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."