Theme
This is the genre of the novel--overall theme.
What is coming of age?
It makes you look like a fairy.
What is a simile?
He wears a pink shirt to the Headmaster's tea.
Who is Finny?
This world event is going on throughout the novel.
What is World War II?
This is the test that Gene fails because he and Finny go to the beach.
What is trigonometry?
This is why Gene tells Finny about the accident.
What is guilt?
We watch little lily-livered Lepellier not jump from the tree.
What is alliteration?
The crew manager who calls Gene maimed.
Who is Cliff Quackenbush?
The season and year that the story takes place--the beginning of the flashback.
What is the summer of 1942?
This is the game Finny invents.
What is blitzball?
This is the theme that Gene struggles with in regards to Finny.
What is jealousy or envy?
The tree was tremendous, an irate, steely black steeple beside the river...
What is flashback?
He goes skiing to find a beaver dam in chapter 7.
Who is Leper?
The state in which the story is set.
What is New Hampshire?
This is the school record that Finny breaks but does not want to tell anyone about it. Be specific.
What is the 100-yard freestyle?
This is why Gene puts on Finny's clothes.
What is the search for identity?
The Super Suicide Society of the Summer Session
What is alliteration
He jokingly accuses Gene of trying to kill Finny.
Who is Brinker Hadley?
This where Gene lives.
What is Dixie (Georgia)?
This is the"Shortest War Poem Ever Written" that Brinker composes.
What is "The War Is a bore?"
This is the most important of Finny's commandments.
What is "you always win at sports?"
...and he seemed from a distance to be a scarecrow left over from the growing season.
What is a metaphor?
He is Gene's only competition for valedictorian.
Who is Chet Douglas?
This is river that Gene and Finny jump into.
What is the Devon River?
These are the two things the boys at the school do to help the war effort--ch. 7.
What is pick apples and clear snow from the railroad?