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."