Chapter 13

This is Gene writing for Finny's last journal. I was June and all these military personal are rolling into the far common. Brinker's dad is here and he  turns out to be one of those robust old men who Finny always thought was orchestrating a fictional war to keep the country in check. He's all about the military, and lectures for a bit on the value of fighting for one's country. I rationalize the old man's behavior, and  Brinker gets heated. Men like him are responsible for the war,he says,  and yet boys like Leper and Brinker himself are going to have to fight it for them.This makes everything clear for me now, I finally understand that this is why Brinker suffered such disillusionment during the Winter Session and why he turned from leader to rebel so quickly. It was the same thing Finny felt when he said the war was fake. I don't agree with Finny or Brinker. War wasn't the fault of the older generation – war is the result of something ignorant in the human heart.

 Picture 1 : This picture is relevant because this is the last place Gene goes before the novel ends to think about the war and Finny.

Picture 2 : This picture is relevant because in the beginning of the chapter all these army jeeps are coming into the far commons.
















""I had never talked about Phineas and neither did anyone else; he was, however present in every moment of everyday since Dr. Stanpole had told me."


"Phineas created an atmosphere in which i continue to live, a way of sizing up the world with erratic and entirely personal reservation, letting its rock like facts sift through and be accepted only a little at a time only as much as he could assimilate without sense of chaos or loss."

Chapter 12

 I'm carried away from the stairs. It felt weird. I had never took assistance from anyone except for for Gene, probably because he thought of Gene as an extension of his own being. I'm taken away to the infirmary and when I'm alone Gene comes into to visit me. I don't welcome him in and i basically just tell him "You want to break something else in me! Is that why you're here?" He tries to apologize to me but I'm having none of it.  Gene comes back later though and all i can do is look at him and wish, aloud, that there wasn't any war. I could deal with all this, if only there wasn't a war on. I tell him says that I've been writing letters everywhere, trying to figure out if he can be in the war with his busted leg. I'll hate it everywhere if  I can't, knowing that I'm missing out. Yet Gene thinks i wold be useless in the war because i don't understand fighting. Then Gene leaves me while i wait for my surgery. 

Picture 1 : This is relevant because it shows a doctor with its thumb down telling us thats there bad news and in this chapter Dr. Stanpole has bad news for Gene and tells him that Finny has died


Picture 2 : This picture is related to this chapter because after Finny dies in the infirmary, they have funeral for him.







"This was becoming the new background of Finny's life, this is purely medical element from which bodily health was absent."

"The toen of his voice fell dead center, without a trace of friendliness  or unfriendliness, not interested and not bored, not energetic and not languid."

Chapter 11

I see Gene come back but I'm in the middle of a snowball fight so I'm not really in the mood to see where he has been all this time. He stands around and watches for a bit. When he turns to leave, I hit him on the back of the head with a snowball. The snowball fight, which once had two distinct teams, quickly begins to break down as everyone begins pelting everyone else. The fight ends when they all turn on me. Oh, sure, pick on the crippled guy.  That night, at 10:00 pm, Brinker Hadley and three of his buddies come to Gene and I's  room, to take us out. As you might have guessed, this is largely illegal (even the seniors have to be back inside by ten, as we saw earlier). But since Brinker used to be the head of every club in existence, he's got a set of keys to most buildings on campus. Great for us. The group steers Gene and I into the Assembly Room at the top of the First Building. Inside are about ten senior boys, so Gene figures this is some sort of senior prank. But its not. They want to investigate my accident but i tell them everything that happened. I just fell! I eventually head out and i get to the marble stairs and notice that i slip. But then everything goes black.

Picture 1 : This picture is relevant to this chapter because at the beginning, Finny and a group of friends have a snowball fight.
















Picture 2 : This picture is relevant to this chapter because at the very end, Finny falls down the stairs.




"I wanted to see Phineas and only Phineas. With him there was no conflict except between athletes, some thing Greek inspired and Olympian in which victory would go to whoever was the strongest body and heart."


"This gathering had obviously been Finny's work. Who else could have inveigled twenty people to the farthest extremity  of the school to throw snowballs each other?"

