Key+Lines

Often when we read we see a key line and know it is important, even if we don't know why. You surely recognized those as you keep a double entry journal, and I'd like you to list the most important ones here. After the line, include a brief sentence or two explaining why it is significant.

Chapter 1 - Nothing endures, not a tree, not love, not even a death by violence. Chapter 2 - I think we reminded them of what peace was like, we boys of sixteen. Chapter 4 - Was that it! My eyes snapped from the textbook toward him. Chapter 6 - "Peace has deserted Devon" Chapter 7 - "Oh, you know about the tree," I tried to let my face fall guilty, but i felt instead as though it were being dragged downward. Chapter 8 - So the war swept over like wave at the sea shore, gathering power and size as it bore on us. Chapter 9 - I have escaped and need help. Chapter 10 - "That night i made for the first time the kind of journey which later became the monotonous continue of my life." - " None of this could have been said by the leper of the beaver dam." Chapter 12 - "You want to break something else in me! Is that why you're here! Chapter 13 - All of them, all except Phineas, constructed at infinit cost to them selves these Maginot lives against this enemy they thought they saw across the frontier this enemy who attacked that way- if he ever attacked at all, if he was indeed the enemy. - None of them ever accused me of being responsible for what happened to Phineas, either because they could not believe it or because they could not understand it. I would have talked about that, but they would not, and I would not talk about Phineas in any other way.

- pg. 58 " I dont care who I sound like, and you wont think so when I tell you. This is the worst thing in the world and i am sorry and i hate to tell you but i've got to tell you." - pg. 82 "The was is a bore our chore is a core of the war" - pg. 183 " This is something boys of generation are going to see alot of," he said gently, "and i will have to tell you about it now. Your friend is dead." Well this is obvious... - pg. 128 I have escaped and i need help. I am at christmas location. You understand. You need to risk address here. My safety depends on you coming at once. - pg. 71 " I hit him hard across the face...." - pg 147 " levers not the little rabbit we used to know anymore" - pg. 157 If when Brinku had said, "Let us pay" I had said " Go to hell" everything might have been said. -