Will Leper return to Devon? Why or why not? I agree with everything you said about the war turning Leper into a savage. I think that Gene and Lepers friendship will never get repaired. I feel that Gene thinks he is a complete psycho, and that he kind of scares Gene. Also, I feel that he is not in a good enough state to return to Devon, so Gene and him will no longer have contact. But I feel this is better for both of them, knowing how Gene ran away from him.
Would it be a positive or negative thing if they continued to have contact? I agree with most everything you said, Rachel. However, I believe that the war brought out the insanity, not anger, in Leper.
Throughout the novel, Leper has always been It hasn't been to such a severe point though. The war brought out the insanity, not anger in Leper. I don't think that Gene and Leper's friendship will ever be repaired. Hadley, the reality of war rises to its greatest importance years afterwards, in competitive talks with other men.
He urges his son toward dangerous war service, therefore, just as he would advise him to choose a prestigious college, to ensure respect and position in later years. In effect, for him, a man's war service becomes his resume. Gene's response to Mr. Hadley dramatizes how the acceptance of his own guilt has made him more accepting of others' weaknesses. Brinker's resentment of his father rises from his anger at the older generation who caused the war but now face no threat from it.
But Gene views Brinker's father with less anger, and even some compassion. In fact, unlike Brinker or Finny, Gene does not blame the war on the older generation, but on "something ignorant in the human heart" — the same incomprehensible feeling that prompted him to jounce the limb and make Finny fall.
The conclusion makes clear that Gene acknowledges both his guilt in Finny's death and Finny's enduring power in his life.
At Devon, Gene recalls, "I killed my enemy" — the uncertain, angry self that caused Finny's accident. Drained of fury and fear, Gene accepts the challenge of service and lives through the war without the burden of hatred, falling into conventional military step "as well as my nature, Phineas-filled, would allow. In his life and death, then, Finny gives Gene a part of his own vital spirit — a natural gift for friendship, humor, and peaceful harmony — that sees his friend through the war that awaits him, and adulthood, too.
Here, it represents the infantry fighting Gene hopes to avoid. Maginot Line after A. Maginot [], French minister of war , a system of heavy fortifications built before World War II on the eastern frontier of France; it failed to prevent invasion by the Nazi armies. Here, Gene uses the term to describe the barriers people put up to defend themselves against a perceived threat.
Previous Chapter Next Gene Forrester. Ahcene, you made a definitive statement that Leper will have any experience in the war. You also said that Leper produces pathetic behavior. I am unsure that Leper's behavior is really "pathetic. In the army, it is very encouraged to act "normally" instead of standing out and being imaginative like Leper It will be interesting to follow Leper's internal struggles with maintaing his creative characteristics while being shaped to act a certain way in an army.
Now that Leper has gone to war, the whole book has changed because the book is not going to say much about Leper and if it does talk about Leper it will be about his experience in the war. Leper's enlistment also affects all the characters because the other characters might change their idea about the war and enlist themselves like Leper. The other thing that will affect the characters are the way they talk about Leper and now the characters don't have anyone to make fun of which will change the whole attitude of the characters.
The whole book would change if another character enlisted into the war first because if Gene enlisted in the war most of the book will be about his experience in the war instead of him and Finny in the Devon's school.
Leper will get something valuable out of the war that will change his whole life. Monday, October 10, What is so ironic about Leper being the first boy at Devon to enlist in the war?
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