Journal 5

After the accident with Finny, no one was allowed to go near the infirmary. There were many rumors going around about what happened to Finny's leg. Then the actual diagnosis came out: a shattered leg. Not sprained, not broken, not fractured, completley shattered. People came up asking me about Finny, but I knew just as much as they did. But from what I know, I was the only one who knew that I caused the accident. I had no idea if Finny knew it happened because of me. I couldn't stand hearing about it anymore, so I quarantined myself in our room. All I did was try to get rid of all the thoughts I had, to forget where I was, and even who I was. It felt almost as if I was the one who fell and shattered their leg. One day I was walking by the chapel and the doctor yelled to me that Finny was better. The doctor told me I could go and visit him and I asked if "I'll upset him" and he explained that I probably wouldn't and that the break wasn't the cleanest he's seen. not doneeeee

Journal 4

Hello fellow Devon School students, future students, or whomever is reading this! This is my fourth journal entry. Here we go:

Finny and I fell asleep at the beach and as I woke up, I saw dawn for the first time in my life. Aside from the sun rising, everything on the beach looked dead. Finny was still sleeping but looked more dead, the ocean looked dead with "dead gray waves hissing mordantly along the beach", and basically everything on the beach looked dead. But obviously most of the things on the beach could not be dead since they were never living to begin with. Soon after, the Sun began to rise, and little by little everything started becoming animated and lively like it had been the day before. When Finny woke up, he asked what time it was and it was around seven. He wanted to take a morning swim despite my protests, saying it was too late and we had to go back. That night I was working on trigonometry work that I caught behind on and Finny brought up that I work too hard. I told Finny that I had to pass it in order to graduate so it would behoove me to get good grades. Finny said “Nobody at Devon has ever been surer of graduating than you are…you want to be head of the class, valedictorian…” I responded with saying that somebody had to be head of the class and he knew that’s something I really wanted. Finny saw it as that I wanted to have the title of being the “smartest kid in school” and “number one”. I saw it in a completely different perspective than Finny. I saw it as Finny had all the athletic awards, and I would have the academic. With us two having these awards, we’d be considered the best students in the school.  Finny later said that it was his “job” to keep my distracted from my studies and I had a realization. Finny was trying to sabotage my studies with everything he’s been doing lately: Blitzball and the nightly meetings for the Super Suicide Society of the Summer Session. One day Finny, some of the other members and I were at the tree and Finny wanted to do a “double jump” with me. I agreed and we began climbing the tree. Finny was a branch ahead of me and I decided to get revenge on him for sabotaging my school work so I shook the branch. Finny lost his balance, fell from, the tree, and landed hard and awkwardly on the bank next to the river. Right after, I climbed up to the branch he was on and jumped into the river.

Journal 3

The Super Suicide Society of the Summer Session was probably the greatest success story I've been apart of in my entire life. Whenever we talked about it, we thought of it as some above-everything-else group that everyone knew about and wanted to be apart of. Even though it was the exact opposite, we liked to think it was what we thought. Every night we held meetings to initiate new members. At each meeting the Charter Members, Phineas and I would start them off by climbing up the tree and jumping into the river. Everytime I went to jump in the river, it felt like I was doing something so dangerous, but i did it anyway to feel rebelious. Finny could have been decribed as an anarchist, as he lived by the rules that he came up with. The rules that others had made like the ones made by the faculty at the Devon School did not apply to Finny's lifestyle. Since the Super Suicide Society of the Summer Session was a club we met regularly every night. I never missed a meeting and honestly I never wanted to miss one. The only thing that Finny cared about more than the club were sports. He always said "you always win a sports".

Journals 1 and 2

My name is Gene and I was a former student at Devon School. Devon School is a beautiful private school located in a small town which happens to be located in the middle of nowhere. Devon School is considered to be one of the, if not the, best schools in New England. It could even be one of the best in the country. Around the school there were vast landscapes full of trees, playing fields, and many other things. Devon School was mostly known for its athletic programs. Some of the sports Devon School had were football, baseball, lacrosse, and soccer.  Like at every school, you have to have your best friends, and my best friend was Phineas. Everyone called him Finny for short. Finny was one of the most athletic kids at our school. Finny and I went past the playing fields one day and found an dark, enormous, and intimidating tree. The tree stood right next to a river. Finny wanted to climb this gargantuan tree and jump in the water of the river. No one in our class, the Upper-Middlers, had ever attempted to jump out of the tree. But Finny always wanted to be the first. It's who he was. Finny jumped out of the tree claiming it was his "contribution to the war effort". Finny had the ability to persuade us quite easily so he got us all to jump out too. We all decided to skip dinner and it was noticed. Mr. Prud'homme gave us a visit and Finny told him that we were swimming in the river, that we wrestled, and kept going on and on and on. Mr. Prud'homme went on to say "if you hadn't missed nine meals in the last two weeks" and Finny stopped him mid-sentence and told him the real reason we missed the meal was because that we had to jump out of the tree claiming that it was in order to get ready for the war in case they dropped the draft age to seventeen. Prud'homme laughed it off and did not seem to mind. He then noticed Finny's emblem, a pink hankerchief, and was baffled about it. Finny told him it was an emblem so people can identify him. Later on, Finny found out about the sports for the Summer Session and was furious about Badminton being one of them. This gave him the idea to create a new game. It was called Blitzball. The most surprising thing about Blitzball was how popular it became. It seemed like almost everyone at Devon started playing it. The next day we were at the swimming pool and Finny pointed out that no one from our class had attempted to break the swimming record. This gave him the idea to go and break it without ever swimming for records. Finny went out and broke the record by .7 seconds.

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