Changes in Gene and Leper
Leper is portrayed as the dreamer and eccentric loner at Devon, his idiosyncratic ways often being cause for ridicule. Unlike the other boys who accept, and sometimes even embrace the war, Leper grapples with it silently. Finally he shocks his classmates and becomes the first to enlist in the war, unable to stand the wait for what he views as the inevitable, stating “’. . . Everything has to evolve or else it perishes’” (117). Leper’s absence makes the war even more surreal to the others; it had always seemed Leper was detached from the fighting of the real world. After all, it seemed unbelievable a war could “draw Leper voluntarily away from his snails and be
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Some common words found in the essay are:
, Finny Gene, Finny Finnys,
Approximate Word count = 446
Approximate Pages = 2 (250 words per page double spaced)
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