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Plot
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Characters
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Quotes
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1. Growing up means taking responsibility for your actions |
Gene not admitting to what he did at the assembly
Making up a lie about the Butt Room
Facing up to the consequences (Finney's death)
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Gene facing up to what he did to Finney
Leper running away from the army
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"My purpose from the first -- to become part of Phineas" (85)
"You want to break something else of me?" (184)
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2. Your view of history changes depending on what's happening to you personally |
Leper leaving school to go to the army (goes insane)
The boys are getting trained to go to war
Gene getting in the fight with Cliff Quackenbush
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Finney saying the war was "fake"
Leper leaving the army
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Gene meeting Leper (150)
"...if he was indeed the enemy" (204)
Gene things Finney is out to ruin his chance at valedictorian(54)
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3. Symbolic things that happen give larger meaning to our experience |
Finney getting away with wearing the pink shirt (Gene changing his attitude)
Leper talking to Gene about the war
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Leper going crazy
Finney falling off the tree
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4. It's hard to go back to the past because we often don't want to face the truth |
Gene trying (and failing) to tell Finney what really happened
Finney doesn't want to hear Gene's confession
Trial at the assembly
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Finney confusing what happened at the tree (saving Gene)
Trying to find out what happened to Leper in the war
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"I was thinking about you..." (68)
"Truth hurts, eh" (88)
"Of course you damn fool" (70)
"I could not escape the feeling that this was my own funeral" (194)
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5. Friends change who you are |
Gene starting to change after he meets Leper
Gene getting jealous over Finney being athletically successfully
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Finney taking Gene to the beach
Finney training Gene for the Olympics
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"You're going to play them for me" (85)
"What was I doing up here anyway?" (173)
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