The theme is the brutality of war. When the college friends were discussing about the war they’re about to take part in, Kropp said “Two years of shells and bombs a man won’t peel it off as easy as a sock” (Remarque 87). This shows the brutality of the war because it describes the effect the war puts on people is not easy to forget and for many, it’s permanent. As the friends were taking turns discussing war, Albert explained his view saying “The war has ruined us for everything” (Remarque 87). This shows brutality of war as well because it shows how broad the effect war is on people’s life. The theme of this book makes it a good book because its outcomes relates to the wars going on around the world right now. And it has important message/lesson on life in the front in the Great War, instead of just viewing the honor/patriotic part of the war it mainly focused on a very important part; fear and pressure. Thus the theme of this book is the brutality of war because of the characters description of the life at the front.…
In “A Separate Peace” by John Knowles the reader is left with the question, did Gene Forrester jounce the branch, crippling his roommate in the process, on purpose or accident, trapped in their minds? In 1942 during WW II, Gene Forrester began attending a school in New England called Devon. At Devon, Gene soon finds out his roommate, Phineas also known as Finny, was an extraordinary athlete, quite manipulating and able to talk himself out of any kind of trouble or responsibilities he may have had. This caused Gene to become filled with jealousy and competitiveness because he believed Finny was trying to stay “ahead” of him. This is why the essay will discuss Gene’s jealous and competitive personality which could lead the reader to believe…
This paragraph is about the the courage in Fort Fizzle and Ogel's Tear. both of the paragraphs have a lot of courage. In fort fizzle they are ready to fight but one person had enough courage to speak up and say ¨ if we fight we will lose men but we will also lose our family¨. However in Ogel's Tear the person wanted to make ogel pay for killing innocent people but all she wanted to do was find her family. In conclusion both of the stories have a lot of courage.…
Through the middle/end of the book; Finny and Gene do something different and unexpected, but once they get caught Finny takes care if everything. Say for instance when Finny set cup the obstacle course for gGene to run through around the Headmaster’s house and around most of the field. The Headmaster came out and Finny used his skill and just simply told the Headmaster that they were training for the olympia, in which they were, but they had gotten out of trouble and went on their way. As the reader reads through they will notice how Finny talks his way and others out of trouble in the easiest way possible. There isn't much left to say how the setting revealed Finny’s character, but he is good at what he…
The Brass Buttons on the man joby was talking to, the connection to the battle was it let’s us know that the man was the general because of his different uniform and the different buttons on it. It was another thing about peach fuzz and it was connected by the young men…
In an article published in the Our Brother In Red. newspaper, an author from the Indian Missions Conference penned an article expressing his appreciation and adoration for several of their “friends” from Tennessee, as well as expressing kindness towards baptist ministers in their community in St. Louis (where he mentions that they were detained to). He goes on to express a few outrages that these ministers wish for them to publicly express their sins to the community, when members of the tribe would rather just acknowledge their wrongdoings and push forward to better behavior in their lives. In the context, he is expressing that he and his tribe members had no intention of being a cog in the charges brought upon one of the baptists ministers.…
<br>Although it starts after half the book is finished, one of the major examples of denying the truth in the novel is Finny denying the reality of the war. Though it is disclosed at the end that Finny knew all along about the war, he succeeds, after a little time, in making Gene truly believe in the non-existence of the war (although Gene claims that he did not really believe the story, his behavior around his classmates and his actions say otherwise). The first result we see of this denial is Finny's confession of his bitterness towards the world because of his loss. This destroys the image we have of Finny as a "perfect" person because it shows that he blames the world for his accident. It also stuns Gene so much that he begins to do pull-ups, even though he has never done even ten before. With Finny's verbal help, Gene manages to do thirty. This solidifies the friendship between them. After this…
Gene constantly compares his faults and triumphs to those of Finny. “If I was head of the class on Graduation Day and made a speech and won the Ne Plus Ultra Scholastic Achievement Citation, then we would both have come out on top, we would be even, that was all. We would be even…” (pg. 52). The previous quote shows how Gene sees Finny more as his competition than his friend. Gene believes that all of Finny’s actions are taken to better himself in their competition. Thus, Gene feels that Finny is taking measures to ensure Gene’s failure academically. “Finny had deliberately set out to wreck my studies. That explained blitzball,that explained the nightly meetings of the Super Suicide Society, that explained his insistence that I share all his diversions.” (pg. 53). This supports my previous statement that Gene is paranoid of Finny’s motives. Gene could never believe that his friend simply wants to spend time with him, instead he receives it as an act of…
