Chapter 3

Everything going quite swell at Devon. Pretty much everything is great except that i'm frustrated with Devon's summer athletics, which include such frivolities as badminton. To remedy the situation, I designs my own game which turns out to the the greatest game ever known to man! Its name....Blitzball. Blitzball is the perfect. which makes sense, since I made it up obviously. Basically, there's a ball. And you have to run, and when they have the ball they get tackled. Ball, tackling, running…yep, that's about it. Oh, and there are no teams. Just the way i like it. Obviously i turn out to be the best Blitzball player ever! I'm just naturally good at sports i guess. I also broke the school swim record for the 100 yard freestyle. Gene and I were just hanging out by the pool, and i just decides to try to  swim the  100 yard freestyle faster than the current record-holder, and have Gene time him, and I break the 53.0 second record by .7 seconds! Gene is excited; he wants to get the coach and have metry again. But I am having none of it. I doesn't want anyone to know about this, I just wanted to see if he could break the record.

Picture 1 : This picture is relevant to the novel because in the novel Finny Breaks the simming record for the 100 freestyle by .7 seconds.

 Picture 2 : This picture is relevant to the novel because of the new game that Finny devised, Blitzball.

"The odds were tremendously against the ball carrier, so that Phineas was driven to exceed himself practically every day when he carried the ball."

"Although he was rarely conscious of it, Phineas was always being watched, like the weather."