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

The snowball fight culminates with everyone turning of Finny simply because he turned on them in order to "heighten the disorder" (Knowles, 154).  He does this, as he always does, to stand out from the others. As the snowball fight was in its peak Finny was taken down by the force of many snowballs. "Slowly, with a steadily widening grin, he was driven down beneath a blizzard of snowballs (Knowles, 155). This event foreshadows the "trial" led by Brinker and the others. Just as Phineas was taken down by the blizzard of snowballs, he is emotional tackled by the harsh questioning of Brinker, leading him to come to the conclusion that Gene jounced the limb of the tree on purpose. The reader knows this because of his breakdown at the end of page 177, "I had never seen Finny crying, 'You collect every f------ing fact there is in the world!' He plunged out the doors" (Knowles, 177). Clearly here the questioning and Leper's testimony has gotten to his head. The one big difference here is when he turned on everybody during the snowball fight it had humorous intentions, apposed to here where the sole intention was to hurt Finny, and make it clear to him what Gene really did.