Chapter 12

In the moments following Finny's fall down the staircase, we all were in aw as we watched finny slowly dying on the floor. Brinker shouted "Phineas must not be moved"(170). Everyone knew that there would only be one night nurse at the infirmary so everyone rushed to go get her.Dr. Stanpole arrives and has finny carried out on a chair. " The foyer and the staircase of the First Building were soon as crowded as at midday"(170). They would not let me in so I had to sneek my way in through the window. As I arrived throught he window I heard a voice say "Who is it"(176)! All I could think to say to him is "Im sorry" and just kept repeating myself. This was one of the few times I had cried in my life. After I thought about the tree and how none of this would have happened if it wasnt for that one accident. I started to cry more and more. Dr. Stanpole was the one that delivered the worst news I could have ever heard. Just four words that would ruin my life for ever. These four words were "your friend is dead"(185).

Chapter 11

When I had returned home from my trip " I found finny in the middle of a snowball fight in a place called the Fields Beyond"(144). I asked finny how he could play with out his cast on because I did not want to see him get hurt. He replied I can feel my bones getting stronger. He had also informed me with a bit of information also saying that bones come back stronger where they were broken. Later Brinker came into our room to come and talk about Leper. I told them the truth I said that Leper had changed dramarically and that he has desserted the army for good because he felt that it was doing wrong things for him. We get closer and closer to enlisting and all the boys that can have except for me. Leper decided that he was going to testify against me. I just felt like he was going mad. In there finny arrose and said "I dont care what happened"! and ran out of the room. Everyone could her him as his cane would hit the floor with tears in his eyes. He ran out the courtroom and down the hallway. Everyone was very quiet and then I hear a big thump again and again. I knew right away that it had to be finny falling down the marble staircase in the main hall of the entire Devon school.

Chapter 9

As me and finny train together I start to think about how unreal that the war is. What makes it even more unreal is the fact that Leper Lepellier is looking up skii troops to enlist in. Brinker starts to make fun of Leper and finny wants no part int it. When we were at the butt room they started to talk about leper and finny refused to join in so I did too. As we started to get more and more closer I eventually stopped going to the butt room. After that I stopped talking to my friends all together. It seemed as though if I talked to finny everytime I would be takin further and further away from my friends. And after a while it was just me and him training for the olympics everyday. I think it was at the point when Leper said "I'm going to enlist in these skii troops"(117) that finny wanted nothing to do with them. He felt as though that was a cowards way into the war. Finny had decided to organize a winter carnival and everyone was assigned jobs. But durring this Leper had left a letter that he had escaped and should go to the "Christmas Location".

chapter 10

I wanted to visit Lepers "Christmas Location" this was just his home in Vermont. I took the train and then the bus through the entire New England area. I landed in Leper's town the next morning. I walked the rest of the way. But I just could not get out of my head that Leper had decided to desert the army. "If Leper was psycho the army had done it to him, and all of us were on the brink of the army". Leper was waiting for me in his window and he grabbed me quickly and brought me into the dining room. He asked me about the army and what I had known about it. I told him I knew what was normal but Leper replied with " Nromal, he reapeated bitterly. What a stupid ass word"(135). When I said this it really enraged him so much. It was all because they thought that he was a psycho and he needed to take tests and put it down on documents. This meant that he could not live a normal life. Because most jobs would not allow a person of his stature in there. Before I knew this I thought it was all because he was afraid to go to war but after all it was because he was using his head, instead of doing things first like Brinker.

Chapter 8

Finny already is starting to give me a hard time. He started to make fun of my clothing we both just laughed. Mainly I laughed because of the fact that I was happy to see him again. The next day Brinker rushed in and was about to ask me if I was ready to enlist. Brinker continued to say " Your little plot didnt work so well after all huh"(98). Finny began to get supspicious of me. So I decided to change the subject again. I told him that I wanted to enlist into the army with him. Seeing from his facial expressions he clearly did not like the idea of me leaving him again. So I decided I wanted to show finny how much I really cared about our friendship and told Brinker
" I wouldn't go to war with you if you were General MacArthur's eldest son"(100). This enraged Binker but I don't really care because finny means more to me then him and what ever finny wants and thinks is right for me i'll go with. It ended with finny making Brinkers new nick name "Yellow Peril". As we walked to our first class we finny said winter loves me. I wondered why until he continued with because I love the winter so it has to return the affection. Finny proceeds to tell me that he wanted to go to the olympics and wishes that I would try and do it for him. Me and finny were training running around the house. I finally had found my sprint figure and started sprinting better than ever. This was all because of finny.

Chapter 7

Brinker came across the hall to congratulate me on getting a huge room to myself. Jokingly he says " I'll bet you knew all the time finny wouldn't be back this fall, thats why you picked him for a roomate right"(79). I tried to play along with it saying of course not. But it kind of enraged me a little bit even if he was joking. It was one of those things that I was really sensitive about. To try to get off the subject I asked Brinker " I feel like a smoke, don't you? Lets go down to the Butt Room"(80). When we got there Brinker tried to make it like a dungeon and he had brought me into it because I had killed my bestfriend. I had tried to play it off well by making an obvious statement of how it happened but I had choked up when trying it and the boy said that, that is an obvious mark he really did. Then to try to get the attention off of me I brought out the kids hatred then said I had to study for french and left. To get money they had brought up they idea that if we shoveled off the railroad tracks we could get money for it. on my way there I saw Leper. Leper told me that " Well, you might want to come sometime, if I find the place"(87). So I replied I deffinetley will do so. I work on the same team with Brink but the work doesn't really interest me and I think its boring and tedious. As we start to walk home Brink says that he wants to enlist now. I agree and after a night of thinking I go up to. But as I return home there is a suprise waiting for me. It is finny.

Chapter 6

I returned from our vacation and went to the first chapel of the school year. Everything seemed like it was all back to normal. Besides the fact that finny was still not back to school. " After morning classes and lunch I went across to see brinker"(66). But then I decided I didn't want to go see brinker and his snails. I had suddenly realized " I was late for my afternoon appointment"(67). On the way to the meeting I stopped at the bridge and started to see a lot of things. " I thought of Phineas not of the tree and pain, but one of Phineas's favorite tricks"(67). This trick was when finny would stand on the top of the canoe like a river god. This had always cheered me up no matter what. I was promoted assistant senior crew manager. But this meant I had to work under Cliff Quackenbush. He was always unhappy and never joyful about anything. He was one of those bullys that you picture taking a four year olds lunch money. He started to get insulted that I took assistant he said " The crew waits for no man"(68). I thought that it was halrious because he took this thing way to serious. But obviously he didn't because he thought that I took this whole thing as a joke. I really didn't I just felt what he said was so uneccesary and funny. He just kept tormenting me to the point where I couldn't hold myself back and I blasted him in the face and we started to fight. We fell into the river, I pulled myself out and he said not to come back, in my head I thought to myself why would you think im gonna come back. When I returned to my dorm Mr. Ludsburry told me that I had a long distance phone call waiting for me. I was curious to see who it was. So I went into get it and it was finny. He had called and wished me a happy first day of the year, gladdly i replied thanks thanks a lot. Then he began to talk about how I was getting kind of crazy and asked me if I had recovered. I told him that I was assistant crew manager and he was so happy for me. But then I had to tell him that I got in a fist fight and don't think I have it anymore. No matter what I said finny was still stuck up in me getting the job. Finally finny told me that I had to take his place in sports which I gladly will do.