Quote
"That was when things began to change. One day I couldn't make out what was happening to the corporal's face.It kept changing into faces I knew from somewhere else, and then I began to think he looked like me,...I didn't want to be the only one to see a thing like that,I yelled louder and louder to make sure everyone within reach of my voice would hear-...I remember thinking that he [the man who slept next to him in the barracks] must have been at the hospital helping with an amputation [he thought he saw him come in with a sawed off leg] when he heard my yell."(150)
Significance
I chose this quote becuase it shows the first real noticable affect of the war on anyone. Leper went from being a quiet, strange, yet stable young boy. Now, he received a Class Eight discharge, making him question his own sanity. This also shows how the pressure of the war- the regiment, the training-can affect a sensitive person. This is a real break in the separate peace that eveyone at Devon is so lucky to have. And the worse part(it seems) is Leper signed up, he wasn't forced. He expected it to be fun, but he was oh so wrong.
Question
Could the third to last line of the chapter("I didn't care because it had nothing to do with me.") be a foreshadow to Gene becoming involved in the war?
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