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Chapter 1
Gene returns to Devon School as an adult, sixteen years after the events of the novel. He walks through the campus and focuses on two places that still unsettle him: a set of marb…
Chapter 2
Finny invents a new game called Blitzball, making up rules as he goes and somehow winning everyone's enthusiasm for it.
Chapter 3
The summer continues with more Blitzball and tree jumps. Gene starts to believe that Finny is deliberately sabotaging his studies by pulling him away from work at key moments.
Chapter 4
Gene studies hard for a trigonometry test and does well, which briefly makes him feel like he and Finny are equals, each excellent in their own domain.
Chapter 5
Finny is taken to the infirmary and then sent home to recover. Gene is left alone at Devon, and the guilt starts to settle in.
Chapter 6
School resumes in the fall, and Gene returns to Devon without Finny. He takes over as assistant crew manager, a job far below his abilities, and starts to feel the weight of Finny…
Chapter 7
Finny returns to Devon, and Gene's world shifts immediately. Finny cannot play sports anymore, so he decides Gene will be his athletic stand-in and trains him for the 1944 Olympic…
Chapter 8
Training with Finny becomes Gene's main focus. Finny coaches him seriously, and Gene improves.
Chapter 9
Winter Carnival at Devon is the chapter's centerpiece. Finny organizes it as a celebration of pure pleasure, no rules, no war, no adult oversight.
Chapter 10
Gene finds Leper at his family's home in Vermont, and Leper is not okay. He is paranoid, angry, and describes hallucinations he had in the army.
Chapter 11
Brinker pushes hard to get to the bottom of what really happened the night Finny fell from the tree. He organizes a formal inquiry in the Assembly Room, pulling in witnesses and p…
Chapter 12
Gene follows Finny to the infirmary and the two finally have an honest conversation about what happened on the tree. Gene tries to explain himself, and Finny, for the first time,…
Chapter 13
The novel closes with Gene as an adult returning to Devon and reflecting on what the war years and Finny's death taught him.
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