A Separate Peace
Near the end of the chapter,Gene describes sports in war-like terms. Cite at least three of his examples.
Chapter 6
Chapter 6
This quote pretty much sums it up,
"It was as though football players were really bent on crushing the life out of each other, as though boxers were in combat to the death, as though even a tennis ball might turn into a bullet. This didn’t seem completely crazy imagination in 1942, when jumping out of trees stood for abandoning a torpedoed ship. Later, in the school swimming pool, we were given the second stage in that rehearsal: after you hit the water you made big splashes with your hands, to scatter the flaming oil which would be on the surface."