Finny, the central character of the book, symbolizes Jesus in a number of ways. First, he had to die. It was predestined from the beginning. Just as Christ was without sin, and therefore the perfect saviour, Finny is without corruption from the war (which represents sin) and therefore a perfect saviour from war. He saves the boys by playing games with them, such as his favourite, blitzball, which shows them the futility of war. In the book Gene says that Fin

Just as Finny symbolizes Christ, so Gene symbolizes Judas, the betrayer of Christ. He betrays Finny by pushing him out of the tree. In the Bible, Judas sells Christ to the Pharisees for thirty pieces of silver. In the book, Gene’s mind represents the Pharisees in that it tells him that in order to obtain glory in the school, thirty pieces of silver, he must betray Finny. But just as Judas threw the money back into the temple after the deed was done and hung himself (from a tree, ironically enough), Gene throws away any hopes of glory (thereby metaphorically “throwing the silver into the temple”)when he lets his schoolwork start slipping after the accident and starts managing crew rather than excelling at a sport. He then joins the war after school. In doing this he “kills himself” by giving up to the great sin of war (

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