I'm assuming you've read the novel, so my references to events will be just that--short, quick references.
- The frame (beginning and end) - Gene comes back to Devon school and re-examines the events of those years
- Summer school and the Suicide Society
- Finny and Gene do all sorts of things (beach, blitzball, etc.) but not much schoolwork
- Gene comes to the erroneous conclusion that Finny wants Gene to fail
- Gene jounces the limb and Finny falls
- Before school begins again in the fall, Gene tries to confess but Finny refuses to hear him
- Gene wastes his athletic abilities on being a manager; he and Brinker decide to enlist
- Finny stays home until Thanksgiving, then returns. Gene's plans to enlist evaporate
- Training for the Olympics, Winter Carnival, and note from Leper
- Gene visits Leper and is faced with his guilt by a rather crazy Leper who has gone AWOL
- Finny now denying the war even exists
- Brinker conductsa mock trial which reveals Gene's guilt and Finny's doubts; Leper testifies
- Finny falls and is taken to the infirmary
- Gene tries to apologize to Finny but is rebuffed
- Gene returns to the infirmary and is able to have a lucid and reconciliation moment with Finny
- Gene finds out Finny has died
- Brinker's dad comes and presents an idealized view of war and serving in the military; Brinker is angry and disillusioned
- Back to the framed story and a pensive Gene--who enlisted but never really had to fight
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