Реферат: Artificial Vs Natural In A Seperate Peace

and if this stunned people then he was surprised.” (Gene Pg. 16) Finny

was the best athlete in the school, but what made him so natural is the

fact that he did it out of pure enjoyment for the sport and not for the

awards and praise that came with it. When he broke the school swimming

record, he did not want anyone to find out about it. “By the way…we aren’t

going to talk about this. It’s just between you and me. Don’t say anything

about it, to…anyone.” (Finny Pg. 36) He didn’t want attention, he just

wanted to see is he could break the record. Finny believed that : “Everyone

always won at sports. When you played a game, you won, in the same way

as when you sat down to a meal you ate it. It inevitably and naturally

followed.” (Gene pg. 27) “Finny never permitted himself to realize that

when you won, they lost. That would have destroyed the perfect beauty which

was sport. Nothing bad ever happened in sports; they were the absolute

good.” (Gene Pg. 27) Finny’s attitude towards sports is similar to his

personality as a whole. He was innocent and never caused anyone harm purposely

and believed everyone was the same way. When he told Gene that he wanted

to participate in the war, Gene replied by saying: …You’d be sitting

at one of their command posts, teaching them English. Yes, you’d get confused

and borrow one of their uniforms, and you’d lend them one of yours…You’d

get things so scrambled up nobody would know how to fight any more. You’d

make a mess, a terrible mess, Finny, out of the war.” (Gene Pg. 182) Gene

knew what kind of person Finny was and knew that he was not cut out for

the war. Being the natural person that he was, he enjoyed nature and ran

around and frolicked while at the beach with Gene. “This kind of sunshine

and ocean, with the accumulating roar of surf and the salt, adventurous,

flirting wind from the sea, always intoxicated Phineas. He was everywhere.

He enjoyed himself hugely, he laughed out loud at passing sea gulls. And

he did everything he could think of for me.” (Gene Pg. 39) He had honest.

open relationships with people, and unlike Gene, was not afraid of what