1. War is caused because of the natural hatred human has, and the natural greed. If man loved, and not tried to challenge what they don’t have, the world would be a special place, but like John Locke once said, Man is naturally evil. Man for centuries has been attacking itself in search for something it does not have. John Knowles but it right when he said “It seemed clear that wars were not made by generations and their special stupidities, but that wars were made instead by something ignorant in the human heart.”

2. Those who are weak, follow not his own personality, but adapts one of another human being. Along with this comes the tendency to do things he sees others do. For example, Gene jumps off the tree, he’s shamed into it. He doesn’t want to believe it, but he does. The adaptation of Finny’s personality comes with him hurting him, he adapts his personality because he believes that he is no one. He wants to be loved by his friends by doing things his friends liked, not the ones he does.

3. When a human’s values and beliefs are threatened, it tends to lash out violently. The classic case in this story, Gene jouncing the limb to hurt Finny. He felt like he was threatened, he felt like his academics was being purposefully being tainted by Finny’s antics. When Leper was threatening Gene’s cover-up from the ordeal with Leper, he attacked him in his chair. It goes to show that people tend to not want to see the truth, even if it stares them right in the face.