This is the picture of where Finny diedSunday, March 23, 2008
Another broken leg
I suffered a broken leg again. I was rushed into the imfirmory. Dr. Stanpole and the wrestling coach helped me. After every thing was done Gene opened the window and started to talk to me. I was very mad. "You want to break something else in me! Is that why your here" (176)? I was so mad with him. I fell out of my bed and he did not even come into my room to help me back in my bed. Gene came back the next mourning and gave me a suitcase full of stuff that I needed. I told Gene that I wrote to alot of different military academies to try and get in but they all rejected me because of my leg. I told Gene that I always believed in the war but I said i did not because I could not be a part of it. " I was going to keep on saying that I do not believe in the war until two seconds after i got a letter from Ottowa or ..." (182). I really did belive in the war but I was really mad that I could not be apart of it, so I said that I did not blieve in it. I bursted into tears and said you did not mean to knock me out of the tree, it was an accident right? "Then that was it, it was just a blind impulse, I think I can believe that... "(183). Gene had to leave because Dr. Stanpole was going to set the bone in my leg in place again. So gene could come back into my room later that day.
My accident
Gene came home from Leper's house and I was in the middle of a snow ball fight and Gene decided to join in the snow ball fight also. Gene aked me if I was able to play in the snow ball fight and I told him I thought my bones were getting stronger. After the snow ball fight we went into our room and Brinker came in and Gene told Brinker that Leper escaped from the army because he is crazy. Brinker then says the two people in their class can not go to the war. Gene then said that there is no war. Gene read me something about Caesar. I do not believe in Caesar but i do believe in the war now because it made Leper go crazy. What ever makes some one crazy has to be real. "Sure. There isnt any war" (150). Finny now believes that there is no war. That night Brinker came into our room and took me and Gene into the assembly hall. He told us he gathered judges and an audience to decide what really happened about me accident. "Brinker and three coherts came into our room with much commotion at 10:05 p.m." (156). I told every body that I fell out of the tree and it was an accident. Then I remembered that Gene was with me and not on the ground next to the tree because we were going to do a double jump. Gene and I had to go find Leper and we brought him for his testomony. Leper wil not say anything because he does not want to discrimanate himself. I stood up and I ran out of the hall crying and I fell down the marble staircase. "I just dont care, never mind" (168)! No body probably had ever seen me cry before but I did not care i just did not want to talk about it.
Section Eight Discharge
Gene set out to go to Leper's town in Vermont. He told me everything that happened when he went there. He said he took a train and then a bus to get to Leper's house. He told me that he would not let himself think that Leper just deserted the army. "You dont "escape" from the army, so he must have escaped from something else" (131). He would never think that Leper would just leave the army so Gene started to think of other things Leper could have escaped from. When Gene arrived at Leper's house, Leper forced him into the dining room so no one would know that Gene was here. Gene told me that Leper said he did escape from the army. Leper said that he escaped because the army was going to give him a Section Eight Discharge for insanity. "they were going to give me a discharge, a Section Eight Discharge" (136). Leper did not want to get a Section Eight Discharge because that means he will probably not be able to get a job after the war, because no body would want to hire a crazy person. After that Gene and Leper got into a fight and Leper accused Gene of pushing me out of the tree on purpose. Leper's mom comes in and then stops the fight. Then they all have dinner together. After that Leper and Gene go for a walk and Leper tells Gene that is seeing strange hallucations at training camp. "the idea pf his face on a woman's body. That's what made me psycho..." (140). Leper would imagine very starnge images and that is why he got a Section Eight discharge. Gene told me eventually Leper told him so many gross and strange things that Leper images, Gene just ran away into the snowy fields. Who could blame him, Leper is really a messed up kid.
Monday, March 17, 2008
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