... learned to know when Finny was present. With the lack of Finny's reality the reality of war begins to seep into Devon. As school goes on winter comes around, and two hundred boys are recruited to shovel snow off the railroad yards as part of the war effort. Then later on in the same chapter Brinker announces, "I"m giving it up, I"m going to enlist. Tommorow." This is ... just the beginning of war starting to seep into Devon. "Five of the younger teachers were missing, gone into the war. Mr. Pike had come in his Naval ensign's uniform ... proven to us that there is a war and that it can...

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• Grade Level: High School