- Please select a passage that you believe is the most important of the chapter in how it reveals a theme, or topic of theme. Be able, willing and ready to share your quote, and be able to relate the quote to the insight in life of the novel.
- Respond to at least one other person's posted text by stating what you believe to be the thematic importance of their quote.
- Bring quote, and response to another person's quote to class tomorrow for credit and a group activity.
Vocab Quiz Friday- Unit 4
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“So am I,” he said thinly, I’m important. You have never realized it, but I’m important too. You be the fool,” he gazed shrewdly at Brinker, “you do whatever anyone wants whenever they want it. You be the fool now. Bastard.”
Leper always was the exact type when it came to details," continued Brinker. "He could have told us where everybody was standing, what everybody was wearing, the whole conversation that day, and what the temperature was. He could have cleared this whole thing up. Too bad." Pg. 172
"Leper's gone crazy. When I heard that about Leper, then I knew that the war was real, this war and all the wars. If a war can drive somebody crazy, then it's real all right." Pg 163
"Oh Leper's-how would he be? You know Leper-" (152)
"If you really think there ever was a Caesar (163)."
"There was no rush to get into the fighting; no one seemed to feel the need to get into the infantry, and only few were talking about the marines." p. 159
"but by now I no longer needed this vivid false identity; now I was acquiring, I felt, a sense of my own real authority and worth, I had had many new experiences and I was growing up." Chapter 11, pg. 156
-During the summer Gene was in an insecure state of mind due to his paranoia about Finny and everyone else on the campus. Now he is much more collected and composed than he had been before. Sports no longer scare him and neither does Finny.
"There they were now, the cream of the school, the lights and leaders of the senior class, with their high I.Q.'s and expensive shoes, as Brinker had said, pasting each other with snowballs."
A Seperate Peace, p153
"You get all your facts!" I had never seen Finny crying, "You collect every f---ing fact there is in the world!" He plunged out the doors. (p.177)
“‘You’ve been putting off enlistment in something for only one reason,’ he said at once. ‘You know that don’t you?’
‘No I don’t know that.’
Well, I know, and I’ll tell you what it is. It’s Finny. You pity him.’
‘Pity him!’
Yes, pity him. And if you don’t watch out he’s going to start pitying himself…”
"Yes, I shrugged, Leper. Leper's not the little rabbit we used to know any more." (156)
"I myself took no action. I didn't feel free to, and I didn't know why this was so. Brinker, in His accelerating change from absolute to relative virtue, came up with plan after plan, each more insulated from the fighting than the last. But I did nothing (pg. 159)"
"He must be out of his mind," said Brinker energetically "to do a thing like that. I'll bet he cracked up, didn't he? Thats what happened. Leper found out that the army was just too much for him. Ive heard about guys like that.some mornings they don't get out if bed with everybody else. They just lie there crying. Ill bet something like that happened to Leper." He looked at me. "Didn't it?" (157)
"But by now I no longer needed this vivid false identity; now I was acquiring, I felt, A sense of my own real authority and worth, I had had many new experiences and I was growing up" (156)
"But by now I no longer needed this vivid false identity;now I was acquiring, I felt a senase of my own real authority and worth, I had many new experiences and I was growing up(156)."
"christ, don't break it again!"
"no, of course I won't break it again. Isn't the bone supposed to be stronger when i grows over togerther over a place it's been broken before?
"Yes, I think it is"
"I think so to. In fact I can feel it getting stronger."
"You think you can? Can you feel it ?"
"Yes I think so."
"Thank god"
"What?"
"I said that's good"
"Yes I guess it is. I guess thats good alright."
"ever since then I've had a feeling that the tree did it by itself" (161).
Felt the need to drop some knowledge on you youngin's...
"Everywhere there was the smell of vitality in clothes, the vital something in wool and flannel and corduroy which spring releases. I had forgotten that this existed, this smell which instead of the first robin, or the first bud or leaf, means to me that spring has come. I had always welcomed vitality and energy and warmth radiating from thick and sturdy winter clothes. It made me happy, but I kept wondering about next spring, about whether khaki, or suntans or whatever the uniform of the season was, had this aura of promise in it. I felt fairly sure it didn't" (155).
-Mr. Perkins
“So am I,” he said thinly, “I’m important. You’ve never realized it but I’m important too. You be the fool,” he gazed shrewdly at Brinker, “you do whatever anyone wants whenever they want it. You be the fool now. Bastard.”(176)
Once again Leper hits the soft spot of another important person in his life while creating massive chaos in his own mind. He said in the last chapter he really did not hate Brinker but he could not exactly admit to the fact that he makes his life worse. Leper is becoming more insane the more he is involved with society and is demolishing everybody involved at the assembly including Gene even though Gene came to him in a time of need and was trying to work with him
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