The need for power in a competitive relationship cultivates and encourages the thought of wrongdoings, leaving one with a fruitless life.

If someone is selfish they can ruin a friendship instantly, the selfish person might not even know what they’re doing wrong and have a miserable life.

“I began at that point the emotional examination to note how far my convalescence had gone” (Knowles 11).
• When Gene is entering the school he has a ton of feelings and thought about how much time he spent thinking about previous feelings noticing it left him

“Do nothing from rivalry or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves.” Philippians 2:3

Gene acknowledges his unforeseen jealousy, “Unfamiliar with the absence of fear [...] I had not been able to identify its presence” (Knowles 10)

“A tranquil heart is life to the body, But passion is rottenness to the bones.” Proverbs 14:30

“Any alleged potent jealousy of Finny’s superior body or soul, explains the combined memories of fear and joy that Gene discovers upon returning to Devon” (McGarvan 2).
• Gene realized the only reason why he was jelous of him is because without finny Gene would become a loner and he feared that he can go nowhere without Phineas.
“Repent therefore, and turn again, that your sins may be blotted out” Acts 3:19

“He knows no other way to subdue or escape his inner conflict” (John 46)
Gene has do idea on how to get rid of all the pain he cant control his actions.

But with you there is forgiveness, that you may be feared. Psalm 130:4

He brings up relatable topics like Jealousy, and there not even one person in this world that never gets jealous. He teaches real life problems and ways to solve them.