They are always jumping from a tree into the river to get the "courage" they need to go to the war, and so the two of them form a club called the Super Suicide Society of the Summer Session. ... When he landed, he had broken his leg. ... Finny, with his shattered leg, goes home. ... He explains and says that some morrow from the broken leg must have been released into the bloodstream and gone to the heart killing Finny immediately. ... The significance of the title A Separate Peace is that there are two wars going on. ...

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One day Finny and Gene decided to go to the river and do a dangerous stunt which was to jump of a limb into a river. ... Finny told Gene that it wasnt his fault and it was nonsense to think it was During the time World War II was going on the forces are recruiting people. ... When Leper returns Gene goes to visit him at his home. ... Leper brings up the incident of Finny shattering his leg. ... Finny couldnt take hearing that and he ran out of the room and fell down the steps, breaking his leg again. ...

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Gene wants to get involved in sports so he can be more like Finny was before he broke his leg. ... Finny falls off of the tree branch during a routine jump with Gene and breaks his leg. ... When Gene goes to visit Finny in his own home, Finny seems much more mature and seems like he has grown up. ... Brinks goes from being highly involved in class politics, to shunning his duty as a school politician. Leper goes off to war and comes back nearly insane. ...

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Gene wants to get involved in sports so he can be more like Finny was before he broke his leg. ... Finny falls off of the tree branch during a routine jump with Gene and breaks his leg. ... When Gene goes to visit Finny in his own home, Finny seems much more mature and seems like he has grown up. ... Brinks goes from being highly involved in class politics, to shunning his duty as a school politician. Leper goes off to war and comes back nearly insane. ...

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So Finny invents this game which is something like football, where you knock the enemy with the ball, just like the real war where you also go after your enemy. ... Finny was affected by the war the most, after he had broken his leg. ... But after the second break he figures out that he can't get enlisted with a broken leg anywhere. ... In this quote he finally says that there is a war on, and he admits this because he says that he can't take it, because he has a broken leg and at the same time, there is this war going on. ...

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At this time World War II was going on and Francis Bacon moved to Berlin with his uncle who seemed to be his lover at the time. ... It had some very big ears right next to its mouth, and a visible leg that resembled more of a table leg rather than one of a bird. Now the leg seems to be standing on a patch of grass or something along that nature. ... That is why this animal has a human mouth, ear, and leg. ... We all seem to blame things on other when things go wrong, but in reality we are all to blame. ...

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Later that day, they skip dinner to go swimming in the river, by Finny's choice, and are asked where they were on return. ... This was done at Finny's request, Gene was going to study for a test, but he felt that he can't say no to Finny so hey went. ... When at the tree, he was still sore at Finny and when he was about to jump, Gene shook the limb, Finny Lost balance, fell and shattered his leg. ... Gene knows that he has broken Finny's leg, it is all his fault, his best friend can never play sports again because of him. ... Finny had gon...

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Later that day, they skip dinner to go swimming in the river, by Finny's choice, and are asked where they were on return. ... This was done at Finny's request, Gene was going to study for a test, but he felt that he can't say no to Finny so hey went. ... When at the tree, he was still sore at Finny and when he was about to jump, Gene shook the limb, Finny Lost balance, fell and shattered his leg. ... Gene knows that he has broken Finny's leg, it is all his fault, his best friend can never play sports again because of him. ... Finny had gone home for a time because of his sh...

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No animal shall drink alcohol No animal shall wear clothes No animal shall sleep in a bed No animal shall kill a fellow four-footed creature Those that go upon four legs or wings are friends The two-legged are the enemy Too soon, however, the pigs, who have styled themselves leaders by virtue of their intelligence, succumb to the temptations of privilege and power....

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Only the guilt built up by Finny into Gene made him go. ... Finny hit the ground under the tree with a loud thud, the fall ended up breaking his leg. ... Leper was one that would go off on his own and do his own things. ... Going through war caused Leper to realize a few things about himself, that he wasn't fit for war and he was going crazy. ... Many people believed he didn't believe in war because he wasn't able to participate in it due to his injured leg. ...

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After that battle the men count goes from 80 to 32. ... Paul is given 17 days of leave from the Army to go home and visit his family. ... At the end of his visit, he goes to train near a Russian prison. ... Paul returns and goes to battle. ... Paul goes through surgery and Kropp has his leg amputated. ...

