Lidiane Borges Borges itibaren Monolithi 440 13, Grækenland itibaren Monolithi 440 13, Grækenland

I read this book over the summer, for fun. It was much better than catcher in the rye. The story is about Gene and Phineas (Finny) who start out as highschool juniors at a new England boys private school. Finny is everything gene is not- hot, athletic, popular… Gene is smart, but you can see why he'd be jealous of Finny. Finny becomes his best friend and together they do fun stuff together, like play a Phineas invented game called blitzball, skip school to go to the beach, and jump from a tree into a river. That last activity is very important in he book. Gene thinks Phineas is trying to befriend him to distract him from his studies so Gene won't be good at the one thing he's good at, school. One day when he and Phineas are on the tree, Gene shakes the tree to make Phineas fall. Luckily phineas doesn't die, but he is so badly injured that he has trouble walking and he certainly will never play sports again. Sports mean the world to Phineas. This goes to show that one change CAN change everything. I'm not going to spoil the ending but nothing is ever the same between Phineas and Gene. There is that underlying detail that haunts them both. Neither of them confronts the other afterward but they both sorta know inside that that fall from the tree was no accident.