Character Analysis: A Separate Peace
Reaching a separate peace.
A separate peace is finding peace in one's own self. The innocence of Gene, Finny, and Leper will be obliterated so they can achieve peace. Growing to adulthood forces them to ether choose evolve or perish. “They were preparing it, if you see what I mean, for the future. Everything has to evolve or else it perishes.” (Knowles 125). It show how the boys achieve a separate peace or died evolving to adulthood. Achieving peace one’s own self is essential to go on with their life without regrets.
Gene often finds himself seeing Finny’s crazy vision of relaxation and how he would daydream about the 1944 Olympics. “I spent as much time as I could alone in our room, trying to empty my mind of every thought, to forget where I was, even who I was. […] I decided to put on his clothes. [… ]I had no idea why this gave me such intense relief, but it seemed, standing there in Finny’s triumphant shirt, that I would never stumble through the confusions of my own character again.” (Knowles 62). This quotation show that Gene feel guilt over the accident Finny had so he abandon his identity and become Finny to lose the guilt momentarily. Finny death changes gene key motive. Gene recognized the fear and the senseless need to fighting enemy that protrude over his life. “I was ready for the war, now …show more content…
For Gene he was only able to find peace is when Finny dies and with his death he took Gene’s hatred and fear. Finny see the evil in the world and Gene’s intention in his accident and achieves a separate peace by dying. Leper goes through loss of innocence and fail to fit in the army. Leper achieves peace by going insane. Achieving peace is not a simple thing to do to achieve it most of the time changing lifestyle to achieve it, but if u are afraid to change the only way to achieve is to
A separate peace is finding peace in one's own self. The innocence of Gene, Finny, and Leper will be obliterated so they can achieve peace. Growing to adulthood forces them to ether choose evolve or perish. “They were preparing it, if you see what I mean, for the future. Everything has to evolve or else it perishes.” (Knowles 125). It show how the boys achieve a separate peace or died evolving to adulthood. Achieving peace one’s own self is essential to go on with their life without regrets.
Gene often finds himself seeing Finny’s crazy vision of relaxation and how he would daydream about the 1944 Olympics. “I spent as much time as I could alone in our room, trying to empty my mind of every thought, to forget where I was, even who I was. […] I decided to put on his clothes. [… ]I had no idea why this gave me such intense relief, but it seemed, standing there in Finny’s triumphant shirt, that I would never stumble through the confusions of my own character again.” (Knowles 62). This quotation show that Gene feel guilt over the accident Finny had so he abandon his identity and become Finny to lose the guilt momentarily. Finny death changes gene key motive. Gene recognized the fear and the senseless need to fighting enemy that protrude over his life. “I was ready for the war, now …show more content…
For Gene he was only able to find peace is when Finny dies and with his death he took Gene’s hatred and fear. Finny see the evil in the world and Gene’s intention in his accident and achieves a separate peace by dying. Leper goes through loss of innocence and fail to fit in the army. Leper achieves peace by going insane. Achieving peace is not a simple thing to do to achieve it most of the time changing lifestyle to achieve it, but if u are afraid to change the only way to achieve is to