"'Because I've suffered,' he burst out."(116)
This is the first time Phineas voiced his feelings on misfortune. He never told Gene how he suffered due to his actions and now he vents his pain through in few words.This was unexpected because Phineas did not want to confront him or even talk about it. This changed Phineas a bit. When Phineas came back he was not completely himself. You can sense that his spirits was broken and the happy and athletic boy did not come back. Maybe things will stay dull at the Devon school for now on.
Is Gene going to do something to ruin there friendship?
" It wasn't the cider which made me surpass myself, it was this liberation we had torn from the gray encroachments of 1943, the escape we had concocted of momentary, illusory, special and separate peace."(137)
The war is slowly creeping up to the seniors at the Devon school. Everyone is fearful of the unknown and a lot of they students just gave up. For example, Brinker quit all his extra curricular activities and does not even bother to dress nicely. Who came blame him the only thing his immediate future holds was the war. Phineas' odd idea to have a Winter Carnival helped the guys loosen up and have fun like the summer of 1942.
Will war determined the ended of book?
What is going on in Leper's brain?
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