Allegory
What type of allegorical character is Finny?
a. the hero
b. the sage
c. the explorer
d. the innocent youth
d. the innocent youth
skiing, snowball fights, Blitzball, Olympic training, swimming all represent this motif.
Athletics
What does Gene's character represent?
a. the pure innocence of childhood
b. the glory of competition
c. the darker side of human nature
darker side of human nature
Gene must confront the reality of what he has done, feels remorse and wants to make it up to Finny. What theme does this reflect?
Change and Growing Up
“I felt that I was not, never had been and never would be a living part of this overpoweringly solid and deeply meaningful world around me.”
Who said it and when? What theme?
Identity
Gene said this when Finny fell for a second time
What type of allegorical character is Gene?
a. the innocent youth
b. the villain
c. the struggling hero
d. the ruler
c. the struggling hero
What theme does the motif of athletics relate to and what is it used to show or highlight?
Rivalry; highlights how Finny sees it as pure enjoyment and escape from real world, while Gene can't comprehend why Finny wouldn't want to be competitive, especially when he breaks the record
Devon in summer represents
a place of peace "Garden of Eden" in the allegorical sense
To what theme does the following quote relate?
The joking manner was a screen; I believed him…. My brain exploded. He minded, despised the possibility that I might be the head of the school.
Rivalry
Gene realizes war is caused by...
something ignorant in the human heart
What type of allegorical character is Leper? Name one comment from page 124 or 125 that would reflect this type of character.
a. SCAPEGOAT: takes the blame; outcast
b.EXPLORER: Independence and fulfillment; wants the freedom to find out who you are through exploring the world.
c. THE SAGE: Wise person. The truth will set you free; wants to find the truth.
b. explorer
"it's like a test and only the things and people who've been evolving the right way survive"
There are two seasons used as a motif. What motif do they represent? What are these seasons symbolic of?
a. winter and fall; athletics; represent rivalry to fun
b. summer and winter; transformations; carefree peace to rules and wartime
c. fall and spring; growing into manhood; initiation
b. summer and winter; transformations; carefree peace to rules and wartime
the tree represents
fall from innocence
"All of them, all except Phineas, constructed at infinite cost to themselves these Maginot Lines against an enemy they thought they saw across the frontier, this enemy who had never attacked that way—if he ever attacked at all; if he was indeed the enemy. "
Who said it? What theme is it?
WAR
Most people create their enemies out of fear, often seeing the wrong people as enemies or seeing enemies where none exists, and in doing so, they hurt themselves in trying to fight these imagined enemies.
“What I mean is, I love winter, and when you really love something, then it loves you back, in whatever way it has to love.”
Who said it? What theme does it reflect?
Finny; friendship
If Gene is the struggling hero, what is his journey?
a. to travel Europe in the war
b. to return back to Devon as an adult and reflect
c. his journey is psychological
c. his journey is psychological;
he feels remorse, feels an obligation ethically to heal the damage he’s done, thus losing his innocence and thrust into world of adults
most of the boys undergo this motif EXCEPT Finny
boys to men
(awareness of good and evil existing in the world and in themselves)
all people must find a enemy represents what symbol?
How does this influence the boys?
war; once they realize this, they have lost their naive innocence and entered adulthood
“Listen, pal, if I can’t play sports, you’re going to play them for me,” and I lost part of myself to him then, and a soaring sense of freedom revealed that this must have been my purpose from the first: to become a part of Phineas."
What theme?
Identity
the bone marrow killing Finny is symbolic. How so?
it was his own innocence that did not allow him to see Gene for who he truly was, nor the real world, thus making him victim
How does the tree represent an allegorical situation?
a. THE JOURNEY: character takes a physical or emotional journey to understand his personality and nature of the world
b. THE INITIATION: The main character undergoes experiences that lead him to maturity
c. GOOD VS. EVIL: a clash of forces with those that represent goodness with that represent evil.
d. THE FALL: a character falls from grace or innocence as a result of his or her own action
b. initiation: The main character undergoes experiences that lead him to maturity
AND
d. the fall: a character falls from grade or innocence as a result of his or her own action
Name one action that Gene does that reflects the theme of "blurred identities"
puts on Finny's pink shirt
trains for the Olympics
The two rivers are symbolic. What do Devon and Naguamsett represent?
Devon is clean and clear; it represents innocence and a place of fun.
Naguamsett; is marshy, dark, and unpredictable, and Gene fights Quackenbush there; it represents war
"It struck me that I was injuring him again.."
Friendship
What is Finny a symbol of?
A. Hatred
B. Envy
C. Peace
D. Love
c. peace