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Gene and Finny form the "secret society" with reference to the daunting jump from a tall tree branch into the river.
In the book A Separate Peace, you need to climb the tall tree by the river and jump out of it to belong to the "suicide society" that Gene and Finny make up. They expand the name to "The Super Suicide Society of the Summer Session" as they discuss it.
Charles Kinbote, the narrator of Vladimir Nabokov's novel "Pale Fire," comes up with the final name The Super Suicide Society of Summer Session. He mentions it as a dedication to John Shade, the author of the poem within the novel.
Jumping from a tree
In the novel "A Separate Peace" by John Knowles, it is Leper who forms the "Super Suicide Society of the Summer Session." Quackenbush is a minor character in the story, an antagonist to Gene but not involved in the society.
I know he was in the Golden Fleece Debating Committee. As well as the The Super Suicide Society of the Summer Session.
The Super Suicide Society of the Summer Session
The Super Suicide Society of the Summer Session is a secret society that Gene and Finny create after they were swimming in the river. Gene sees the big tree and asks Finny if he is still afraid of the tree. He answers no and this is what lead to the society. They both get up on the tree limb and jump off into the river. Gene almost falls off the limb but Finny saves him. In order to get into this society, you must jump into the river from the tree branch. It is because of this that Finny gets into his big accident.
Society for Old Age Rational Suicide was created in 2009.
Disagreements between members of the community
It is a "secret club" established by Gene and Finny that includes those willing to make a dangerous jump from a tree into the river. Of the original group dared, only Gene does the jump, after some goading by Finny.
His parents and his older brother who committed suicide.