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Kate Pippenger Mrs. Adcock English III Honors 19 April 2024 Inter-Complexities of Gene Forrester Gene is fueled by insecurity, jealousy, and competition. He feels little remorse for his actions immediately following them. Gene could no longer stand the little voice in his head telling him that he was not good enough and that Finny was a better person than he was. Gene gave in to his impulses and physically harmed his best friend. John Knowles shows the complexities of the teenage mind, giving into impulses by the incident, the shock reaction, and the eventual guilt Gene feels. Gene made a split-second decision to shake the limb to make Finny fall. Knowles paints this moment with Gene’s decision to hurt Finny as a spur-of-the-moment, impulsive act. Knowles writes, “Holding firmly to the trunk, I took a step toward him, and then my …show more content…
I burst out crying into my hands; I cried for Phineas and for myself and for this doctor who believed in facing things. Most of all I cried because of kindness, which I had not expected”(Knowles 64). This paragraph is the beginning of Gene realizing just how guilty he feels. He cries because he harmed someone who genuinely cared for him, and he cries for himself because he just lost someone who was never wishing ill on him. He knows he does not deserve kindness, but he cries when he receives it because it is a reminder that not all people have a personal vendetta against him. He realized some people wanted to help. Eventually Gene reasons to himself, “If Phineas had been sitting here in this pool of guilt, how would he have felt, what would he have done?”(Knowles 66). From this question, Gene decides to open up to Finny about what he has done. Gene decides this is the only way to deal with his guilt. Knowles uses Gene to illustrate a perfect example of the inner workings of a teenage mind by writing about Finny’s fall, Gene’s initial reaction, and Gene’s guilt after what happened sinks

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