Chapters 5-6, A Separate Peace Summary

Chapter 5. Finny has a badly broken leg and Gene learns that he will never participate in sports again. The best Finny can hope for is to walk again. Gene visits Finny in the infirmary and tries to tell him what he has done, but is interrupted before he can. Finny is taken home to Boston by ambulance. The summer session ends and Gene returns home in the south for a month. When Gene returns to the Boston area, he stops by Finny's house on his way to Devon. Gene tells Finny that he intentionally made him fall, but Finny will not accept his view of the accident.

Chapter 6. School begins again. Gene settles back into a routine. For his athletic grade that semester, Gene has signed up to be an assistant to the crew manager...