Shouldn’t certain things be kept from the knowledge of the public, for the sake of the public itself? Brinker Hadley is one person whose peers would have been better off, if he had simply abided by that statement. To illustrate, Brinker had the majority part to do with Phineas’s overall death, because of him not keeping the knowledge of something crucial hidden. In the story, there is a large tree by a body of water, with rungs of wood leading up to a limb that, although it is very dangerous, can be jumped off of into the water. This limb is very close to the shore of the water, and if someone were to jump off too soon, they would risk hitting the shallow water, instead of the deeper end. On page 59, Phineas suggests to Gene that the two