Lightning Slideshow

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Lightning Slideshow
Ella Borkowski Brian Pool Donavan Steinke Dallas
Crouch
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He had gotten away with everything. I felt a
sudden stab of disappointment. That was because I
just wanted to see more excitement that must
have been it, (28).
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Any fear I had ever had of the tree was nothing
beside this. It wasnt my neck, but my
understanding which was menaced. He had never
been jealous of me for a second. Now I knew that
there never was and never could have been any
rivalry between us, I was not of the same quality
as he. I couldnt stand this, (59).
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And also I didnt want to let him excel me in
this, even though I knew that it didnt matter
whether he showed up at the tree or not. Because
it was what you had in your heart that counted.
And I had detected that Finnys was a den of
lonely selfish ambition. He was no better than I
was, no matter who won all the contests, (56).
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I found it. I found a single sustaining thought.
The thought was, You and Phineas are even
already. You are even in enmity. You are both
coldly driving ahead for yourselves alone. You
did hate him for breaking that school record in
swimming, but so what? He hated you for getting
an A in every course but one last term. You could
have had an A in that one except for him. Except
for him, (53).
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Then a second realization broke as clearly and
bleakly as dawn at the beach. Finny had
deliberately set out to wreck my studies. That
explained blitzball, that explained the nightly
meetings of the Super Suicide Society, that
explained his insistence that I share all his
diversions. The way I believe that
youre-my-best-friend blabber, (53).