Select a passage that you believe is the most important of the chapter in how it reveals:
- Gene's change and/or development,
- a theme
- a symbol
Respond to at least one other person's posted text by stating what you believe to be the importance of their quote.
Bring quote, and response to another person's quote to class tomorrow for credit and a group activity.
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“I did not cry then or ever about Finny. I didn’t even cry when I stood watching him being lowered into his family’s strait laced burial ground outside of Boston. I couldn’t escape the felling that this was my own funeral, and you do not cry in that case.” Chapter 12 page 194
"I don't know." I went over to the window and placed my hands on the sill. I looked down at them with a sense of detachment, as though they were hands somebody had sculpted and put on exhibited somewhere. "I had to." Then I added with great difficulty, "I thought I belonged here." (189)
"Yes, you'd get confused and borrow one of their uniforms, and you'd lend them one of yours. Sure that's just what would happen. You'd get things so scrambled up nobody would know who to fight any more. You'd make a mess, a terrible mess, Finny, out of the war" Page 191
"My aid alone had never seemed to him in the category of help. The reason for this occurred to me as the procession moved slowly across the brilliant foyer to the doors; Phineas had thought of me as an extension of himself."
page 180
"I was on active duty all my time at school; I killed my enemy there (204)."
"I felt that I was not, never had been, and never would be a living part of this overpoweringly solid and deeply meaningful world around me" chapter 12 page 182
"No, I don't know how to show you, how can i show you Finny? Tell me how to show you. It was just some ignorance inside me, some crazy thing inside me, something blind, that's all it was. p. 191
"It seemed to alter moment by moment before my eyes, becoming with a significance much deeper and far more real than any I had noticed before. The same was true for the water hole where unauthorized games of hockey were played during the winter" (186)
"I knew what I said was important and right, and my voice found that full tone voices have when they are expressing something long-felt and long-understood and released at last....'You'd get things so scrambled up nobody would know who to fight any more. You'd make a mess, a terrible mess, Finny, out of the war.'" Chapter 12, pg. 190-1
"'This is something I think boys of your generation are going to see a lot of,' he said quietly, 'and I will have to tell you about it now. Your friend is dead'"
A Seperate Peace, Chapter 12, pg. 193
"I was about ready to write to somebody in Russia." (Page 190)
“I did not cry then or ever about Finny. I didnt even cry when I stood watching him being lowered into his family’s strait laced burial ground outside of Boston. I couldn’t escape the feeling that this was my own funeral, and you do not cry in that case.”
Page 194 Chap 12
Rudi
Once again, droppin' knowledge...
"They unrolled away impervious to me as though I were a roaming ghost, not only tonight but always, as thought I had never played on them a hundred times, as thought my feet had never touched them, as though my whole life at Devon had been a dream, or rather that everything at Devon, the playing fields, the gym, the water hole, and all the other buildings and all the people there were intensely real, wildly alive and totally meaningful, and I alone was a dream, a figment which had never really touched anything. I felt that I was not, never had been and never would be a living part of this overpoweringly solid and deeply meaningful world around me...
The stadium itself, two white concrete banks of seats, was as powerful and alien to me as an Aztec ruin, filled with the traces of vanished people and vanished rites, of supreme emotions and supreme tragedies. The old phrase about 'If these walls could only speak' occurred to me and I felt it more deeply than anyone has ever felt it, I felt that the stadium could not only speak but that its words could hold me spellbound. In fact the stadium did speak powerfully and at all times, including this moment. But I could not hear, and that was because I did not exist" (186-187).
Mr. Perkins
"But then times change, and wars change. But men don't change, do they (pg. 198)?"
"Because it seemed clear that wars were not made by generations and their special stupidities, but that that wars were made instead by something ignorant in the human heart." (201)
"I had to be right in never talking about what you could not change, and I had to make many people agree that I was right. None of them ever accused me of being responsible for what had happened to Phineas, either because could not believe it or else because they could not understand it. I would have talked about that, but they would not, and I would not talk about Phineas in any other way.” (197)
"I did not cry then or ever about Finny. I did not cry even when i stood watching him being lowered into his family's straight-laced burial ground outside of Boston. I could not escape a feeling that this was my own funeral, and you do not cry in that case."P194
-"I did not cry then or ever about Finny. I did not cry even when I stood watching him being lowered into his family's strait-laced burial ground outside of Boston. I could not escape a feeling that this was my own funeral, and you do not cry in that case(194)."
-"I was ready for the war, now that I no longer had any hatred to contribute to it. My fury was gone, I felt it gone, dried up at the source, withered and lifeless. Phineas had absorbed it and taken itwith him, and I was rid of it forever(203)."
-"I was on active duty all my time at school; I killed my enemy there
(204)."
"I was on active duty all my time at school; I killed my enemy there" (196).
The old phrase about "If walls could only speak" occured to me and I felt it more deeply than anyone had ever felt it, I felt that the stadium could not only speak but that its words could hold me spellbound.(187)
All of them, all except Phineas, constructed at infinite cost to themselves these Maginot Lines against this enemy they thought they saw across the frontier, this enemy who never attacked that way-if he ever attacked at all; if he was indeed the enemy. 204
I was on active duty all my time at school; I killed my enemy there. Pg. 204
Who was his enemy? Was it Phineas?
"The same was true of the water hole, where unauthorized games of hockey were played during the winter. The ice was breaking up on it now, with just a few glazed islands of ice remaining in the center and a fringe of hard surface glinting along the banks. The old trees surrounding it all were intensely meaningful, with a message that was very pressing and entirely indecipherable. Here the road turned to the left and became dirt. It proceeded along the lower end of playing fields, under the pale night glow the playing fields swept away from me in slight frosty undulations which bespoke meaning upon meanings levels of reality I had never suspected before, a kind of thronging and epic grandeur which my superficial eyes & cluttered mind had been blind before."(186)
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