Character Analysis: The Super Suicide Society

Phineas has fallen of a branch and broke his leg after attempting a double jump into the river at Devon school.

In the summer of 1942 Phineas broke his leg at a meeting for the Super Suicide Society. He and Gene Forester attempted to do a double jump to open up the ceremony for new members. He fell when the branch was jostled by Gene and completely shattered his leg.
The Super Suicide Society was a group at Devon School that had members join by jumping off a tree into the river. One night at the school Leper Lepellier decides he wants to become a member of the Super Suicide Society. Each time the Super Suicide Society opens a meeting Gene and Phineas jump off the tree one at a time. Because they decided to do a double jump at this

meeting it caused some problems. After Gene had jumped from the branch he shook it so much that phineas lost balance and fell.
When Phineas fell from the branch he fell from so high up in the tree that he shattered multiple bones in his leg.

Phineas spent a couple of weeks in the infirmary before he was allowed to have visitors. When Phineas was finally accepting visitors the doctor requested Gene to go visit him. When Gene is able to go visit Phineas they talk about the fall and if Phineas remembers it. Phineas doesn’t remember Gene being the one to push him off and denies it being Gene’s fault. Of course, Gene feels very guilty about being the one to cause his best friend to break his leg.
In the fall before Gene goes to start school be decided to go visit Phineas. He mentions the fall again. He and Phineas discuss how it happened once again and they get into a major argument. Phineas is upset and in denial about Gene blaming himself so he snaps at him.
Phineas didn’t return back to school immediately that year, but when he does be finds out that Gene was thinking of enlisting in the war. Phineas is angry that Gene can enlist while he can't, so he comes up with a theory to keep him from enlisting. The theory is that the war is all a hoax and it is created by fat old men. Of course, Gene believes this and decides there isn't a point in enlisting now. Because Phineas also wanted to be a part of the Olympics he suggests that Gene should train to become an athlete in the 1944 Olympics.Mr Ludsbury tells the boys that there will be no 1944 Olympics due to the war, but Phineas still insists that Gene trains. Phineas even sets up a winter carnival with Olympic events for Gene to compete

in.
Although Phineas was back at school, he still wasn’t completely healed and was having trouble walking without the assistance of a cane.One night Phineas, Leper, Brinker, and Gene go to the assembly hall to investigate Brinker about the fall. After Leper shares what he remembers of that night, Phineas storms out of the assembly hall. He ends up falling down the stairs and breaking his leg yet again. While he is in the Infirmary one night Gene decides to go visit him. Phineas wants nothing to do with him there and yells at Gene for causing another one of his accident.
Later Phineas learned that his leg needed to have surgery to reset the bone. The surgery should’ve been easy if there were no complications. Phineas was on the operating table and the docter was having problems during his surgery. The bone marrow from Phineas’s leg had transfered to his bloodstream and into his heart. This caused Phineas to die on the operating table and Gene is left alone. He decides that the reason he admired Phineas so much was that he was very brave and hardly ever jealous of anyone.
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