Quote Significance Ch. 8&9

Chapter 8:


Quote: "I mean as much as you can say a season can love. What I mean is, I love winter, and when you really love something, then it loves you back, in whatever way it has to love."(111)


Significance: This quote is significant because it shows how Finny views his and Gene's relationship. Finny believes the way he feels about Gene is the way Gene feels about him. Because Finny likes Gene, Gene has to like him back because when you really love something, it loves you back. I think this quote just shows how Finny really feels about their friendship and how much he cares and loves for Gene.

Question: What is going to ruin their friendship?


Chapter 9:

Quote: "He drew me increasingly away from the Butt Room crowd, away from Brinker and Chet and all other friends, into a world inhabited by just himself and me, where there was no war at all, just Phineas and me alone among all the people of the world, training for the Olympics of 1944."(127)

Significance: This quote is significant because it seems like Gene thinks Finny doesn't want him to have other friends. Gene has to obey Finny's demands or else. That is kind of what it seems like, but maybe Finny is getting a little jealous himself now. He may only be jealous now because Gene can play sports, anddo all these things and he can't. Now Finny wants Gene all to himself because he's jealous?

Question: What is going to happen to Leper?

Quote Significance Ch. 7

Quote: "I grabbed the knob and swung open the door. He was seated in my chair at the desk, bending down to adjust the gross encumbrance of his leg, so that only the familar ears set close against his head were visible, and his short-cut brown hair. He looked up with a provocative grin, 'Hi pal, where's the brass band?' Everything that had happened throughout the day faded like the first false snowfall of the winter. Phineas was back."

Significance: I picked this quote because I feel it has meaning and I know it is very long, but I don't think Gene was really expecting Finny to come back so soon or even at all for that matter. I really don't think that he wanted him to come back because he doesn't want to have to see what he had done to his bestfriend. Honestly, I think he just wants to run away from what he did and from the past because he is ashamed and feels guilty of what happened.

Question: When will Gene start really telling the truth and really man up to what he had done?

ASP Quote Significance Ch. 6

Quote: Listen, pal, if I can't play sports, you're going to play them for me." (85)

Significance: I think the significance here is that even though Gene doesn't want to play sports because of the guilt he feels for keeping his bestfriend from playing his sports Finny wants Gene to play sports for him. Finny understands he can't play football anymore or any other sport he loves he wants Gene to enjoy them for him. Finny is still not understanding that Gene was not lying about purposely making him fall. I don't think Finny wants to believe it so he avoids it, but why?

Question: Why does Finny avoid and not believe the fact that Gene admitted that he intentionally jump on the branch to make him fall?

Quote Significance Ch. 5

Quote: "I tried, you remember? I reached out but you were gone, you went down through those little branches underneath, and when I reached out there was only air."(65)
Significance: Liar! Gene is so jealous of Finny. This quote makes Gene look ridiculous. He's lying to his "best friends" face if he was really his best friend then why would he lie to his face. Finny can't even play sports anymore because of Gene and he is sitting there lying to him. This really shows that jealous can take over a person's actions because he really let his bestfriend fall out of a tree from a high branch that's the stupidest thing anyone could ever do. Gene needs to stop trying to be someone else and working on being himself.
Question: Why does jealousy take over a person so much to the point where they seriously hurt someone?

ASP Quote Significance for Chapter 4

Quote: "The way that I believed that you're-my-best-friend blabber! The shadow falling across his face if I didn't want to do something with him! His instinct for sharing everything with me? Sure, he wanted to share everything with me, especially his procession of D's in every subject. That way he, the athlete, would be way ahead of me. It was all cold trickery, it was all calculated, it was all enmity."(53)
Significance: Gene is being way to jealous of Finny right now. This quote is significant because Gene finally figures out something he's better at then Finny and Finny is not even a jerk about it or anything, he might even me proud of Gene. Gene turns it around that Finny is only trying to sarcastically say he is jealous of Gene to hide that he really is jealous of Gene. Gene is being over dramatic about it and taking it to far with the whole I has to be better then Finny at something. The jealousy is taking over Gene's actions and it's just making everything go wrong.
Question: Is it Gene's fault that Finny had fallen out of the tree?

A Separate Peace Quote Significance for Chs 2&3

Chapter 2:
Quote: "He had gotten away with everything. I felt a sudden stab of disappointment. That was because I just wanted to see some more excitement; that must have been it."(28)
Significance: This quote is significant because we already know Gene is jealous of Finny, but is that why there friendship starts to suffer? I believe that this quote is foreshadowing that Gene's jealous will one day be expressed to Phineas and there will be a down fall of the great friendship they have because of it. Gene is getting very frustrated with that fact that Phineas gets away with everything and he wishes that Phineas will one day get introuble.
Question: Why does Gene let Phineas push him around?

Chapter 3:
Quote: "I should have told him then that he was my bestfriend also, and rounded off what he had said. I started to; I nearly did. But something held me back. Perhaps I was stopped by that level of feeling, deeper than thought, which contains the truth."(48)
Significance: This quote is significant because I think Gene is starting to realize there is more to how he feels about his "bestfriend" Finny. He wants to tell himself that Finny is his bestfriend, but is that really the truth? I think that in the future Gene will tell Phineas how he really feels about how he treats him and Phineas isn't going to like what is said.
Question: Why is Gene afraid to stand up to Phineas if they're "bestfriends"?

Quote Significance and Characterizing two main characters

"I never backed away from anything in my life!"(18)
This quote is significant because it is kind of like Gene has to prove himself to Finny. He has to prove that he isn't afraid to jump off a high tree branch into water to be Finny's bestfriend. Gene maybe afraid to back away from something Finny is pressuring him to do because he doesn't want Finny to think wrong of him. This quote could be foreshadowing Gene telling Finny he is not doing the crazy idea he has, and it could some how ruin there friendship.

Why are people after to stand up to their friends when they are pressuring them?

Phineas:
1. Athletic
2. Pushy
3. Daredevil
4. Crazy
5. Intimidating
"If I do it, you're going to do it, aren't you?"(16)

Narrator:
1. Peer pressured
2. Follower
3. Trustworthy
4. Timid
5. Uptight
"What was I doing up here anyway? Why did I let Finny talk me into stupid things like this? Was he geting some kind of hold over me?"(17)