In “a separate peace,” gene and finny become very close friends during the summer session of 1942. One day, finny wanted gene to jump with him up from a tree and into the river. By doing this, they created the super suicide society of the summer session in where they do other rituals with other people. A few days after, when gene and finny were going to jump off the tree again, gene bent his knees, causing the branch to shake and make finny fall off the tree and break his leg. The doctor comes in and states that finny’s athletic days are over now, which makes gene feel guilty for what he has done. He tries to tell finny, but he says that it is not true and that it was probably all a mistake. A few weeks later, one of their friends, Brinker,