in his diary and that is how they contacted her. Daisy cares for Benjamin until his death in 2003. He is 84
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years old, but the size of an infant baby. His death comes one year after the clock in the train station,
which had been running in reverse since 1918 was replaced. Daisy has told this story to her daughter
Caroline in order that she would finally know the true story of her father. Daisy dies just as Hurricane
Katrina hits New Orleans, and the film ends with the clockmaker's clock being seen in a storage room as
the flood waters begin to surge towards the clock which hasn't stopped ticking backwards through time.

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