How we cite our quotes: Citations follow this format: (Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #7
Brinker the lawgiver had turned rebel for the duration (9.39).
This is the last straw. Phineas's return to Devon has turned the tables and reversed the transition from summer to winter, peace to war, anarchy to order.
Quote #8
"If a war can drive somebody crazy, then it's real all right. Oh I guess I always knew, but I didn't have to admit it" (11.84).
Here we see another example of Finny's rules. His fantasy world, in which there was no war or enmity, turned out to be precariously balanced on his delicate system of principles.
Quote #9
My brief animosity, lasting only a second, a part of a second, something which came before I could recognize it and was gone before I knew it had possessed me, what was that in the midst of this holocaust? (12.34).
As change comes to Devon, even the rules are affected, or so Gene would like to think. Crimes become relative, guilt is redefined.