Reading Assignment 10) At the top of page 155, the snowball fight culminates with everyone turning on Finny. Why does this happen here and why now? How does this moment foreshadow events later in the chapter?(Gavin)

When everyone turns on Finny at the snowball fight, it directly foreshadows how everyone turns on Gene at the assembly hall. At the snowball fight Finny makes alliances and the breaks them and turns on the people on his team to try and beat them. This happens here and now because this resembles everyone turning on Gene. This is the same thing that happened with Gene at the assembly hall because Gene and Finny's friendship resembles an alliance and how Gene lied about what happen resembles Finny lying about being on the other kids teams. Finny helps Gene out in the assembly by saying, "You were down at the bottom, weren't you?" (Knowles 170). Gene was the firs to help Finny out in the snowball fight, just like how Finny helped Gene about by lying to Brinker, so that Gene is not accused of pushing Finny. This also shows that Finny still will lie about anything to save Gene because he wants their friendship to continue. The snowball fight resembles the war and how Gene thought he had finally found peace, but right when he gets back to Devon he begins a new war with Brinker about what actually happened too Finny. This foreshadows hows everyone turns on Gene at the assembly hall, and Finny turning on Gene in the snowball fight may be foreshadowing to Finny turning on Gene, and thinking Gene meant to push him.