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" I went back to Devon School not long ago, and found it looking oddly newer than when I was a student there fifteen years before."
When Gene went back to Devon School, the school didn't look like it used to. It looked newer.(1) -
"The tree was not only stripped by the cold season, it seemed weary from age, enfeebled, dry."
When Gene saw the tree it was changed and death was overcoming it. It connects the their "Group Name"(6) -
"We undressed, and I put on some pajamas, but Phineas, who heard they were unmilitary, didn't..."
Phineas doesn't wear pajamas anymore because it was unmilitary. He also said prayers.(13) -
" Bombs in Central Europe were completely unreal to us here, not because we couldn't imagine it..."
The students at Devon School didn't know what was going on in the war until newspapers and magazines came out.(23 -
"Good! The Super Suicide Society of the Summer Session!"(24)
Gene and Finny created a society.The society was called the Super Suicide Society.(24) -
The Devon school record book contained a mistake, a lie, and nobody knew but me and Finny."(36)
Finny broke the swimming record. He told no one of this though.(35) -
"The next morning I saw dawn for the first time."
When Finny and Gene went to the beach, they saw for the first time.(41) -
" The new attacks of studying were his emergency measures to save himself."
Phineas increased his amount of studying.(47) -
Finny his balance gone,swung his head around to look at me for an instant wtih extreme interest, and then he tumbled sideways, broke through the little branches below and hit the bank with a sickening, unnatural thud."(52)
Finny fell out of the tree and broke his leg,(52) -
"Dr. Stanpole hesitated, and I think glanced at me, for a moment. Sports are finished."
Because Finny broke his leg, his prognosis was that he can't play sports anymore.(55) -
"In any case I was late for my afternoon appointment. I never used to be late."
Gene was late for an appointment, and he is never late for one.(67) -
" He was seated in my chair at the desk, bending down to adjust the gross encumbrance of his leg, so that only the familiar ears set close against his head were visible, and his short-cut brown hair."(94)
Finny is back at Devon School.(94) -
"The room was bitterly cold."
It is finally winter.(97) -
"Leave your fantasy life out of this. We're grooming you for the Olympics."
Gene is training for the Olympics.(109) -
"I'm going to enlist in these ski troops."
Leper is going to enlist himself in the ski troops.(117) -
"The Winter Carnival. The Devon Winter Carnival."
They created a Devon Winter Carnival.(121) -
" If he could not enlist-and for all his self-sufficiency Brinker could not do much without company-he could at least cease to be so multifariously civilian."(121)
Brinker resigned presidency of the Golden Fleece Debating Society. Brinker dropped a lot of school activites.(122) -
" He looked at me,and I noticed the left side of his upper lip lift once or twice as though he was about to snarl or cry."(133)
Leper escaped from the Ski troops, and when Gene visited him, is personality was different.(133) -
"Then these seperate sounds collided into the general tumult of his body falling clumsily down the white marble staris."
Finny got mad and stormed out of the room. He fell down the white marble stairs.(169) -
"Your friend is dead."
Finny died.(185) -
The Separate Peace Movie.
