Character Sketch for Finny in Essay

Finny succeeded to draw a circle of truth around himself that made him credible and put him above any intention of punishment whatsoever. His unique behavior and his style brought a breath of fresh air into the old school especially because "the Devon Faculty had never before experienced a student who combined a calm ignorance of the rules with a winning urge to be good, who seemed to love the school truly and deeply, and never more than when he was braking the regulation, model boy who was the most comfortable in the truant's corner" (idem). For all that, Finny unconsciously paved the way to perdition for his friend, Gene. He uncovered the feeling of envy in his best buddy that further led to suspicion and ended in indirect murder. As a result, Gene made Finny fall from the tree while exercising their dangerous jumps into the river, leading to his leg being fractured. The injury was fatal for Finny's athletic career and put him definitively out of the play. Even so, Finny did not stop to ponder. He simply changed his focus from himself to his friend, Gene, whom he wanted to prepare for the 1944 Olympics regardless of the Second World War that was currently being fought.In contrast with the fact that "the school is involved in everything that happens in the war, it's all the same war and the same world"(Knowles, 27), Finny lives in a world of fantasy and drags all those round him into it. "Bombs in Central Europe were completely unreal to us [...] because our place here was too fair for us to accept something like that" (idem, 30). The reader found out at some point that it was not just because the boys discovered an efficient way of prolonging their happy careless childhood, but also because Finny's personal intereste in enlisting in the army subsequently followed by his failure to do so. His way of setting his own rules, disregarding the conventional ways and always getting away with it proved that "Finny's life was ruled by inspiration and anarchy"(idem, 34), yet it led to his own death.

Works Cited

Knowles, John. A Separate….....