A Seperate Peace
The novel A Separate Peace takes place at an all-boys Private school called Devon during World War II and a conflict appears between two best friends; Gene and Finny.
This conflict happens because when jumping out of a tree into the Devon River Finny suggested that he and gene should jump at the same time. Gene got in his head that Finny was trying to distract him from his studying so that Finny would be better at more things than him “then a second realization broke as clearly and bleakly as dawn on the beach. Finny had deliberately set out to wreck my studies” (Knowles, 45). For a while Finny believed that Gene had not been the cause of his falling out of the tree, even when Gene tried telling him that he had jounced the branch causing Finny to fall and break his leg “I deliberately jounced the limb so you would fall off.” He looked older than I had ever seen him. “Of course you didn’t.” “Yes I did. I did!” ”Of course you didn’t do it. You damn fool. Sit down, you damn fool” (Knowles, 62). Even though there are a few conflicts between Gene and Finny they remained friends throughout the entire book even after Finny realizes that what Gene told him was in fact true “Finny I tried to tell you before, I tried to tell you when I came to Boston that time-“I know, I remember that.” (Knowles, 181) “No I don’t know how to show you, how can I show you, Finny? Tell me how to show you. It was just some ignorance inside me, some crazy thing inside me, something blind, that’s all it was “I believe you. You’ve already shown me and I believe you” (Knowles, 183). So even in the end of the book these two friends remain so whether they have conflicts between them or not even when Finny died in the end of the book.
This conflict happens because when jumping out of a tree into the Devon River Finny suggested that he and gene should jump at the same time. Gene got in his head that Finny was trying to distract him from his studying so that Finny would be better at more things than him “then a second realization broke as clearly and bleakly as dawn on the beach. Finny had deliberately set out to wreck my studies” (Knowles, 45). For a while Finny believed that Gene had not been the cause of his falling out of the tree, even when Gene tried telling him that he had jounced the branch causing Finny to fall and break his leg “I deliberately jounced the limb so you would fall off.” He looked older than I had ever seen him. “Of course you didn’t.” “Yes I did. I did!” ”Of course you didn’t do it. You damn fool. Sit down, you damn fool” (Knowles, 62). Even though there are a few conflicts between Gene and Finny they remained friends throughout the entire book even after Finny realizes that what Gene told him was in fact true “Finny I tried to tell you before, I tried to tell you when I came to Boston that time-“I know, I remember that.” (Knowles, 181) “No I don’t know how to show you, how can I show you, Finny? Tell me how to show you. It was just some ignorance inside me, some crazy thing inside me, something blind, that’s all it was “I believe you. You’ve already shown me and I believe you” (Knowles, 183). So even in the end of the book these two friends remain so whether they have conflicts between them or not even when Finny died in the end of the book.