"Why go trough the motion of getting an education and watched the war slowly chip away at the one thing I had loved here, peace, the measureless, careless peace of the Devon summer"(101)
Gene is in his senior year of high school and he knows that by the end of the school year he would be drafted for the war. This would be a dramatic change for him. The war is a transition from his crazy, wild, and careless teenage years to adulthood. He was protected from the war like it did not affect him or anyone else around him. He will loose the peace he had at the Devon school and he will enter a world unknown to him. The Devon School is his sanctuary where he feels most at ease. I think Gene is comfortable were he is and does not want to change. He wants to live in the timeless memory of his 1942 summer.
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