A Separate Peace

A Separate Peace

in chapter 4, did Gene intentionally jounce the limb, or might it have been an accident?

Asked by
Last updated by jill d #170087
Answers 1
Add Yours

Gene intentionally jostled the limb, though I don't believed he ever dreamed Finny would actually be hurt. It was just an instance of boyish foolishness he could never take back.

Holding firmly to the trunk, I took a step toward him, and then my knees bent and I jounced the limb. Finny, his balance gone, swung his head around to look at me for an instant with extreme interest, and then he tumbled sideways, broke through the little branches below and hit the bank with a sickening, unnatural thud. It was the first clumsy physical action I had ever seen him make. With unthinking sureness I moved out on the limb and jumped into the river, every trace of my fear of this forgotten.

Source(s)

A Separate Peace