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He tells of gruesome stories about furniture turning into body parts, a woman's head on a man's body, a corporal approaching him with a leg in his hand. ... He immaturely believes that there is no war going on, due to the fact that he cannot participate in the war. ... I was going to keep on saying it until two seconds after I got a letter from Ottawa or Chungking or some place saying "Yes, you can enlist with us" Then there would have been a war." ... He proceeds to scurry out of the room as fast as he can, in order to avoid publicly discovering that his best friend broke his leg....

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When he first enters the story Paul is very enthusiastic about going to the war. ... Kropp's leg soon had to be amputated at the thigh. After a few more weeks Paul and Kropp parted, Paul going to war and Kropp going home. ... When Kropp and Paul were injured and sent to a hospital then his leg was amputated. ... As the war goes on Paul and his friends become weary, wore out, even matured too soon. ...

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Kemmerich is the second one of the boys to die; his leg is amputated prior to his death. ... Baumer is soon granted a leave to go home, even though he feels guilty and doesn't want to leave. ... Baumer fully recovers, but Kropp has to have his leg amputated. ...

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Finny no longer can play sports because his leg was shattered. ... "Then these separate sounds collided into the general tumult of his body clumsily falling down the white marble stairs "(109) Finny had fallen down the steps which causes Finny to re-break his leg and he ends up dying from the bone marrow going to his heart. ...

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He is referring to the anguish that he was forced to go through during his days at Devon, and ended up with him killing his best friend. ... His paralyzation leads to his death when he falls down the stairs and breaks his leg another time. ...

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Friends and family leave to go to America, but the author's mother doesn't want to go. ... The father leaves to go into hiding. ... The girls are concerned that the lack of exercise will make their legs wobble. ... The visit goes very well. ... The Oostervelds's home are going to be search by the Germans. ...

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Friends and family leave to go to America, but the author's mother doesn't want to go. ... The father leaves to go into hiding. ... The girls are concerned that the lack of exercise will make their legs wobble. ... The visit goes very well. ... The Oostervelds's home are going to be search by the Germans. ...

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Along with blitz ball, another crazy idea struck Finny; he wanted to go to the beach. ... After that remark Finny proposed, "'Let's go to the beach,'" (Knowles 45). This trip showed how the theme escaping reality progressed throughout the story by letting them go off on their own and away from school. ... After Finny's leg shattered he suffers a great deal because he knows he can't aim for his dreams anymore. A dream of his was going to the 1944 Olympics, and since he can't participate anymore he intended on living out his dream in Gene. ...

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After a few weeks Paul goes back to the war and Kropp goes home after having his leg took off. ... With today's world and me being of age to go to war, this story was realistic and frightening to me. ...

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Finny invites Gene to go to the beach and even though Gene does not want to go, he does not feels confident enough to reject the invitation and somehow he goes to the beach. -"Let's go to the beach". ... Going there risked expulsion, destroyed the studying I was going to do for an important test the nesxt morning , blasted the reasonable amount of order I wanted to maintain in my life, and it also involved the kind of long, labored bicycle ride I hated. ... I was going to keep on saying it untill to seconds after I got a letter from Ottawa or Chungking or some place saying, "Yes , you ...

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Before the fear and the reality of war sets in on the young soldiers they are enthusiastic and happy about going off to war. ... Kemmerich is dead, Haie Westhus is dying Martens has no legs anymore, Meyer is dead, Max is dead, Beyer is dead, Hammerling is dead it is a dammable business, but what has it to do with us now - we live. (124-125 All Quiet on the Western Front) This quotation also shows how the narrator is becoming more and more desensitized by the war. ... In Catch 22 Yossarian goes AWOL meaning he simply runs away. ... The catch 22 in the novel refers to that if someone is to be...

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Frederic's leg was very badly injured because of this and was taken to one of the many hospitals in Italy. ... I will go now and bring her here."" ... - " I just go to see if there is anything new. ... I would eat quickly and go see Catherine Barkley."" ... Frederic then goes to Stresa, where he learns that his one love Catherine is stationed. ...

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When the doctor re-sets his twice-broken leg, some of the marrow in Finny's bone gets into his blood stream and stops his heart. ... Gene goes to war, but he realizes that the real war was fought during his years at the Devon School. ... Gene Forrester goes through the ages of 16, 17, and 18 during the course of the story he tells. ... People also die and go insane in the book. ...

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When the doctor re-sets his twice-broken leg, some of the marrow in Finny's bone gets into his blood stream and stops his heart. ... Gene goes to war, but he realizes that the real war was fought during his years at the Devon School. ... Gene Forrester goes through the ages of 16, 17, and 18 during the course of the story he tells. ... People also die and go insane in the book. ...

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