What Happens to Finny as He Leaves the Room?
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A Divide Peace Chapter xi
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- When Gene gets back to campus, he's desperate to meet Finny – a boy whose just known conflict is that of sports, not war. Of course, he finds his roommate in the center of a snowball fight, playing.
- He stands around and watches for a bit. When he turns to leave, Finny hits him on the back of the caput with a snowball. He observes (Once more) Finny'due south walk, now that he's managing with a smaller cast. Any other person would accept walked normally with such a minor impediment, but Finny, who used to walk with such a flow of energy, appears crippled by it.
- When Finny inquires most Leper, Gene avoids talking most that whole psycho bit of his personality.
- The snowball fight, which once had two distinct teams, chop-chop begins to break downwardly as everyone begins rain everyone else. The fight ends when they all plow on Phineas.
- Oh, sure, choice on the crippled guy.
- Later, Gene warns Phineas about taking it like shooting fish in a barrel (east.g., non getting into snowball fights) lest he intermission his leg again.
- Finny says not to worry; he has a feeling that when a bone grows back together, it's stronger than information technology was to brainstorm with.
- Oh, the symbolism.
- That nighttime in the dorm, Brinker comes across the hall to visit, and nosotros're all treated to a lengthy description of Finny and Gene's room. Finny has taped up on the wall newspaper pictures of Roosevelt and Churchill, which he explains shows them contriving the war. Gene has put up generally deceptive pictures virtually his home. He'due south from the Due south, sure, but he'due south put upward pictures of plantation mansions. He even used to fake an accent, he said, though he learned in his years at Devon that he didn't demand a false identity.
- Anyway, Brinker wants to know about Leper. Factor is tired of lying and admits that the boy is AWOL.
- Both Finny and Brinker are shocked. Brinker ventures that Leper must have gone mad, and Factor confirms.
- Brinker so makes a rather callous comment nigh Finny being "out of" the war (as in, he can never partake in the war because of his leg). Cistron tries to negate the comment with Finny's statement that in that location is no war, but Finny uncomplicated replies, ironically, "Certain. There isn't any war." And Gene knows that all his fantasies – including that whole Olympics thing – are done.
- Meanwhile everything at Devon is being taken over by the state of war. News of training programs filter downward to the campus, and the students spend more and more time thinking about their military futures.
- Brinker, for one, isn't having whatever of it. He'due south finding those uninterested in fighting and filling his days with activities that have nothing to exercise with the war.
- Gene, on the other mitt, doesn't practise anything.
- One day, Brinker takes Gene bated and gives him a talking to. He argues that the simply reason Factor hasn't enlisted is that he'southward sticking effectually for Finny's sake, considering he pities him.
- Factor tries to argue, but Brinker brings up that one-time "joke" about Gene's having acquired Finny'south blow.
- This makes Factor extremely nervous.
- As Cistron helps Phineas with his Latin homework one night, the bailiwick comes around to Finny's version of reality – in which there is no Caesar and, too, no war.
- Only Finny is done with fantasy. He concedes that there is a war, since Leper has gone mad. ("If a war can drive somebody crazy, then information technology's real all right.") And then he admits that he saw Leper, on campus, and that's when he knew he was really basics.
- This concerns Cistron, since, as you may remember, Leper believes that Cistron caused Finny's accident.
- That night, at 10:00 pm, Brinker Hadley and three of his buddies come to Finny and Gene's room, to accept them out. As yous might have guessed, this is largely illegal (fifty-fifty the seniors have to be back inside by 10, equally we saw earlier). Merely since Brinker used to be the head of every club in existence, he'due south got a set of keys to almost buildings on campus.
- The group steers Gene and Finny into the Assembly Room at the top of the First Building. Inside are about 10 senior boys, so Gene figures this is some sort of senior prank.
- Oh, if only.
- Once they walk inside, Brinker starts making a public exhibition of Finny's limp, which Gene finds to exist not so tactful.
- Then Brinker has them all bow their heads in prayer, which gives the occasion such a solemn mood that Gene tin can no longer declare it a joke and leave.
- Later, Brinker asks Phineas to relate, in his own words, what happened upwardly there in the tree.
- Gene cuts in, and Brinker shuts him down: "[Nosotros're] investigating Finny's accident!" he yells.
- Finny doesn't like the scenario either. In his mind, there'south cipher to clear up. But Brinker is adamant, so Finny begins his story. At first he's all, "I just fell," but when Brinker presses him on this consequence, Finny says something interesting. "I've had a feeling that the tree did it past itself. […] Almost as though the tree shook me out by itself" (11.136).
- It'south clear that the whole event is fuzzy in Finny's mind. When Brinker presses for more details, he can't even remember whether or non he was alone in the tree at the time. Start he thinks Cistron was downwards at the bottom, then he thinks Cistron was in the tree with him.
- The boys realize that this is getting them nowhere. Someone shouts out that Leper was there at the time, and that he'due south on campus at present. Brinker sends i of the boys to bring him in as a witness.
- Gene keeps quiet, while silently reassuring himself that Leper is crazy, the boys will encounter every bit much, as no ane volition take him seriously.
- Leper enters the Assembly room. As he begins to give his testimonial, he speaks a bit like, well, a crazy person. When he describes the two boys up in the tree, he says that they moved "like an engine."
- Fortunately, he explains. An engine has two pistons; one moves, then the other moves.
- Brinker wants to know which boy moved first – the 1 who vicious, or the other male child.
- But Leper refuses to answer. He doesn't want to "implicate" himself, he says. Then he gets mad at Brinker, calling him a "bastard" and telling him to play the fool now.
- Before things can get ugly, Phineas stands up. "I don't care," he says, and heads for the doors. When Brinker yells that they have to collect the facts, Phineas turns back with tears in his eyes and curses at him before exiting.
- Then, from inside the Assembly Hall, the boys hear the audio of Phineas exiting, reaching the marble staircase, slipping, and tumbling down them.
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