chapter/day two

                                       

Dear journal,

              When I didn’t go to dinner today Mr. Prud’homme had noticed. He enforced rules and one of them was missing dinner. When he had came to talk to us “We had been swimming in the river” Finny explained ; “then there had been a wrestling match, then there was a sunset that anybody would want to watch, then there’d been several friends we had to see…”(Finny, page 14) Finny knew how to sweet talk everyone. He convinced Mr. Prud’homme that he was sorry about missing dinner and we didn’t get punished. Sometimes this annoyed me about Finny. He knew just how to convince someone that he wasn’t doing anything wrong. However, the faculty at the school had enjoyed us. Although we were careless and wild, we reminded them of what peace was. “Phineas was the essence of this careless peace.” (Gene, page 17) It wasn’t that Finny was unconcerned about the war he just wasn’t totally interested in it. They were teaching them about the war but the still managed to show them what peace was. Finny also didn’t care about what other thought because he could talk his way out of everything. He wore a pink shirt from his mother as an emblem. He wore this pink shirt and the school tie as a belt to school and when the principle had tried yelling at him about it, he talked him out of it. He always does.