Gene And Finny

Gene and his roommate Finny (Phineas) become close friends at Devon School in the summer of 1942. Finny is always able to get away with what infractions he makes. He and Gene for a small society over jumping out of a tree into a river. They name it the “Super Suicide Society of the Summer Session”. Finny is very athletic and lures in lots of people by his charismatic behavior. He creates a game called blitzball that becomes popular within the attendees of the summer session. Gene envies Finny’s ability for such athleticism. He believes that Finny is trying to distract him so that he will fail classes and not succeed. His suspicions turn into hatred without any evidence that Finny is out to sabotage him. After realizing that Finny is supportive
Gene becomes an assistant manager of the crew team, but he does not get along with the manager, Quackenbush, so he quits. He agrees to enlist with Brinker Hadley, but he discovers Finny has returned to school. Finny asks Gene to train for the 1944 Olympics in his place and he agrees. Leper is the first in their class to enlist, which surprises everyone. However, the war does not treat Leper well. He contacts Gene saying that he has escaped and needs Gene’s help. Leper tells him that he knows the truth of Finny’s accident and this scares Gene. Brinker organizes a court and makes Gene and Finny come. Both say that the facts are blurry, but Leper persists that it was Gene’s fault. Finny runs away, declaring that it does not matter what happened. He falls down a set of stairs and breaks his leg again. Finny pushes Gene away when he tries to visit him at the infirmary. Later, he accepts Gene’s statements about the truth of what happened. During a procedure on Finny’s leg, he is killed by marrow entering his bloodstream. The boys in his class enlist in different branches of the military. Gene believes that only Finny was immune to the hatred that comes with a human