Monday, April 29, 2019
Assignment #4 Briefly explain Gene’s visit to the infirmary. How does Finny act? Why? Does this feel “realistic”? How does Gene’s visit impact Finny? (Quinn)
Gene went to visit Finny in the infirmary, and finny was acting differently than usual. The visit feels realistic because gene and finny both seem different and the incident will have a lot of impact on their lives. The doctor says to gene, "Sports are finished. As a friend, I think you ought to help him face that and accept it"(63). Being done for good is a thought in every young athlete's mind when they get hurt, but some refuse to accept it. This is why Finny is acting strange, it is not only because he is on a drug, it is that he is refusing to accept his fate. Gene has one main felling while he is there in the infirmary, and that is guilt. He is guilty because he thinks he caused finny his life in athletics and will live with that guilt for the rest of his life after visiting him.
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I Agree with Quinn that the visit was realistic because it was a serious injury of it would be almost impossible for no one to feel different than from before the incident. I do disagree with Quinn because I don't think Finny was acting different because of he drug or him refusing to accept his fate, I think it's because Finny had a suspicion that Gene did it on purpose. On page 65 Finny states, "I just remember looking at your face for a second. Awfully funny expression you had, Very shocked, like you have right now"(Knowles 65). From the beginning when Gene stepped into the doors Finny had been trying to give out little sentences about Gene making him fall but not saying the whole thing, because he didn't want to accuse Gene. Finny is acting different because he saw Gene right before he fell and Gene wasn't really reaching out to grab him like how Finny caught Gene.
ReplyDeleteI agree with Quinn that this is guilt Gene will have to live with for the rest of his life, even if Finny decides to fully forgive him. As an athlete, I can testify that if someone were to ruin my career or if I ruined one of my teammate's careers I'd never forgive myself. Seeing someone get really far in something their good at and love and then seeing them never be able to do it again can be really heart breaking. I respectfully disagree with Ja'niya that the drug had nothing to do with Finny's "out of mind" state because he seems nothing like his usual self, even for someone who had just gotten his dreams shattered. When Gene visits Finny he thinks, "[His eyes] no longer had their sharp good humor, but had become clouded and visionary. After a while I realized he had been given a drug." Finny is acting different, partly because he was on the drug, hence; his eyes were clouded, but also because his career was ruined.
ReplyDeleteI actually disagree with Quinn and Ja'niya because I think that what has just happened to Finny would make him crack jokes and be in a other state that is not pure sadness and depression. When Gene walks in the infirmary Finny says: "You look worse than I do"(Knowles 64). Finny is making jokes when he just found out that he will not be able to play sports again. This is not a time to crack jokes and in this scene in particular Finny isnt in the mood that is realistic with something that changes his life and personality the way it should've.
ReplyDeleteI agree with quinn because gene did feel guilt on page 70 gene admits that he was jealous he says, "now you know what it is, because i felt that way(70)." Gene admitted and said that he was guilty but finn didn't want to believe him because he knew his "best Pal" would never do such thing.
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