| This was something Gene had never done. It was a leap of faith with him committing to Finny’s actions. This proves to be a major conflict as Gene would admire to be as good as Finny, but he doesn’t want their friendship to be a competition.…
my studies” (45). Gene’s insecurity was the cause of Finny’s accident and Finny’s death, and as a result, Gene’s sense of peace. He no longer lived in anyone’s shadow, and was able to make peace with himself. At the conclusion of the novel, Gene states, “I never killed anyone and I never developed an intense hatred for the enemy. Because my war ended before I ever put on a uniform; I was on active duty all my time at school; I killed by enemy there” (196). The basic concept of…
I was very interested in the story’s beauty. You gave me a more detailed view on the fact that you can find a friendship in anyone, and it's very important to understand the solidarity and the very magnitude of a good friend. Also, I was very attracted to your use of symbolism from different objects to represent the relations to the characters. The quote, "He had never been jealous of me for a second. Now I knew that there never was and never could have been any rivalry between us. I was not of the same quality as he. I couldn’t stand this... Holding firmly to the trunk, I took a step toward him, and then my knees bent and I jounced the limb. Finny, his balance gone, swung his head around to look at me for an instant with extreme interest, and then he tumbled sideways, broke through the little branches below and hit the bank with a sickening, unnatural thud. It was the first clumsy physical action I had ever seen him make. With unthinking sureness I moved out on the limb and jumped into the river, every trace of my fear of this forgotten" (Knowles 153), signifies the climax of the novel. Gene finally does something to potentially hurt Finny. However, what he realizes is that Finny was never trying to compete with him, that what he truly always wanted was a friendship, nothing more, nothing less. Also, the quote explains that it is Gene's first clumsy action, which makes him seem superior to Finny, but actually isn’t. I believe that this proves that Gene feels extremely lower than Finny, which probably caused him to jounce the limb and…
Finny is very similar to Christ in that he is loved by all and is an all around genuine person. He has no grudges against anyone, and few have any with him. It’s never said but, it’s obvious that finny has superiority over all the boys. Finny is a people’s person. He can talk his way out of any circumstance. On one day he gets out of trouble twice. In the morning he talks his way out of punishment with Mr. Prud’homme in a daring and risky way. Later on in the day, against gene’s prediction “This time he wasn’t going to get away with it” (20), Finny manages to win over the Mr. Patch-Withers. Another argument favoring Finny’s superiority is his competitive side. He beats them in any physical competition and in a modest way too. When he beats the schools swimming record by .7 seconds he says, “I just wanted to see if I could do it. Now I know. But I don’t want to do it in public.” (35) This demonstrates his personality. Fame is not important to Finny to be able to beat the record is enough for him. Finny’s character doesn’t agree with war. It’s pointed out by Gene that Finny would “make a mess, a terrible mess...out of the war.”(182). He says this because Finny is a man who is above all other men. Any normal human would just go with the flow of the war, but Finny is different. His friendly attitude wouldn’t be…
After listening to the book, Mean Gene seemed to be the bully at the school. All the other children once at recess waited to see what, Mean Gene was going do prior to the other children begin to play. For example, once Mean Gene kicked the ball the other children did, once Mean Gene seen other children in her space, she would try to hurt them. Mean Gene seem to be controlling in her performance toward other children. She didn’t have civic character, meaning that she didn’t think how other people would feel if she continued. to treat her peers in a cruel moral, domineer. Her moral character was hurtful, controlling, and hostile to the children on the playground. Before they…
One of the most important differences between Gene and Finny is their views of the world. Gene has a more cynical world view. On the other hand, Finny’s view of the world is very pure and naïve. Finny truly believes that everyone is good in the world. Another thing that sets Gene apart from Finny is their strengths and weaknesses. Gene is one of the top students of his class, while Finny just gets by with below average grades. But what Finny lacks in academic achievements, he makes up for in athletics. Finny also has the natural ability to lead others and has a non conforming attitude, whereas Gene is follower and has a more conforming attitude.…
Hafer said in the critical analysis, “Irony in The Red Badge of Courage”, “a badge of shame or absurdity.” The youth’s red badge is received by a fellow solider when the youth grabs him to find out information, which he would not have needed if he chose to stay fight; however, he finally obtained the “red badge of courage” he so desperately wanted, but in an ironic way because no courage is involved since he was not in battle. There is no honor to the badge when received liked that. When the youth returns his regiment by the end of the night he feels no true shame because he not worried that will suspect his desertions because of his injury. He is back to heroic thinking. Micheal Schneider said in his critical analysis, “Mythic Elements of Quest-Romance”, “When he imagines himself as a hero, he runs from the enemy charge; then reclaims his shattered self-esteem only through…his wound.” Henry goes though up’s and downs of confidence in ironic ways as he does the opposite of he thinks and feels heroic when he was…