Alex Assignment #9 question #2 "Escape"

       At the end of chapter 9 and throughout chapter 10 "Escape is used in many different ways, mostly by Leper and Gene. The dictionary meaning is "to slip or get away, as from confinement or restraint" (Dictionary.com). In the book this is what Gene thinks of when he is thinking that Leper got caught by spies. But he had really run away from the war because he was going to be discharged as a section 8. "everybody wants to see your discharge, and when they see Section Eight they look at you kind if funny..." (Knowles 144) this is Leper explaining what a Section Eight discharge is . He explains that it is hard to get jobs and preform simple tasks because anyone that knows will never look at you the same way. Leper's meaning of escape is to leave because he was better off without the discharge, but Gene was expecting a great story of triumph were Leper decamps the hideout of the enemy and is now hiding for his life. Gene was disappointing in his friend, but still happy that he was home alive and mostly the same.