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    During this time period‚ World War II was a conflict with Gene and Finny’s relationship with each other before they even knew it. Finny was the curious‚ athletic one who in the summer always wondered off to see what the older member were doing. Gene was different from Finny. He was the intelligent‚ brilliant boy that was perceived as Finny’s sidekick. Even though they are complete opposites they have a bond that pulls them together. By them having the bond with each other they grow to be best friends

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    Follower Gene looked up to everything Finny did. Whatever Finny did‚ Gene felt that he needed to follow his lead and do the same thing. Finny easily convinced Gene to jump out of the tree after diving in the water. Competitive Gene was both competitive with sports and academics. He was determined to get the best grades and become the top student in his classes. Insecure and Resentful Gene struggled being his own person. He was always looking at things that Finny was doing‚ and was comparing

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    games and cares for no one but himself. Although Alex was selfish in the beginning of the novel‚ his character drastically changes as events keep occur‚ each after another‚ he’s always presented with a new conflict. Whether it be the weather‚ food‚ water‚ warmth‚ somewhere to stay sleep‚ finding the path to Warren‚ Illinois to see his family‚ or his very own survival. Alex has one goal throughout the novel‚ that goal is to survive through everyone thing that is thrown at him. Firstly‚ Alex’s mentality

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    drags them down to an unforgiving fate. While Gene talked to Phineas after the accident‚ “He looked older than I had ever seen him” (Knowles 70). Later on in the book the intensity in how much the boys changed grows after this conflict had come to peace. Gene witnesses the seriousness of their society cause Finny act in a way he had never seen before. The strange way in which they left their innocence behind bringing forth a deeper presence of maturity within

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    Daisy and Tom are old money while Gatsby is new money. Fitzgerald also utilizes water details and imagery to both mirror and foreshadow tragic events in The Great Gatsby. When a body of water is depicted in the novel‚ something dreadful is foreshadowed. Bodies of water appear in different sizes‚ yet they all still foreshadow a tragic event. For example‚ the green light at the end of Daisy’s dock “glittered across the water” (5). This depicts and foreshadows bad relations between Gatsby and Daisy. Furthermore

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    Jealousy doesn’t appear out of the blue. It doesn’t just show up one day. Jealousy is like a cloud. It builds up with “water” over time‚ and eventually downpours onto everyone standing in its way‚ just like in the book written by John Knowles‚ A Separate Peace. The three main characters involved with jealousy are Gene‚ Finny‚ and Brinker. Every riveting scene of jealousy‚ changes the mood of the book completely. Jealousy causes friendships to be destroyed‚ and hatred to form in this novel. Jealousy

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    CHAPTERS 1-5: • Narrator introduces himself as a detective and claims he craves truth but lies • Manipulates his suspects into giving in and giving him the confession he wants • His name is Adam Robert Ryan • He grew up Knocknaree‚ Ireland • Book opens and it is 1984 • His best friends were Peter Savage and Jamie Rowan • Went into the woods to play but did not return in time for tea and as the night dragged on their parents grew worried and finally called the police • Adam Ryan was the only one

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    In "A Separate Peace"‚ John Knowles often uses the main protagonist‚ Gene Forrester‚ to convey crucial information on theme‚ motives‚ and leitmotifs. Knowles masterfully uses Gene’s seemingly indecisive thoughts on war after Finny’s death to convey significant thematic elements of the war. Through Gene’s reflections‚ the reader can perceive Knowles’ view of the war to be one not of hate and disgust‚ but of philosophical ponderings. Despite the atrocities that occur to certain characters in the novel

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    LWFC Essay Do you know how to be happy and powerful ? Laura Esquivel answers it well by represents the answer in her book “ Like Water For Chocolate “. For Tita‚ who is the main character of the book that everything of the book is around and about her life‚ that how she struggles about her boyfriend - Pedro marries her sister - Rosaura‚ worries about life of children of Pedro and Rosaura and John who really loves her. The kitchen she can control of‚ food like Ox-Tail Soup and Turkey Mole with Almonds

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    “’Be seated somewhere; and until you can speak pleasantly‚ remain silent.’” (ch.1 pg. 11) Her elders always had to have authority and discipline her even though she had done no wrong. They were always on her case for the smallest thing. 2. “’Unjust! Unjust!’” (Ch. 2 pg. 21) She was angry that no one had said anything to john even though he had hurt her pretty badly. They always took his side instead of hers even though he would blatantly bully her. 3. “’Surely not! Why‚ she is too old for

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