The war encouraged Finny and the others to prepare for the war ahead of them. Finny created two games to imitate the real war. The first one was the “The Super Suicide Society of the Summer Session.” It was the “entrenched institution of the Devon school” (pg.25) and “They signed up as ‘trainees’ on the s

“I never killed anybody and I never developed an intense level of hatred for the enemy. Because my war ended before I ever put on a uniform; I was on active duty all my time at school; I killed my enemy there.” (pg.196)

pot.” (pg.25). It was like a real war institution for training soldiers to jump of boats or planes that were about to get bombed. The second game was called Blitzball. During its invention Bobby Zane said, “Let’s make it have something to do with the war.” (pg.29). 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. So Finny invented these two games to substitute the war.

Finny was affected by the war the most, after he had broken his leg. Even thought he tried to hide it by making the Separate Peace, in which he and Gene practiced for Olympics. But after the second break he figures out that he can’t get enlisted with a broken leg anywhere. So he regrets by saying,

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Bobby Zane, Peace Gene, Gene Finny, Summer Session”, World War, Exeter Academy, John Knowles, , Prep School, reality war, real war, broken leg, war devon, school war, “separate peace”, gene finny, devon war, killed enemy, quote killed,