This represents Gene jumping out of the tree into the river.
This represents the two boys, Gene and Finny.
This picture represents the tree near the river.
This represents the two boys wrestling.
Hello, this is Phineas welcome to my blog. Most people call me Finny. I came into the story when my best friend Gene began his flashback. You first witnessed my presence at the tree in the woods where Gene,Elwin Lepellier,Chet Douglas, and Bobby Zane were all hanging out before dinner. I remember telling Gene, "You cant stand around admiring the view, Jump(9)!". This was after i had demonstrated jumping off the tree branch into the river. Jumping off the branch into the river is what the older boys do in order to be able to departure for war, so its pretty much a big deal. Soon after, i get him to jump in. Although he does i was able to encourage any of the others to do it to. When we were walking back to go to dinner, i simply said to Gene, "You were very good, once i shamed you into it(10)." I thought that this statement was totally true but Gene disagreed with me, he said, "You didn't shame anybody into anything(10)." This was clearly a false statement on his part, i believe i did shame him into it. The bell for dinner then rang, which would make us late. I tripped Gene when he began to run to catch dinner before it was to late.I liked to call Gene's way of running his "West point stride" which is why i tripped him in the first place. This frustrated him because he then tackled me to the ground. As we wrestled the other guys ran ahead to be on time for dinner. They began to yell at us to hurry up. After i won the wrestling match against Gene I said, "Better hurry, or they'll put you in the guard house(11)." We then starting walking faster in order to catch up with Bobby, Leper, and Chet. On our way he trusted his hip into me forcing me to the ground, he put his knees on my chest and i had no way of escaping. This is one of the reasons why i like Gene, hes a tough kid and i respect that in his personality. By this time we both knew that we were going to be late for dinner. When we got back to the room after missing our dinner we read our assignments. Gene was halfway through his book, "Tess of the D'Urbervilles", while i was struggling on "Far from the Madding Crowd. We had an illegal radio in the room which had to be turned down softly but we were able to hear the news. The lights around the school began to turn off one bye one. Gene and I undressed, he got into pajamas but i didn't because they are nonmilitary.
