Why does leper enlist

Why does Gene abandon leper during their walk? What did leper see right before the army personnel grabbed him? What does Finny say caused him to fall? What does Finny apologize to genes? Did Gene shake the limb on purpose? What does Finny broken leg symbolize?

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Students pick apples because the harvesters have gone to war and they help clear the snow from the railroad tracks. How do the others treat Leper? He is looking for a beaver dam. The snowfall is like the impact of war on the students because of the insidious way it creeps up on them.

Although the boys know that the war is coming, when it finally affects them directly, they hardly notice it. Gene explains that he is planning to join the Navy in order to avoid being drafted into the infantry, while Brinker, too, has made a careful choice, deciding on the relative safety of the Coast Guard.

Later, from his adult perspective, Gene believes that his war actually ended before he ever entered military service. The United States staged two simultaneous bombing campaigns against Germany and Japan while conducting surface and submarine campaigns against all of the Axis powers. America did not win World War II alone. The real highlight of the Carnival, though, comes with Finny, who climbs up on the prize table and dances on one leg, recreating his balancing act in the canoe from the summer on the Devon.

Graceful even in injury, Finny seems once more, for this almost magical moment, a kind of god creating an imaginative world of his own, full of high spirits and joy, as he dances out a "choreography of peace. When the outside world suddenly invades with the arrival of a telegram for Gene, Finny tries, imaginatively, to transform the telegram into Gene's invitation to the Olympics — the confirmation in reality of an enduring dream.

But Gene himself opens the envelope, and any idea of the Olympics vanishes. The message, in fact, comes from Leper and urgently calls Gene to join him "at Christmas location" — an odd code name, whose very secretiveness seems to evoke the dangers of war.

As unavoidable and uncompromising as a draft notice, then, Leper's telegram brings the Winter Carnival to an end, taking Gene away from dreams of Olympic glory and Finny's world of peace. Archangel seaport in northwestern Russia, at the mouth of the Northern Dvina River. It is icebound for six months every year. Burma Road "Burma," the old name for Myanmar, country in southeast Asia on the Indochinese peninsula.

Here, the supply route for the Allies beginning in Burma and extending far into China, where American and Chinese troops fought the Japanese. Bolsheviks originally, a member of a majority faction Bolsheviki of the Russian Social Democratic Workers' Party, which formed the Communist Party after seizing power in the Revolution.

Here, Finny means the Soviet Union. Free French inhabitants of the part of France and its colonies not invaded by Germany in Ruhr river in west central Germany, flowing west into the Rhine; major coal-mining and industrial region centered in the valley of this river.

Scharnhorst a German battleship torpedoed by British destroyers and then sunk by the battleship Duke of York in December, Tunisian campaign Tunisia is a country in north Africa, on the Mediterranean.

The Tunisian campaign was the series of battles between the Allied forces and the combined German and Italian forces in North Africa January to May, Sad Sack slang a person who means well but is incompetent, ineffective, etc.

Here, the kind of person Gene fears he might become under the pressure of combat. Previous Chapter 8. Next Chapter