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Camille Anderson
Javiera Santori
Laura Delaplace
Chapter One:
1. Who is the narrator of the story?
The narrator of the story is Gene.
5. What is the meaning of the expression “The more things change, the more
they remain the same”?
This means that things change but in the end the results are the same.
6. How does the author reveal that Gene has finally accepted what happened
and put the experience behind him?
The author reveals that Gene has accepted what happened because he goes back to
see the tree.
8. How are Gene and Finny united after the jumps from the tree?
They are united after they jump from the tree because since they both jumped
from the tree they both felt special.
Chapter Two:
9. Why does Finny say they “had to” jump out of the tree?
He said they had to do it because he said that if he did it everyone had to do it
too.
11. Why does Gene state that it is “perfectly natural” to envy a best friend?
Gene states that it is perfectly natural because he says that there was no harm in
envying.
12. What is Gene’s response when Finny “gets away with” wearing the tie?
Gene got exited since he thought Finny wasn’t going to get away with it this time.
13. What does Gene reveal when he says 1942 was his sarcastic time, but that
sarcasm is the protest of the weak?
Gene reveals that he is weak.
Chapter Three:
17. Why does Gene try to blame Finny for saving his life?
He says that if it wasn’t for Finny he wouldn’t have been on the tree in the first
place.
Chapter Four:
22. Why does Finny say that he has to waste Gene’s time “for him”?
He says that because Gene is always studying and following rules.
23. Why does Gene fell better when he thinks Finny has been sabotaging his
efforts to be head of the class?
He believes that Finny is jealous of him.
24. What does Finny say that makes Gene want to destroy him?
He says don’t study so much and don’t try so hard.
Chapter Five:
26. Why does Gene put on Finny’s clothes?
He puts on his clothes because he wanted to be similar to Finny.
27. Why does Gene accuse Finny of trying to pull him down?
He accuses him because Finny is always interrupting Gene’s studies and making him
waste time.
Chapter Six:
30. Contrast the summer and winter sessions.
The difference of the summer and the winter session is that in the summer, the
students could go out and swim in the river, but in the winter, it’s like they can’t go
out much because of the cold and the snow. In the winter, the atmosphere was
sadder.
32. How does Finny relate Gene’s failure to take another roommate to the
impossibility of his confession?
33. Why does Gene apply for the job of assistant crew manager?
He applies because he didn’t want to play sports anymore because ever since Finny
got injured, he didn’t feel obligated to do sports anymore.
Chapter Seven:
34. Compare Leper’s evasion of the war to Finny’s.
Leper’s evasion is that he is never thinking about the war and is always thinking of
animals and other things. Finny’s evasion is that he doesn’t believe that the war is
even happening. He is in denial of bad things happening in the world.
35. Why does Gene feel that evil lurks in everything he does?
Gene feels that evil lurks in everything he does because every time he did
something, something bad came out of it.
Chapter Nine:
38. What is significant in Leper’s change of heart toward the war?
The significance in Leper’s change of heart toward the war is that the war changed
a lot of people’s opinion about things that they really believed in.
Chapter Ten:
40. How has the war changed Leper?
Leper had mental problems. He was crazy.
41. Why does the exposure of Leper’s deranged hallucinations bring the two
boys close together?
It brings the two boys close together because thay talk about their fears of
becoming adults and facin responsibilities.
Chapter Eleven
42. How is Gene’s developing maturity shown?
Gene’s developing of maturity is shown when he is not afraid of sports any
more and he is also no afraid of Phineas and he was also much more collected and
composed than he had been before.
Chapter Thirteen
47. What different attitudes are revealed when Mr. Brinker says that war
memories are a part of a man forever?
Mr. Brinker says that war memories are a par of a man for ever because it’s
important to be proud of knowing that you fought for your country. Mr. Brinker is
disapointed in Gene and Brinker because they enlisted for things that made them
far away from getting to the war.
48. How has Brinker changed his views toward the war?
Brinker at first wanted to be part of the war but when he had to be part of it he
thought totally different, he didn’t want to go he wanted to stays as far as
possible of the war.
50. How does Gene redeem himself after his fall from innocence?
Gene sees that he has killed his “enemy” in Devon meaning how he was inside and
his jealousy.