chapter #8, Question #3, Elianna Knight

Finny organized the Winter Carnival to animate the boring Saturday afternoons and to recreate the Olympics of 1944. After Gene had been thinking about the bad Saturday afternoons Finny asked him, “You know what we’d better do next Saturday.” This is followed by the introduction of the Winter Carnival. This quote suggests that finny decided to construct the Idea of the winter carnival in order to spice up their Saturday afternoons. Right before they start to begin the Winter Carnival Finny exclaims, “Who ever heard of opening the Games without the sacred fire from Olympus.” Finny wants to light a sacred fire to produce the feeling of the real Olympics. Going to the Olympics is Finny’s dream and he somewhat fulfilled it by building his own Olympics. Boring Saturday afternoons and the dream of the Olympics both contributed to the Idea of the Winter Carnival.