Why does Leper say this?


Ok, in this movie, after Gene finds Leper and they're arguing, in a fit of rage Leper screams at Gene something like "None of them liked you! The only friend you had you pushed out of a tree!" Why does he say that? I never got the impression that nobody liked Gene in the movie or the book. Enlighten me!

~Darling, I'll be yours forever cause I never wanna be without love!

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in the book it's really different, so i'll enlighten you with the book. "This wouldn't have come from the Leper of the beaver dam" is something the narrator (gene) says in the book, meaning Leper had obviously changed since the war. Due to that, he realizes more, and realizes that Gene is savage underneath and pushed Finny out of the tree.
In the book, Gene isn't new to devon, so he'd have known these boys for 3 years now, but idk why they made it that he's a newbie for the summer session.
They never say "none of them liked you" in the book. in the book it's "Did you ever think about me? I thought about myself... it's you we happen to be talking about now, like a savage underneath. Like. like that time you knocked Finny out of the tree."
So in the book Leper never says Gene doesn't have friends.

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Yeah i know i get that its never stated in the book, which is why i don't understand why they put it in the movie

~Darling, I'll be yours forever cause I never wanna be without love!

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i love you too copper =p. and as we speak i'm coming up with a name for our super secret sucicide society


I was also wondering who the wise guy was that classified this movie a Gay Asian, since its neither of those categories

~Darling, I'll be yours forever cause I never wanna be without love!

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It took me over two months to realize I spelled your name wrong. I still love you Cooper!

~Darling, I'll be yours forever cause I never wanna be without love!

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and cori i love you :) i didn't know it was you until after i posted that.

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Since Leper's mind has become unstable, I think this is why he says this. He may also be projecting his own feelings of not really being liked onto Gene.

Rose: How was that sentence going to end?
Tenth Doctor: Does it need saying?
Me: YES!!!!

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