Sunday, May 12, 2019
Explore Brinker’s role in the trial and his motivation. Why does he does he orchestrate the trial? (Durfee)
Brinker holds this trial because he wants to get a confession out of Gene. After school hours, Brinker and some of his friend take Finny and Gene to the school’s assembly room. There are more people in the room, and Brinker begins to investigate what happened with Finny falling out of the tree. Brinker begins to question Gene and Finny, and when Gene asks him what he’d doing he says he is “investigating Finny’s accident.” (Knowles 168). When Brinker goes on to ask Finny about Gene’s position when the accident occured, Finny says “I remember seeing [Gene] standing on the bank.” (Knowles 171). Finny knows why Brinker is holding this trial too, and he doesn't want Brinker to find out, so he goes along with the lie that Gene said. Brinker tries to hold a trial to get a confession from Gene that he made Finny fall off the tree, but Finny goes along with Gene to protect his reputation.
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This is straying a little away from Rohan's post but I think that Leper played an important role in the trial in essentially defending Gene and Finny. Although Leper has gone crazy now, he has always had a good awareness of the people around him. On page seventeen Leper complements gene because he “was bidding for an ally in the dispute he foresaw”. Before Finny and Gene realized their competitive relationship, Leper had. During the trial when Leper was questioned he couldn’t remember seeing who had been further down on the branch. He could have “forgotten” to protect Finny and Gene’s relationship to let them figure it out before all the students at Devon were interrogating them.
ReplyDeleteI agree with you, but I think that Brinker’s motivation a little more complicated than just wanting to be ‘above gene’. I think that Brinker wants to get Gene to admit to his crime, rather then it being forced out of him. I think that it's important to say that Brinker wants to take Gene’s place as Finny’s best friend and ally rather than forcing Gene down to the bottom of the social group.
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