Chapter 10

Gene has suddenly left for somewhere and he seemed as though he were in a rush. I don't know where he was going but it must be a pretty big secret if he won’t even tell me. This isn't really like Gene to just run off like this, I mean unless it were for some very big matter. This is just still so unlike Gene I just don’t even know what to do. Who even knows when he’ll be back? Could be in the next hour or tomorrow or who knows how long! Ugh well whatever, I know Gene I'm sure he's safe and knows what he's doing wherever he went. He still better come back soon though because we still having training for the Olympics to do. And if he misses one training session with me I'm going to be very aggravated. Miss one training session and he'll regret it by the time he's done! And i practically rely on Gene for everything else i do. He's with me practically everywhere i go like a shadow.

Picture 1 : This picture is relevant to this chapter because The location that Leper tells Gene to go to is "Christmas Location"

Picture 2 : This picture is relevant to this chapter because Leper has begun to go crazy from being the war.

Chapter 9

Leper is officially gone. One day, a recruiter  from the ski troops showed a video of, well, ski troops, all in uniform, gracefully gliding down a mountain. Leper was immediately taken in. He had no idea that you could do something like ski in the military. So he signs up and is gone a week later. Since he was almost eighteen, he enlisted just in time to choose his service instead of risking getting drafted and being assigned one. Were all going to miss him. We would've wanted Brinker to be the first to go. Now whenever anyone talks about war it has to be about Leper. Everything they read about, everything on the news, all directly involves Leper. I remain the only one outside of the joke.I don't want to play along and imagine Leper in various epic scenarios. Not really my kind of style thing to do.So I draw Gene away from that crowd,  away from the Butt Room all together, and i take him to while  to train for the Olympics of 1944. Definitely more productive than making up epic scenarios about our own friend in the war.

 Picture 1 : This picture i relevant to this chapter because Leper has finally enlisted in the army and gets drafted










Picture 2 : This picture is relevant to this chapter because the group of boys go into the butt room and talk about Leper in various war scenarios.














"Only Phineas failed to see what was so depressing. Just as there was no war in his philosophy, there was also no dreary weather"
"And because it was Finny's idea ,it happened as he had said, although not as easily as some of his earlier inspirations."

Chapter 8

I get back to Devon and the first person i see when the door is opened to my dorm is but who of course, Gene! Right as i see him of course i start by making fun of his clothes, which are old and, at this point, also smelly (since he's been working all day shoveling clear the railroad tracks which he tells me later). Gene tell me that there are no maids this year which neither him nor am i please about I (because of the war, Devon is cutting back). Now we just have to do all there work ourselves. Great. I decide that Gene and I ought to skip class. Since it's my first day back, I feel that I need to walk around and see the place. I wants to go to the gym. This is easier said than done, since the gym is all the way across campus and perilous ice covers the ground on the way. By the time they get there, I'm sweating and tired. I ask Gene about what sports he is doing as we are in the gym and he explains that he has done none. I am outraged at this! Although I shouldn't known he might take his academics over sports.

Picture 1 : This picture relates to this chapter because Finny want Gene to train for the Olympics.




Picture 2 : This picture is relevant to this chapter because when Finny gets back to Devon he is on crutches from his broken leg and it is hard for him to get around.








" In these past months Phineas and I had grown apart on this; I felt certain disproval of him for grumbling about a lost luxury, with a war on." 


" He was always speaking when his thoughts were somewhere else, asking rhetorical questions and echoing other people's words."

chapter 7

Its finally the day i get to go back to Devon. I'm so excited right now! I cant wait to see all my friends and especially Gene. I wonder how he's doing? Hopefully very well.  Hopefully he still hasn't given away my spot in the dorm or else I'm going to to have to do something about that. Hopefully there not to worried about me either. Before i know it I'm going to be back on me feet and doing everything i used to! Gene also better be following up on what i told him about sports. If i'm not going to be able to do them then he most definitely is! I really miss sports though. It was practically my life. I don't know what i would do without them. Well I'm just arriving to Devon. I wonder what Genes reaction will be once he see's me.

Picture 1 : This picture relates to this chapter because the boys go and dig out the train tracks to help the with the war effort.

Picture 2 : This picture is relevant because Gene gives Leper a pair of skis to observe nature and go on the hunt for a beaver dam that used to sit somewhere up the Devon river.

"Everything that had happened throughout the day faded like that first false snowfall of the winter. Phineas was back." 

" There was always something deadly lurking in anything i loved. And if it wasnt there, as for example with Phineas, then i put it there myself."