Time Period: Flash backs to 1940’s (WWII) assoc. w/ fear
Characters:
Gene Forrester- Narrator, best friends with Phineas.
Phineas “Finny” – Roommate w/ Gene, Daredevil- dares others to jump off of a tree into the river. Finny’s friends- Elwin “Leper” Lepellier, Chet Douglass, and Bobby Zane
Devon School: Prepares boys for the war.
Places that are assoc. w/ fear: stairway, tree
Tone: dreary, sterile, fear
War is represented by the boys leaping off the tree- adventure and bravery.