Firefighters-Personal Narrative

Finny is a manipulative person to others and makes them do what he wants no matter what task they have to do. He doesn’t seem to care too much as long as it works out for him. Finny never gets

Finn knowing what had happened to Roza, seeing the guy who had taken her, watching “The laughing girl, the girl who chopped woods and danced in the dirt and talked to pigs and carried dressers and grew enough vegetables to feed a city would leave? Without a sound? Without an explanation? Without a good-bye? Without Sean?” (Ruby 218). As Finn goes through so much trying to find Roza, leaving with his brother, dealing with the town where everybody knows everything, dealing with the Rudes brothers who have nothing else better to do than bully Finn, Finn finds himself figuring what life is all about and what true love really is. When the time comes where Finn finds Roza, the town changes and everybody comes to see Finn as a human being rather than as a “Spaceman” or “Moonface” or “Sidetrack” Thesis: In this journal, I will be visualizing, evaluating and

Finn no longer has a family to care or provide for him, but despite his struggle for sufficient resources he still assists Rose when she's being hunted by Ramage and his men. This decision to help Rose

Once Gene told Finny that he purposefully jumped in the tree to make Finny fall, Finny had to realize that the perennial friendship he believed he had with Gene, may have been built on lies. In the book, Finny’s first expression after being told that Gene caused his fall was actually a facial expression; “he looked older than I had ever seen him” (Knowles 99). This shows that as Finny heard his best friend admit to wanting to hurt him, the only person he had put his full trust in. Even though we don’t get to see what Finny is actually thinking, it is safe to infer Finny felt naive, and was completely shattered. Finny’s trust in Gene and throughout the rest of the novel, their friendship is never restores until the last few pages. Towards the end of the book, Finny completely loses his innocence when he finally admits that the war was actually occurring. In the book, once he sees Leper hiding and decides that he is crazy due to the war. Finny then says, “‘then I knew there was a real war on’” (Knowles 241). Throughout the novel, Finny stood very firmly on his belief that the war was fake -- that no one could hate each other that much -- but once he decided to admit that it was real, it was like his hope had gone

8. How does Finny react when Gene tells Finny what actually caused the fall? Gets angry – refuses to believe him – tells him “I’ll kill you if you don’t shut up!”

The ignorance and innocence of the summer session are quickly fragmented when the seriousness of Gene’s actions are unveiled with Finny’s death.

After suffering severe damage to both his leg and his innocence, Finny reveals that he “[has] been writing to the Army and to the Navy and to the Marines” because he “will hate it everywhere if [he is] not in this war” (Knowles 190). Finny’s eventual acknowledgement of the war and attempt to enlist in the military display the internal change that he undergoes throughout the novel; Finny’s feelings toward the war symbolize the destruction of his innocence. When Brinker confronts Finny about his accident, “Have you ever thought that you didn’t just fall out of that tree?” he shakes “his head sharply, closing his eyes…he [starts] across the marble floor towards the doors,” resulting in “his body falling clumsily down the white marble stairs” (Knowles 169,176,177). Finny begins to feel his innocent world finally collapse when Brinker and the other boys force him to acknowledge the fact that his best pal pushed him off of the tree. Finny falling down the stairs in chaotic fashion symbolizes realization that his world begins to fall apart. Finny’s once innocent but now crushed personality displays how even the most optimistic people of the world will inevitably undergo internal struggle and change when they confront the evil in the

This battle began when Finny was thrown from the limb of the tree injuring his leg. When Gene visits Finny, shortly after the incident, he does not confess the truth. Instead he takes a listening ear as Finny tells him “‘I just fell,’ his eyes were vaguely on my face, ‘something jiggled and I fell over’” (57). Though Finny simply could not accept his best friend did this to him, he somehow knew was lying to himself. This may seem like a rational thing to do, but people often forget what the end result may be. As Finny illustrates, lies always have consequences, even the ones we tell to ourselves. Finny’s injury had a major impact on his life. He could no longer play sports, something that came natural to him. He was also of no use in the Military, and honorable for thing for young men to do at the time. These things definitely affected the way Finny defined himself. But Finny, trying to keep his ego as the perfect person everyone thought he was, chose not to talk about the pain he was feeling. Instead of facing the truth, he created a fantasy. A fantasy that the war wasn’t real at all, but that it was just manipulated to seem real like the “double sawing illusion” at a magic show. Finny deliberately chose to be blind to the truth, this was his version of a quick fix for the pain facing the truth would bring. Though this battle to face the truth was a part of the glue holding Gene and Finny’s

I didn’t sleep much that night. My mind had too many thoughts. Phineas had every right to hate me and never speak to me again, or at least be angry with me. Yet he chose to believe that it was just a blind impulse on the tree that day. I couldn’t comprehend why that is. Was it a blind impulse? I lay there thinking that in no way did I deserve to be Finny’s friend. I somehow understood that our identities were beginning to merge, and we had some connection stronger than friendship. I think that it was this that kept us together, not what I did or what he believed I did, the unbreakable connection between

Mark Smith has able to highlight that Finn had spent 2 years on his own, however he has never been truly alone, he had a friendly neighbour named Ray and his loyal dog Rowdy to support each other, but when Rose came into the picture, there was a new set of chaotic and dangerous challenges to overcome, Smith has proven that Rose needs Finn as much as Finn needs surfing to survive "I didn't know where you were… for all I know, you could've been… I was scared." This shows the amount of trust Rose puts into Finn that he will find Kas and bring her back. The author shows how Finn is developing into a more mature and effective young leader by suggesting the plan to sabotage the Wilder gang "that's for Rose you bastard" this is evidence that Finn is maturing, is brave and is

Gene even embodied Finny’s identity when he wanted to forget about himself. Because of this, when Finny died, Gene was shaken to his core. When describing how he reacted to Finny’s death, Gene states solemnly, “I did not cry then or ever about Finny. I did not even cry when I stood watching him being lowered into his family’s straight laced burial ground outside of Boston. I could not escape a feeling

Firefighters are highly revered members of every community because they are quick to respond and handle whatever situation confronts them. They put their lives on the line to save people from burning buildings, extricate victims from motor vehicle collisions, fight forest fires, treat the sick, cook pancakes, and give tours of their station and fire apparatus. What isn’t to love about firefighters and the profession? As odd as it may sound, firefighter arsonist. Every year on the average one hundred firefighters are arrested for arson (National Volunteer Fire Council [NVFC], 2011, p. 4).

Sitting at the kitchen table, watching on as my siblings cried and my parents smiled apologetically, I couldn’t help but wonder why they’d done it. Why they’d gone so much farther than anyone else only to end up here, apologizing for the entire act. Reflecting back, I don’t think I realized how much we benefitted from the charade.

Cas had snapped. He dropped his fathers groceries and started to move towards the happy crowd. His father had not said a word to him, but his face said it all.

"Finnegan! You no longer belong with us! If it weren't for you we would have already found a home," the leader exclaimed, infuriated. Finnegan did not react. The entire group nodded their heads in agreement and left Finnegan sitting on a moldy log, playing with mud. He sat there for hours and hours, staring at the bright blue sky, waiting for the people he grew up with to come