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."