Devon sat between two rivers, one of them was clean and the other one is dirty. Gene makes Cliff Quakenbush mad by showing up late. Gene ends up punching Quakenbush in the face after Cliff called Gene a mean name. An example of this would be on page 79, “ I tried to throw him off, he lunged at the same time, and we catapulted into the water.” They fell into the dirty water which shows sin which is in Gene. Gene has sin because he was the reason Finny fell off the tree, and broke his leg. When Finny falls down the stairs he ends up with a clean break. This could mean that something bad is going to happen in the near future. Gene also feels bad about this because he was the one who made him break his leg in the first