Gene and Finny student responses--external conflicts, internal conflicts, character traits by Lesley Pfeiffer https://padlet.com/lpfeiffer1/jcaq27yfb823 Made with no regrets, whatsoever en-us 2018-04-26 15:15:18 UTC 2018-04-26 15:50:14 UTC hello@padlet.com Gene (character trait lpfeiffer1 https://padlet.com/lpfeiffer1/jcaq27yfb823/wish/255693160 "I flinched violently away from him. 'To drag me down too' " (Knowles 57)! -Jaylene A
Showing how Gene is defensive, shy, jealous, and insecure. 
In what context is Gene showing saying this to Finny? 

]]> 2018-04-26 15:19:51 UTC https://padlet.com/lpfeiffer1/jcaq27yfb823/wish/255693160 Gene (internal conflict) lpfeiffer1 https://padlet.com/lpfeiffer1/jcaq27yfb823/wish/255694247 He secretly envies Finny and constantly thinks that he is in competition with him. Gene gets excited of the thought of Finny failing; Gene thinks he is winning when Gene fails.
Quote: “This time [Finny] wasn’t going to get away with it. I could feel myself becoming unexpectedly excited at that.” “He had gotten away with everything. I felt a sudden stab of disappointment.”pg.20-21 




]]> 2018-04-26 15:22:04 UTC https://padlet.com/lpfeiffer1/jcaq27yfb823/wish/255694247 Gene (external conflict) lpfeiffer1 https://padlet.com/lpfeiffer1/jcaq27yfb823/wish/255694831 Gene has a conflict with Cliff Quakenbush; they got in an argument that turned violent.
Quote: “ I realized that all this explained to him, and it wasn’t the words he said which angered me” “I hit him hard across the face” pg.71




]]> 2018-04-26 15:23:05 UTC https://padlet.com/lpfeiffer1/jcaq27yfb823/wish/255694831 Finny (External conflict) lpfeiffer1 https://padlet.com/lpfeiffer1/jcaq27yfb823/wish/255695218 Finny's leg is broken and useless to him. 
Quote: "Listen Pal, if I can't play sport, you're going to play them for me" (Knowles 77). - Litzy H]]> 2018-04-26 15:23:46 UTC https://padlet.com/lpfeiffer1/jcaq27yfb823/wish/255695218 Finny (character trait) lpfeiffer1 https://padlet.com/lpfeiffer1/jcaq27yfb823/wish/255697872 Finny is a natural born leader; who is fearless and daring

Quote: “Naturally Finny was going to be the first to try, and naturally he was going to inveigle others, us, into trying it with him” (Knowles 7). -Isaac M.
]]> 2018-04-26 15:29:03 UTC https://padlet.com/lpfeiffer1/jcaq27yfb823/wish/255697872 Finny (internal conflict) ` lpfeiffer1 https://padlet.com/lpfeiffer1/jcaq27yfb823/wish/255698425 Finny can't accept the truth of the war because he isn’t allowed to be in it. 
Quote evidence from novel (include page number)
“I've been writing to the Army and the Navy and the Canadians and everybody else all winter” (Knowles 181).
-Isaac




]]> 2018-04-26 15:30:05 UTC https://padlet.com/lpfeiffer1/jcaq27yfb823/wish/255698425 Gene (external conflict with Leper) lpfeiffer1 https://padlet.com/lpfeiffer1/jcaq27yfb823/wish/255701008 Gene’s external conflict is when Leper confronts him about him pushing Finny off the tree with the rest of the boys (at the mock trial).

Quote evidence from novel (include page number)
-”One of them was next to the trunk, holding the trunk of the tree...” (Knowles 167).

- Sarai S


]]> 2018-04-26 15:35:21 UTC https://padlet.com/lpfeiffer1/jcaq27yfb823/wish/255701008 Finny (internal conflict): delusional about war lpfeiffer1 https://padlet.com/lpfeiffer1/jcaq27yfb823/wish/255702042 Finny can’t accept the truth of the war because he can’t be in it.
Quote evidence from novel (include page number)

“I’ve been writing to the army and the navy and the Canadians and everybody else all winter” (Knowles 181). - Aylee W


]]> 2018-04-26 15:37:28 UTC https://padlet.com/lpfeiffer1/jcaq27yfb823/wish/255702042 Gene- internal conflict dealing with guilt lpfeiffer1 https://padlet.com/lpfeiffer1/jcaq27yfb823/wish/255702717 Quote evidence from novel (include page number)
“I did not cry then or ever about Finny. I did not cry even when I stood watching him being lowered into his family’s strait-laced burial ground outside of Boston. I could not escape a feeling that this was my own funeral, and you do not cry in that case.”(Knowles 186). -Jakob Peck 


]]> 2018-04-26 15:38:55 UTC https://padlet.com/lpfeiffer1/jcaq27yfb823/wish/255702717 Finny (character traits) lpfeiffer1 https://padlet.com/lpfeiffer1/jcaq27yfb823/wish/255703826
  • Athletic 
  • Confident 
  • Cool
  • Slick
    • Quote evidence from novel (include page number)“[Finny] had unconsciously invented a game which brought his own athletic gift to their highest pitch”( Knowles 31). 
    -Felipe

    ]]>     2018-04-26 15:41:11 UTC https://padlet.com/lpfeiffer1/jcaq27yfb823/wish/255703826     Finny (internal conflict) lpfeiffer1 https://padlet.com/lpfeiffer1/jcaq27yfb823/wish/255704194 He feels useless because of his leg.

    Quote evidence from novel (include page number)
    “I’ll hate it everywhere if I’m not in this war”(Knowles 182)!




    ]]>     2018-04-26 15:41:49 UTC https://padlet.com/lpfeiffer1/jcaq27yfb823/wish/255704194     Finny- Character trait lpfeiffer1 https://padlet.com/lpfeiffer1/jcaq27yfb823/wish/255706309 He had a big heart. He was very athletic. He never gets in trouble.
    Quote evidence from novel (include page number)
    ‘’Or just blitzball,’’ reflected Finny. Yes Blitzball" (Knowles 29).

    -Alondra S
    ]]>     2018-04-26 15:45:42 UTC https://padlet.com/lpfeiffer1/jcaq27yfb823/wish/255706309     Finny (external conflict on marble staircase) lpfeiffer1 https://padlet.com/lpfeiffer1/jcaq27yfb823/wish/255707125 Falling from the tree and breaking his leg, also falling from the marble staircase.

    Quote evidence from novel (include page number)
    “ body falling clumsily down the white marble stairs”(177).
    Ashleigh Barr




    ]]>     2018-04-26 15:47:23 UTC https://padlet.com/lpfeiffer1/jcaq27yfb823/wish/255707125