A Separate Peace Friendship Analysis
In everyone’s life, there is loneliness but that loneliness is always filled up by something. This something is what makes someone happy and not alone. This something is friendship. The book A Separate Peace by John Knowles tells a story of the friendship of two boys attending a private boys school during World War II. These two boys, Gene and Phineas who is also known as Finny, shows an example of friendship. These two boys are best friends that learn from each other and they both have each other during this era but this friendship starts to take a turn for the worse. Friendship is not only filled with happiness, but also it can be filled with distrust. Knowles shows an example of distrust through envy. Envy can poison the heart even the closest of friends. Knowles first uses the use of conflict that can affect friendships. When Gene fails his trigonometry test, he begins to wonder why he
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This is where the birth of their friendship was born and where is was crushed. In the beginning, it was a meeting of two friends to jump off of the tree, then it soon turns to a place of chaos for both Gene and Finny. Gene thought it was all fun and games but then he realizes why is he on this tree (17). Was it to prove he can be like Finny or just to prove otherwise? This was also the tree which gave Gene the idea to ruin Finny’s life by breaking his leg or was it all an accident. From this jealousy, Gene did ruin Finny’s chances of being an olympic athlete. The last form of envy is through Finny’s character which helps increase his jealousy of Finny. Gene likes Finny like a friend that he soon begins to envy Finny of his character. An example is how Finny talks his way out of any situation (25). This makes Gene wonder what makes Finny so special that he wants to be just like Finny. Jealousy grows from the character of a person, which is what Gene was feeling against
This is where the birth of their friendship was born and where is was crushed. In the beginning, it was a meeting of two friends to jump off of the tree, then it soon turns to a place of chaos for both Gene and Finny. Gene thought it was all fun and games but then he realizes why is he on this tree (17). Was it to prove he can be like Finny or just to prove otherwise? This was also the tree which gave Gene the idea to ruin Finny’s life by breaking his leg or was it all an accident. From this jealousy, Gene did ruin Finny’s chances of being an olympic athlete. The last form of envy is through Finny’s character which helps increase his jealousy of Finny. Gene likes Finny like a friend that he soon begins to envy Finny of his character. An example is how Finny talks his way out of any situation (25). This makes Gene wonder what makes Finny so special that he wants to be just like Finny. Jealousy grows from the character of a person, which is what Gene was feeling against