Blitzball War Quotes

Finny is a manipulative person to others and makes them do what he wants no matter what task they have to do. He doesn’t seem to care too much as long as it works out for him. Finny never gets

Some of the blame for Finny's death is the schools fault. The school allowed Finny and Gene to basically do whatever they want during the summer. One day during the summer they just went to the beach ¨the beach was hours away by bicycle, forbidden, completely

Even though the accident is not his fault at all, he does not blame anyone but himself. Finny 's point of view on the whole situation is very grown up. Finny seems as though he will never grow up; his immaturity is shown through his habit of always coming up with strange things to do just for fun and his silly disbelieving ways of the war 's existence: “"But there 's isn 't going to any Olympics in '44. That 's only a couple of years away. The war-" "Leave your fantasy life out of this. We 're grooming you for the Olympics, pal, in 1944." (Knowles 117).” Inside he is suffering with the hurt and anger of being denied from the one thing that he wants to do the most: fight in the war.They have to face adulthood, and in order to do that, they have to become adults. This is an excellent example of how the war suddenly makes the boys grow up into men.

Education is not really one of Finny’s favorite things, he is more like the outgoing friend of the group. In the novel, “A Separate Peace”, Gene has a thought about Finny and his education. The quote says “If I was head of the class on Graduation Day and made a speech and won the Ne Plus Ultra Scholastic Achievement Citation, the we would have came out on top…”(Knowles, 52). If you think about it, Finny could be head of the class and graduate and win the prizes if he would put a little

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

Seabiscuit: An American Legend is a nonfiction book written by Laura Hillenbrand, published in 2001. This book is a biography of a Thoroughbred racehorse named Seabiscuit. Seabiscuit was a lazy, bandy-legged horse, that should not have one at all, on the other hand, he won 11 out of 15 races in the year 1937. He was also the year’s leading money winner.

Once Gene told Finny that he purposefully jumped in the tree to make Finny fall, Finny had to realize that the perennial friendship he believed he had with Gene, may have been built on lies. In the book, Finny’s first expression after being told that Gene caused his fall was actually a facial expression; “he looked older than I had ever seen him” (Knowles 99). This shows that as Finny heard his best friend admit to wanting to hurt him, the only person he had put his full trust in. Even though we don’t get to see what Finny is actually thinking, it is safe to infer Finny felt naive, and was completely shattered. Finny’s trust in Gene and throughout the rest of the novel, their friendship is never restores until the last few pages. Towards the end of the book, Finny completely loses his innocence when he finally admits that the war was actually occurring. In the book, once he sees Leper hiding and decides that he is crazy due to the war. Finny then says, “‘then I knew there was a real war on’” (Knowles 241). Throughout the novel, Finny stood very firmly on his belief that the war was fake -- that no one could hate each other that much -- but once he decided to admit that it was real, it was like his hope had gone

The reason this change in the novelhappens is because Finny has made it a point to prove to Gene that the war was not real. Thereader can infer from this behavior that Finny only wanted to keep Gene around him so he wouldnot be lonely. However as the story continues the reader figures out that this inference was truealong with another. This other hidden truth was that Finny was only pushing the war awaybecause he was not able to be apart of the war. After the reader finds this out the minds shit asthey find out that the last bit of innocence thatFinny had was that him and Gene could not be friends if he had enlisted.The reader notices that up until the point that Finny broke his leg that he was this perfectimage in people's eyes. However when he does break his leg and walks around the school incrutches those people have a different view on him. This change in perspective notifies thereader in that loss of innocence in Finny and at

Finny completely ignores the war going on all around him because since they won’t admit him in anywhere, he prefers to tell himself that it simply isn’t real instead of acknowledging his new handicap. Contrastingly, Gene remains aware of World War Two, and his point of view shows just how immature Phineas acts about it. When Finny complains about the absence of maids at the school, Gene sensibly replies by saying, “‘There’s a war on. It’s not much of a sacrifice, when you think of people starving and

Finny wouldn’t make a capable soldier due to his purity and innocence. In addition, Finny does not contain an ounce of malice inside of himself. He simply could not kill another human being. Throughout the course of the novel, all Finny ever wanted was fun, which for him was not found in winning or losing, but in playing. Finny’s main belief was “everyone always won at sports,” (page 27). However, war is based off winning and losing. You simply cannot have that mindset during a battle. Gene realizes, Finny lacks desire and comprehension, to do true evil. The closest Finny has ever gotten is in athletics, and even there he constantly switches teams to keep the “competition” going. ”You’d make a mess, a terrible mess, Finny, out of the war” (page 182). Even during a snowball fight Finny switches sides. According to Gene, Finny would not know what side to fight for.

Would you stop someone from achieving their dreams because you wanted to protect them? Sometimes you need to take risks and be brave, take a big leap into the world. In the novel The Wednesday Wars By: Gary D Schmidt, the Protagonist Holling Hoodhood Has an older sister, Heather. She is in high school and is going to be graduating soon and would like to go to college, although her father has denied her many times. I think that Mr. Hoodhood’s reasons for not wanting her to go to college are fairly reasonable. He does not want Heather to go to college because there are wars going on and people are dieing, I think Mr. Hoodhood just wants Heather to be safe, he also wants her to stay and work for him. I think that Mr.

Throughout the novel, Finny influences Gene’s identity in several ways. Firstly, when Gene calls Finny on the phone from Devon when Finny is hurt at home, Finny says, “Listen, pal, if I can’t play sports, you’re going to play them

The other characters thought that Finny had no fears, as if he was a free bird that soared over the beautiful oceans without a thought bad thought ever to enter his mind. In reality every human has fear, has hate, but some people are better at hiding these feelings. In the end, the person that was pure, and innocent died while the greedy lived. Ironically Finny’s death wouldn’t have happened in the first place if Gene didn’t shake the limb, one small thing always leads to a larger a greater thing. So clearly the thought of Finny was misleading, though he was innocent he still had feelings like everyone

Second, the injury puts Finny in the hospital, separating the two, which cause Gene to suffer depression. As Finny is badly wounded, he has to leave his boarding school, Devon, for a long period of time. He spends his time in the hospital, away from Gene. FurthermoreThis makes Gene regret his decision even more. Not only are Gene and Finny physically separated, but also emotionally separated. Essentially, Gene loses his

Finny is out of school for a while and Gene admits that he caused this on purpose and Finny is distraught about