Summary Of A Separate Peace By John Knowles

“It is only the great hearted who can be true friends. The mean and cowardly can never know what true friendship means.” In other words, this occurred in A Separate Peace, by John Knowles when Gene shook the tree limb and knocked Finny off, Finny was nothing but nice to Gene; Gene Pretreated the friend ship because he was self-centered. For example, when I moved to Tennessee I meet a girl named Grace we were inseparable to each other. Grace and I spent day after day, week after week, at each others houses. Grace and I stayed best friends as we entered middle school still as close as ever until we made it to 8th grade and she got excepted to advanced academy school. At this point I was worried our friendship was going to crumble and it did,
Grace’s had a big family she wasn’t the center of attention in her house but at school she was more then that, she was popular. Grace always claimed to be smarter, prettier and over all a better person then me; with her being my best friend I always believe that she was better then me. Being so young and my brain being able to be manipulated so easy I went along with everything she said and everything she would do. Eventually, We started 9th grade and joined the same school again so we saw each other all day and even had lunch together. I thought with her being back in the same school that things would go back to normal that she would be my best friend again and she did but in time I finally realized how unhealthy the friendship was and that I needed to get out of it. With reality kicking in and punching me around I became depressed and lonely and it didn’t help that Grace was still putting me down and always reminding me how she was better in every