Before We Go Extinct By Karen Rivers

Finny breaking his leg caused him to change. In the beginning of the book, Fin always wanted to be active and even created a new game called blitzball, but he did not care about his academics. “In addition to my own work, I was dividing my time between tutoring Finny in studies and being tutored by him in sports.” (P. 63) Before the accident, Finny didn’t worry about studying and school, he just wanted to play sports, and get his best friend to play sports, so the boys tutored each other. After the accident, Finny became someone who tried to hide the truth with excuses to make himself feel better. “I’ll hate it everywhere if I’m not in this war! Why do you think I kept saying there wasn’t any war all winter?” (P. 190) Fin said the war wasn’t

To describe Finny, from a Separate Peace, in one word, I would say he’s bewildered. He’s confused and is trying to find ways to block out maliciousness in the world. Finny is ignoring reality to have fun and stay away from everything in the real world. To stay away from reality, Finny goes to places where he can relax and one of those places was the beach. When he went to the beach with Gene, he was very calm and was escaping from the war. On page 47, Gene describes how Finny… “enjoyed himself hugely, he laughed outloud at passing seagulls.” This quote from the book describes how, when Finny was at the beach, he didn’t have a care in the world. He did things that he normally wouldn’t do at Devon or around his other friends. This explains how

When Finn woke up from his dream he contacted his friend from school, Dillard Cole, and told him about the Disney problem. But his friend did not believe him. After school with his friend Amanda he went to the Magic Kingdom as a DHI, and met up with his other friends, Charlene a girl with sandy blond hair and blue eyes, Willa, a little geeky but smart, brown hair and blue eyes, Maybeck, an African-American kid, and Philby, with an Australian or British accent.

Because of Gene’s sense of judgement, built up an alternate reality of a rivalry between him and his best friend, Finny.

Initially in the novel Finny can b vainglorious or at other times he can be cryptic or surprise us and be humble. In fact in the novel Finny exhilarates and makes us laugh till the cessation. He had a major part in the novel in making it delectable to read. Finny by making others around him feel good he avails them find A Separate Tranquility. at the cessation of the novel a quote that explicates Finny is 'I did not cry then or ever about Finny. I did not even when I stood watching him being lowered into his family's strait-laced burial ground outside of Boston. I could not escape the feeling that this was my own funeral, and you do not cry in that case.' The reader will take away from Finny is that albeit he is very strong and athletic he can withal be humble, kind, and

As Finny is more easygoing, he gets away with much more than Gene. When the boys arrive late to dinner, Finny talks their way out of it; his persuasive cleverness has a strong impact on others. Gene says, “I

Living Like Weasels Close Reading In her documentary type story, Annie Dillard describes and reflects on her encounter with a weasel living in the wild and presents her interpretation of that encounter. She begins the essay by giving the readers an introduction into how a weasel is characterized as wild. For example she states, the weasel “stalks rabbits, mice, muskrats, and birds, killing more bodies than he can eat warm, and often dragging the carcasses home.”

Finny did a lot of risky things, that most people would not be able to pull off, but somehow he always manages to slip away with no punishment. Unknowingly, Finny went to a party, the headmaster was also attending it. As usual, Finny was out of dress code, wearing a neon shirt and their school tie as a belt. Somehow he talked himself out of trouble. Gene says “I was beginning to see that Phineas could get away with anything. I couldn’t help envying him that a little (Knowles 9).” Finny continued testing his luck, with skipping chapel and classes, and test, and meetings. In the article "A Separate Peace: The Fall from Innocence" James Ellis writes “Incapable of the spiritual purity of Phineas, Gene finds himself jealous of Finny's ability to flout Devon rules.” All of this grew on Gene and started to make him very jealous of something he did not have. Trying the ultimate dare, Finny decided to go to the beach, Gene says “The beach was hours away by bicycle, forbidden, completely out of all bounds. Going there risked expulsion (Knowles 20).” Finny went through with his plan and spent a night at the beach, and received no punishments or disciplinary actions. As Gene was struggling with his identity, he saw that Finny could do things he could not. All those things made Gene jealous and gave him something to focus on, other than solving his identity

The setting of the Devon school brought back a lot of memories to the character finny. Finny is a very outstanding person. He is extremely athletic the most athletic out of all his friends. Finny’s best friend Gene is extremely smart not so much of an athlete. Finny is a very friendly person he always thinks the best of people.

