How Does Finny Hurt His Leg Again

A Divide Peace

by John Knowles

Phineas Timeline and Summary

• Phineas convinces Factor to jump out of the tree into the Devon river subsequently he does information technology first himself.
• On the way back to campus, the boys horse around for a fleck and miss dinner. That nighttime, they both work on their homework assignments.
• The adjacent 24-hour interval, Finny talks them out of a penalization for missing dinner.
• Phineas is a regular Joan Rivers at the afternoon tea and charms the pants off everyone. He even avoids getting in trouble for wearing the school necktie equally a belt.
• Factor and Finny go jump off the tree again and course the Super Suicide Society. Up in the tree, Gene stumbles and nigh falls until Finny grabs and steadies him.
• 1 mean solar day, without any exercise, Phineas breaks i of the school's pond records. He makes Cistron promise not to tell anyone.
• Finny talks Gene into going to the beach with him. There, he tells Gene that he's his best friend.
• Finny is defenseless completely by surprise to discover that Gene has to study in order to exercise well in school. He thought academics came equally easily to Gene equally athletics did to him (to Finny).
• Considering Leper has finally decided to join the Super Suicide Society, Phineas brings him and Gene to the tree. To open the ceremony, he climbs the tree with Gene to exercise a double jump, loses his balance when Gene jounces the limb, and falls to the ground, shattering his leg.
• Finny is laid upwardly in the Infirmary when Gene comes to visit. He doesn't suspect his friend of having harmed him.
• Phineas is taken to his home to rest upwardly for the residue of the summertime.
• In September, when Gene comes to visit, Finny is happy to see him, but not so happy to hear Cistron confess most the accident. He lashes out, yelling at Factor, and insists that he get out.
• Finny calls Gene on the telephone, having decided, it appears, to forget almost the confession. He tells his friend that, if he cannot play sports, Factor has to play them for him.
• Finny comes back to campus and is outraged at the thought of Gene leaving to enlist.
• His offset twenty-four hours back, Phineas wants to skip class and walk (or crutch, every bit the instance has information technology) around the campus. Gene complies, and the boys go to the gym, where Finny checks out the locker room for a bit.
• Gene is amused by Phineas'due south "in that location is no real war" theory. When Phineas makes things bad-mannered past talking about suffering, Gene does some chin-ups, and Finny decides they should train him for the 1944 Olympics.
• When Mr. Ludsbury later suggests at that place volition be no 1944 Olympics, Finny responds curtly.
• Finny doesn't continue with the other boys when they imagine Leper partaking in all the big events of the war.
• Phineas designs a Wintertime Carnival in which Cistron can compete in a variety of pseudo-Olympic events.
• When Finny hears about Leper'due south insanity, he admits that the war really exists.
• Finny and Factor are taken to the Assembly Hall one night after hours for Brinker's "investigation." Finny wants no part of information technology, but once he is prodded into recounting the event, he begins to become interested. He tin't seem to remember where Gene was when he fell.
• After Leper's testimonial, Finny shouts that he doesn't care and leaves the assembly hall after blasphemous at Brinker. He then falls down the marble stairs and breaks his leg for the second fourth dimension.
• Finny is laid upwardly in the Infirmary when Gene sneaks through his window that night. He wants nothing to do with this guy who has now TWICE, at least indirectly, broken him. He yells at Gene, who promptly leaves.
• The next time the two boys see each other, Finny has calmed down a bit.
• The boys are alone long enough to, in short, work out their issues. They conclude that Gene simply felt something "blind" and "crazy" up in the tree, and that information technology was "nothing personal" against Finny.
• Finny dies in surgery; Gene concludes that what fabricated him different from everyone else was his lack of resentment or fear.

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