Finny's greatness almost seems too good to be true. I feel like there really couldn't be anyone that has that much ease in what they say and how they play sports. If he were my friend, I'd be jealous no doubt. He's won like six awards and there's more to come. I would feel like I was living in his shadow, no matter how much i matched what he wanted to do. I'm wondering what the narrator's name is, if it's the author or not because I don't remember reading it. Can someone tell me? :] But either way, I don't see how the narrator can stay friends with him, letting him choose everything they do and when they do it. Lack of independence? He does say that when he figured out that Finny was really "plotting against him" that he lost all hope, and everything he relied on. So maybe that push or that thought of Finny not being who the narrator thought he was, really just pushed him to be his own person.
The part about America and the way it was during the war was hard to get through. But the meaning of the paragraph about a person's memory of time is really interesting. Like saying that some significant event will always be what you think of when you look back on life, or when you talk about your life. It makes it seem a lot deeper, and it was enough to get me through that chapter. One word that really stuck out in these two chapters was "naturally." It was said like 10 times. I'm not sure if that is like a hint to the meaning of the book, or to the end of the book. But I'm a little tired of hearing the word. The end of chapter four makes me want to keep reading also. So we'll see what happens next.
-Meri
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