I didn’t sleep much that night. My mind had too many thoughts. Phineas had every right to hate me and never speak to me again, or at least be angry with me. Yet he chose to believe that it was just a blind impulse on the tree that day. I couldn’t comprehend why that is. Was it a blind impulse? I lay there thinking that in no way did I deserve to be Finny’s friend. I somehow understood that our identities were beginning to merge, and we had some connection stronger than friendship. I think that it was this that kept us together, not what I did or what he believed I did, the unbreakable connection between

Dally lived a hard life from the get go, he was from the "Rough side of New York." Dallas' life required great amounts of energy to sustain because there was no tranquility of his emotions at anytime other than when he slept. Constantly the reader and Ponyboy found Dally in an aggregated mood of on fire with anger. With the passing of Johnny the only thing of a normality in Dally's rocked and shaken world Dallas had lost his footing no longer on the ground, nothing steady to hang onto his world spun further down into complete turmoil and despair with every fleeting second. Dally saw only one way out, a permanent solution for a temporary problem, so Dally pulled the unloaded pistol out on the cops and fatally shot numerous times to the chest. "When I saw his face on his motionless body before it hit the ground I saw a face of grim victory." But Johnny's death affected everyone to some extent; Ponyboy, his closest friend suffered a severe mental breakdown and as for the rest like Soda it really got them thinking too. Johnny died young and he had seen it all, all the wrong things. It could have been any one of them but it was innocent Johnny a Greaser, who defied the stereotypes and died for a noble cause.

The TED talk, “Seeds of Our Ancestors, Seeds of Life,” by Winona LaDuke was really sad. Thinking about how many types of foods of gone extinct, and that there are companies that keep trying to patent and genetic engineer our food. Food is more than something we just buy, it keeps us living, yet we don’t seem to put much thought into it anymore. The statement about only about 30 different varieties of food giving us our calories makes sense, but I can see why it’s so sad. It’s depressing that species of food are going extinct, we think about animals going extinct, but we don’t often think about our food. I’m curious about all of the types of food that I will never be able to try because they have gone extinct.

Experiencing Finny’s death was an odd experience. Throughout my time at Devon, Phineas had become a major part of me; a part of me died the day that he passed away. His funeral was an odd sensation. It was unnatural in the way that part of me was gone that day, too. Finny helped to lighten everybody’s spirits at Devon and took our minds off of the war that was at hand. He was care-free and had no enemies, but very few were able to follow his example. Unlike Phineas, I created foolish rivalries at Devon which had awful

The poem “Mothers and Daughters” is written by Pat Mora. Pat Mora is a contemporary award winning writer, who writes for children, youngsters and adults. She was born in El Paso, TX in the year 1942. She attains a title of a Hispanic writer; however, the most of her poems are in English. In her literary work, one can observe the different aspects of the immigrants’ lives such as language issues, family relationships, immigrants’ experiences and cultural differences (1187).

Even though both Finny and Mr.Keating’s life ended undesirably, they were able to complete their dreams and enjoy their lives most because they were capable of maintaining freedom of their thoughts and expressing it throughout the story. Mr.Keating, whose target was to teach future generations an independent mind, accomplished his dreams through freedom to expressed his ideas neglecting restrictions. While Finny, whose life depended on athletics, but was heartbroken after the injury, did not let that be the ending, he created on behalf of himself, another dream for his friend, Gene, to enter the Olympics. Furthermore, before his tragic death, Finny was Mr.Sunshine to everybody, this implicates that Finny had lived his lives better than other characters in the novel as he was able to express himself in a manner that others can’t by being an optimistic and morale person. Also, compared to other characters in the tales, Mr.Keating and Finny successfully fulfilled what they want in life, and enjoyed their life to the best by expressing themselves through freedom of an