Have your character make a journal entry that includes the latest happenings in their lives. Also make reference to their feelings on the war and a description of the winter carnival. Your characters thoughts may not always be clearly stated, so you will need to make inferences.
Gene is starting to feel peace with Finny after that accident. He is finding his inner peace when he is basically training with Finny. On page 115 Gene says, “This was my first but not my last lapse into Finney’s vision of peace.” I thought that Quote was very reveling to what Gene was feeling inside before he knew Finny was mad at him. Gene is still shocked about the reason why Finny isn’t mad at him for breaking his leg. It feels like I am not that important because no one cared about the loosing of my cap. On page 118 there is a quote that made Leper feel not so important. “But the disappearing tail of leper’s cap inspired no one.” Then there was a place on page 118 where it says, “A rumor in the newspaper about an attempt on Hitlers life. That was a leper of course.” That brought me out so much and so that people would realize that I am here and friendly. The reason I say that was this quote “we were all at our funniest about leper, and we all secretly hoped that leper, and we all secretly hoped that leper was incompetent, was as heroic as we said.” I found that quote very profound because leper is now being recognized as a hero but he started out as no body knowing him very well. It seems like Leper is now getting more into the book and into the war, Leper is doing more things like on page 118 it says, “The Tunisian campaign became Lepers Liberation.” My theory on the winter carnival is that Finny gets really into it because he loves winter and he thinks winter loves him. The quote on page 102 says, “The winter loves me,” and also Finny wanted to skip class to go to the Winter Carnival. that is how much Finny wants to go and he told Gene to go with him but yet no one knew about there little plan.
ReplyDeleteThings have changed, I have changed, and people around me have changed too. Ever since I left Devon things have been rolling slowly into one big snowball of uncomfortable lack of home comforts. The army is a strange place, and yet they seem to know that. They have made me look at life like I never had before; I have realized things that I never had before. And yet, I can not feel things the same way ever again. I am always so tired, but they do not let me sleep. I fall asleep when I am not supposed to, but never at night. At night I have to remain in my right mind, for if I don’t the images clouding my vision will sharpen and engulf me in their strangeness. There is a man that sleeps next to me, and he has a terrible cough. At night it sounds like he will throw up his stomach and this is one of the reasons I remain awake. I am always hungry, although not at the right times. I can not eat in the mess hall, which is where we are supposed to. The army has the right name for everything, don’t they? The images are always near me, threatening to never disappear. I see things, men and women combined, people who switch faces, pictures that I could never describe, and the whole time I am thinking, am I different? Is this normal? Does everyone have these visions? And then just when I thought I could not bear to be in the arm any longer, they threw me out. It would have not been that bad, except it was on section eight. They called me psycho, that’s what that means, psycho! They think I’m a loony, they think I should be locked away, and now thanks to them and their section eight, everyone does. I sent Gene a telegram, hoping and praying that he would console me, that he would tell me I was not a psycho, and yet when he arrived he looked at me the same way as everyone else does. And it was in that instance that I knew he had, as I had suspected, pushed Finny out of that tree so long ago. I tried to explain to Gene, tried to make him understand, but I am afraid that the war has turned to into someone no one can understand, a psycho.
ReplyDeleteIt all started the day that man showed us the video of the ski troops. On that day I decided to enlist in those troops. I left on a dreary winter day, with barely anyone watching me leave. I went to a military base, where life was dull and boring. We spent day after day doing the same routine, over and over. That all ended when one day that man’s face changed into Finny’s. Then it changed into Gene’s, and then Brinker’s. I was already freaking out when his face turned into a woman’s. I was yelling for everyone else to come see this when the broom the man was sleeping with changed into a leg. Nobody else saw a thing however, and I heard rumors I was going to be given a section eight discharge.
ReplyDeleteI escaped the day after that incident. I headed to m family’s house, and sent Gene a telegraph telling him where I was. A few days later, he arrived. We were talking and then Gene jumped me. We fought for a little bit but my mother stopped us. Then we ate dinner and then we went for a walk. Gene and I talked about what happened at the base. When I started talking about how I might really be psycho Gene stormed off. I returned home and went to bed, a place full of nightmares.
Finny has been different ever since he started back at Devon, but he is warming back up to all the commotion and the everyday living again. So far in chapter 9, Finny hasn’t had that big of a part, but you know he is still there. When they are talking about who does what for the winter carnival, on page 122, you know he is still there, because they want him to organize the sports and ski jumping. To me, Finny doesn’t seem like he is one hundred percent in the book anymore, he has separated himself so people can’t see what is going on with him. You know that little details about him and what he is doing, but you can’t tell what is going through his life at the moment. In the book for chapters nine and ten, Phinny isn’t really in it, so when the others, like Gene and Leper are talking, it’s mostly them in the last chapter of our reading. You can tell that Phinny is ok about the winter carnival and he does want a little part in it. I can’t answer his feelings about the war because there wasn’t enough information.
