Leper Chapter 10 Deserts army Secretly retreats home

• Leper Chapter 10 – Deserts army – Secretly retreats home to VT • Gene visits – Something wrong with Leper – Pressure of army too great for him – Gene doesn’t want to understand the depths of Leper’s mental torture • Imagery- stars in window p. 141 – separateness

Chapter 10 • Leper accused Gene of being – “a savage underneath…like that time you knocked Finny out of the tree. ” p. 145 – Accusation infuriates Gene – Kicks Leper’s chair – Leper giggles incoherently – Gene guiltily accepts lunch w/ Leper • They go for a walk – Gene wishes the old Leper was back • Imagery- nature – Frozen wasteland – Leper’s fragile mental state- cracking like ice

Chapter 11 • Snowball fight- imitation of real war • Gene tells Finny and Brinker about Leper – Boys take news hard – Reality of war set in at Devon • Leper is the reminder that war can kill the mind/spirit as well as the body • Brinker threatens Gene after chapel – – Jealous of friendship between G & F Says Gene should stop pitying Finny Resents Finny’s “charmed” life & Gene’s role as protector Brings up accident ominously- hopes by instilling fear in Gene, he can get truth

Chapter 11 • Finny sees Leper on campus – He believes war is real, p. 163 • Brinker and 3 cohorts abduct Gene and Finny – – Boys think it’s a prank First Academy Building- late “Here boys come to be made men” Tribunal planned • Brinker- Main inquisitor – Want truth about tree incident – Leper in spotlight – “They moved like an engine” • Gene & Finny- neither able to operate alone • Gene- cold, unthinking

Chapter 11 • Finny’s “separate peace” is shattered • Cries, runs • Falls down marble stairs

Chapter 12 • 2 nd fall – – Call adults for help- doctor, wrestling coach Gene is by Finny’s side Clean break, but needs surgery Finny is angry- “You want to break something else in me? ” • Finny realizes he will never serve in war – Wrote letters to every war department • Finny in the war - p. 191 – To him, war would be a sport – Everyone wins at sports – not equipped for reality

Chapter 12 • Finny dies during operation – Piece of bone marrow traveled to his heart- symbolism • Gene didn’t cry at funeral – You don’t cry at your own

Chapter 13 • War comes to Devon – Far common – Parachute rigger’s school • Gene- navy, Brinker- coast guard • Brinker blames his father’s generation for the war • “…wars were made instead by something ignorant in the human heart. ” p. 201 – Violence in every generation – The human condition

Chapter 13 • Gene iterates the idea that Phineas was different from us all – No hostility or fear – Can’t survive in reality – Illusion of childhood = thinking world is a purely friendly place • “I never killed anybody…I killed my enemy there. ” p. 204 – Finny wasn’t the enemy • Fear, violence, competition, ego – The enemy was self-inflicted – In a battle with himself

Last paragraph…. What? ? • Maginot lines- historical allusion • built by the French as a defense against German invasion following World War I. The defense system was built a great expense, requiring great effort, but it did little to slow the Germans once they attacked during World War II. • Our mental defenses • We don’t suspect that the real enemy, our own fear and hatred, lies within us

Other important literary elements • Symbolic nature of Names: Gene Forrester, Leper • Illusion vs Reality – examples • Tone – sense of reflection, contemplative • Loaded (lots of symbolism) • Adult Gene is still trying to learn and grow