Differences Between Gene Forester And Phineas

A Separate Piece

Gene Forester and Phineas were typical teenagers just like all of us, trying distinguish themselves from the herd. The only difference between them and us is that they try to resolve it in a much more radical way of being Such as The Super Suicide Society of the Summer Session. Gene was always the best in his class academically, together with Chett Douglas. Throughout the story he changed a lot in some aspects such as his way of thinking, transformed pleasure into deception and pain, his perception of his relationship with Finny and the most important of them all, he discovered the truth.

At the beginning of the story Gene was completely focused in his academics and didn’t care so much for girls and sports. Finny was the

As mentioned previously, Gene felt a satisfactory and tremendous well being after Finny’s fall, which later on evolved into tremendous self-rage and regret. This feeling mutation occurred because Finny was also better than him in everything (except academics) and was also much more popular."He had never been jealous of me for a second. Now I knew that there never was and never could have been any rivalry between us. I was not of the same quality as he. I couldn’t stand this. . . . Holding firmly to the trunk, I took a step toward him, and then my knees bent and I jounced the limb. Finny, his balance gone, swung his head around to look at me for an instant with extreme interest, and then he tumbled sideways, broke through the little branches below and hit the bank with a sickening, unnatural thud. It was the first clumsy physical action I had ever seen him make. With unthinking sureness I moved out on the limb and jumped into the river, every trace of my fear of this forgotten."(Knowles 52) In my opinion, Gene didn’t entirely feel regret after tripping him over and making him unable to practice sports again. Gene’s heart was feeling bad for having done that because, although it didn’t look like, he actually liked Finny; however, his brain felt relieved for

When Finny got him out of his study-time to jump-off the tree he thought that he was being treacherous and sly to take a step-forward on their interior “battle”."What was I doing up here anyway? Why did I let Finny talk me into stupid things like this? Was he getting some kind of hold over me?" (Knowles 67). Later on in the story they were lying down at the beach while dumping classes and Finny announced to Gene that he was his best friend and that he really liked him. At that point, Gene was beginning to realize that there was no war between them but yes an alliance, however his mind refused to accept this hypothesis. At the point that him and Finny were going to jump off the tree together he was still thinking that there was a war between them and the Finny was always better than him; for example, when Finny used the school uniform tie as a belt and he got away with it because in his mind finny was loved by all and he was hated. Moments after Finny “fell” from the tree he felt a satisfactory and relieving feeling; however, when these moments passes he deeply regretted his action and couldn’t make up for it. The next minutes or so he finally realized that there was no rivalry between the both of them but yes, love. "I threw my hip against his, catching him by surprise, and he was instantly down,