“Yes I did. I did!”
“Of course you didn’t do it. You damn fool. Sit down, you damn fool.”
“Of course I did!”
“I’m going to hit you if you don’t sit down.”
“Hit me!” you can’t even get up! You can’t even come near me!” (Knowles 70)
This dialogue, from A Separate Peace by John Knowles, illustrates the two characters Finny and Gene having a heated argument. This was because Gene confesses that he pushed Finny out of the tree and caused him to be severely injured. This is what created the inner enemy between them two. Gene and Finny started off as good friends. They felt they should be friends because they felt competition or jealousy between each other and they felt that them being friends they could learn from each other. Gene wasn’t really the athletic type but Finny was. Therefore Finny kind of influenced on Gene. It was like an opposites attract situation.
“A suicide society,” I said stiffly.
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The Super Suicide Society of the Summer Session! How’s that?
“That’s fine, that’s okay.” (Knowles 31)
This is where Gene and Finny just created “The Suicide Society of the Summer Session”. They were heading out of the lake after jumping out the tree. This was where they started jumping out do trees and doing other suicidal things. This is what also caused the problem between Gene and Finny. Although they thought this was a fun thing to engage in, it wasn’t healthy for their friendship. It actually caused one of them their life. It wasn’t from fault of one of them it was fate. I honestly fell that Gene really felt a lot of grief about the death of Finny. Like the night in the infirmary Gene was wreaking with fear that Finny knew what happened. Not saying it was his fault but he had something to do with it. If it wasn’t for the first time then maybe he’d still be living. Gene didn’t cry though, but he was very angry. It’s good that they worked out their issues before finny passed during the operation. Gene probably would’ve felt even worse if they