Knowles starts off this novel with Gene entering his old school. When Gene enters the First Academy Building he enters it as if it were a museum. Gene notices how much shiner the place looks and how glossy it is. When he walks around the halls and up the stairs he feels much bigger and taller, the entire place just feels different for him. The second thing Gene visits is a tree. This tree is a huge tree that by the time he visits it is way older then he remembers it. He notices how old it looks and how the coldness affected the tree trunk. Scars covered the trunk and its limbs extended over the river. Knowles probably started the book like this because it is an interesting way of starting a novel and it hooks you into it. When you start reading it he gives you very little information so you want to keep reading so you can find out what he is talking about and who. Knowles made sure Gene visited the tree after the Academy Building because he could blend the descriptions of the tree into the story that Gene shares about when he jumped off the tree with Finny back when he went to Devon School. The begging was a great way to start to book because it really interests the reader.
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