ReplyDeleteBrinker, entry 2
ReplyDeleteI swear, the world's gone upside down. Leper, who would have seen that coming? It doesn’t even see real, Leper in the service. There was an article in the paper, about some attempt on Hitler’s life. “That was Leper of course” I remember saying. Now it won’t stop, everything in the paper on the war is Leper, more of Leper. And yet, we all know it’s not him, and it just makes the war even more unreal, even trying to picture Leper with a gun. I gave up on enlisting; in fact I think I’ve given up on everything. I quit on responsibilities and I’m darn happy about it. Then Phineas wants to have a “Winter Carnival”. It’s a ridiculous idea of course, what is there to celebrate about winter? But hey, I figure I’m done with responsibility, so I might as well to go all out. I helped get the whole thing together, with this bunch of fools, couldn’t turn around without having to tell someone what to do. Then Phineas who was supposed to be organizing this whole thing anyways won’t answer when we need to know what to do. Then, with only two words from Phineas, I’m attacked by a mob of cider-thirsty barbarians. What’s wrong with making a line and waiting your turn? I thought my job was to and out cider, but I guess I’m the punch bag. Besides that the carnival was amazing, gene, that show off fool, tried every crazy thing Phineas could come up with. It was rather entertaining, actually. Then the showoff gets a letter for Guess who, Leper, of all people. Only two seconds after he reads it the funs all off. Darn Leper, that spoiler.
It feels like there is peace between Finny and I after the tree falling. He cant play sports ever again and I feel really bad for him. I never meant to cause this kind of harm. Finny was kind of weird at first coming back to Devon, but he has started to be comfortable with all the commotion and everyday living so far. It seems he is not one-hundred percent but he is trying his best. He is helping out with things like the winter carnival and trying to get back in the routine of being at Devon.
ReplyDeleteI had a great idea one day. The Devon Winter Carnival. It would be great. There would be prizes, sports and snow statues. I controlled the sports, Brinker handled the food. Gene handled the snow statues. We needed a decorator. That would be Leper. Wait Leper went to the army. Poor boy he doesn’t get that there is no war and no army. Well we would just have to find someone else to be a decorator. We lit one of the prizes and the carnival began. Soon all the cider was gone. We where just about to hand out the prizes and then I was handed a telegram for Gene. I was about to read the telegram. I was in shock. It was from Leper.
ReplyDeleteThe carnival was horrible. All I wanted was the damn cider! I think that was the only good part about the stupid carnival. It was worth browbeating those lowerclassmen. Well, browbeating lowerclassmen is fun by itself. But then Gene got a telegram from I was shocked to see it, it was from Leper. Gene said stuff about him, but, I don’t know what’s going on though. Damn that war! Damn Hitler! Look at what the war and Hitler have done to Leper. I cant even picture Leper in the war, with a gun.
ReplyDeleteThe winter carnival was average, but it was still fun. Gene thought that I should organize skiing and sport. I think I should because if I can’t do sports maybe I should run them. Gene drank a lot of cider and than jumped Leper. That was pretty cool. Although, I don’t know what’s going on with Gene, he seems kind of weird. Maybe it’s because of the war. Man I don’t like anything about this war. I wish nobody was talking about it because I can’t do it with my broken leg. I wish people would just leave this war alone.
ReplyDeletePhineas
So many thoughts were running through my mind, the day I was shown the ski troops. A myriad of emotions swept over me. I couldn't take it anymore, I was going to enlist. The day came for me to leave, the clouds seemed to share my sadness. The air was dreary and depressing. A perfect day for war I thought. I arrive with a sense of deserving. That was quickly stripped from me by the drill sergent. Every day it seems like we are doing the same drills. Days pass but they are starting to blend together, its hard for me to discern yesterday from today. I was discharged so I return home and sent a telegraph to Gene telling him where I was. We went for a walk after having cider and he beat me up. My mom stepped in and broke us up. We had dinner and talked for a little while.
ReplyDeleteIt seams that Finny has forgiven me for jouncing the branch. Even thought Finny has been acting really strange since he came back. I didn’t mean to hurt him, but he seems to be ok with the cast. Every thing is going back to normal with Finny here going to school the only thing that changed was that Leper went into the army. Finny and I are going to help out with the Winter Carnival. The only thing is that were going to make it better than it’s been before. I got a letter from Leper that he has escaped
ReplyDeleteJournal Entry 2:
ReplyDeletePhineas has returned, and, in his stupidity, is denying the war. I feel so stuck hear, these idiots in such ignorance. And Leper, who has beaten me to enlist. Gene, my God, what an idiot. This absurd "Winter Carnival," which just became an event to bully me. These people, how futile they are here.
The war, that's all that everybody talks about anymore. I've become very confused about it, with everyone thinking abut enlisting, and then Phineas insisting that it's not even real. Before he came back I had seriously been thinking about enlisting with Brinker. I'll never forget the look of shock Phineas had had when he heard that I might enlist. It made me feel like he needed me, I never thought He would. Then he got the idea of a Winter Carnival. I liked it, and i can't believe how into it Brinker got. He's almost changed.. But then I got the telegram from Leper. What did he escape fr om, what's going on? I'm worried.
ReplyDelete-April
This comment has been removed by the author.
ReplyDelete