A seperate peace
...his invention of the blitz ball and the “Super Suicide Society of the Summer Session” (15). Also with his best friend Gene, he breaks many rules, which include skipping class and going to the beach to increase his fun during the blithe summer. Furthermore, because of Finny’s charm, many of the teachers are lenient and even allow him to wear his school tie as a belt to one of the traditional school events. This session of school shows the innocence and youth of Finny. The summer had symbolized virtue and early life and comes to an end with Finny’s actual fall, which ushers in the winter session. The winter session is considered to be dark, disciplined and full of diligence. It symbolizes the encroaching burdens of adulthood and wartime, the latter which intrudes increasingly on the Devon campus. The winter session is considered to be a stricter time with the masters and the class leaders trying to enforce the rules and regulations of Devon school. Finny is no longer in school, and the students don’t carry their carefree attitudes; Gene becomes like the winter session by saving a cold blast for the enemy. The winter lives to destroy the warmth of the summer and unleashes an unpredictable blizzard. Likewise, Gene destroys Finny by releasing an uncontrolled jouncing of the tree limb, which consequently leads to Finny’s death bringing great sorrow. In the summer the students had the thought of “what Devon owes us”; however, during the winter the student’s thought changed to “what we owe Devon” (65). Together the two seasons represent the shift from innocence to evil. The theme of spitefulness towards Finny is displayed through the Assembly Hall trial and the marble staircase incident. The Assembly Hall in which Gene’s trial takes place is symbolic. Brinker, a classmate, leads Gene’s peers into the hall to find out the truth about the night of Finny’s accident. Gene denied the fact that he shook the limb on purpose but his peers then begin to doubt his innocence. Towards the end of the trial, Finny has a sudden outburst and says “I just don’t care. Nevermind” (168). Finny’s cries and outbursts cause his second injury, which occurred on the marble staircase and was rooted in Gene’s confess...