# data[].attributes.body
Finny had told Gene that he was aiming for the Olympics. He only said this because after what he said he had to say something very personal. Finny had said he was going to train Gene for the Olympics. Mr. Ludsbury had stopped them after they were done training one day. Finny had flat out told him no. This was the fifth time any students had told him no. He then said something so rapidly neither of them could understand him and left. Finny had then said, "he's really sincere, he thinks there's a war going on." Gene had then pitied Mr. Ludsbury for his fatal thinness and reflected that after all he had a gullible side.

# data[].attributes.body
One of the teachersat the Devon school.

# data[].attributes.body
On page 116 Gene had asked, "What makes you so special? Why should you get it and all the rest of us be in the dark?" Phineas had replied, "Because I've suffered."

# data[].attributes.body
On page 111 finny said, "What I mean is, I love winter, and when you really love something, then it loves you back, in whatever way it has to love."

# data[].attributes.body
Phineas came back and joked with insulting his outfit. Brinker had asked gene to enlist with him. Phineas was shocked by this, by him waving. Gene had decided he would not enlist. Gene had never forgotten the dazed look on Finny's face when he thought that on the first day of his return to Devon he was going to desert him.

# data[].attributes.body
Phineas and skipped the first day of class. They had went to the school's gym. Finny had told Gene he was going to be the big star now. Gene had told Finny he didn't go out go out for anything because it doesn't seem so important with the war going on. Finny had claimed that there was no actual war being fought. Finny had said that the only reason he quit is "because he has suffered."

# data[].attributes.body
Gene had foreshadowed Phineas' death  throughout the whole chapter. On page 111 Gene had said, "There was one certainty that Dr. Stanpole had given- Phineas would walk again. But the thought was there before one that he would never walk like that again."

# data[].attributes.body
Genes's best friend, he had just got back from recovering.

# data[].attributes.body
His dorm is right next to Finny and Genes's, had asked Gene to enlist with him.

# data[].attributes.body
Main character, is best friends and roommates with Finny.

# data[].attributes.body
Devon High School