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    injustices of the government. How ever this is true also when talking about Gene and Finny‚ Gene is consistently trying and failing to find fault in his flawless best friend Phineas. This begs the question of is Gene truly evil? In the novel A Separate Peace‚ Gene is inherently evil‚ because he is mis-trusting‚ self- centered‚ and cannot bring himself to accept the fact that there is such a thing as a true friendship. The fact the Gene is mis-trusting is evident throughout the book. After being best friends

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    A Separate Peace Both the movie and the book share a basic concept of showing an understanding of a story being told. The book does a more in depth explanation and a better job of narrating the story. John Knowles novel‚ A Separate Peace‚ is a story about a destructive and corrupt relationship between Finny and Gene who both attend Devon School around World War ll where most boys went off to fight in the army not realizing there was already a war created within themselves‚ hence the title‚ A

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    Steinbeck should know that there are a lot of similarities and differences compared to the book A Separate Peace by John Knowles. The central message of these two books display some good and bad times of two male friends and the struggle of their friendship. In the book‚ Of Mice and Men‚ George and Lennie have a tough time getting along through their journey of living on a farm. In the book A Separate Peace‚ Gene finds it hard to accept Finny as a true friend‚ since Gene thinks he is invincible. These books

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    1) The main character of the book‚ A Separate Peace‚ is Gene Forrester. He is in the senior class at Devon. He is widely known as the smart student who is always on time to class and always does his school work. Gene is a good choice as the main character of this book‚ but if the author would have chosen Finny as the main character‚ the book would have been different. Finny leaves Devon for an amount of time because he breaks his leg. Therefore‚ if he was the main character‚ the book would not

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    The theme of A Separate peace is self-identity. Gene goes through the same identity crisis‚ but his crisis resolves not around war‚ but Finny. Gene’s admiration for and jealousy of his friend is so great that he literally loses himself in Finny. At the time when Finny is injured‚ he feels that he doesn’t exist. Gene’s personal identity is so wrapped up in Finny that in order to become an individual with his own identity‚ he has to destroy Finny. The first example of identity is at the beginning when

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    A Separate Peace: Three Symbols The three dichotomous symbols in A Separate Peace by John Knowles reinforce the innocence and evil of the main characters‚ Finny and Gene. Beside the Devon School flow two rivers on opposite sides of the school‚ the Naguamsett and the Devon. The Devon provides entertainment and happiness for Gene and Finny as they jump from the tree into the river and hold initiations into the Super Suicide Society of the Summer Session. Finny‚ Gene‚ and their friends use the

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    A Separate Peace was a novel that captures the struggle of a boy trying to find himself during World War II. THe boy‚ Gene Forrester‚ quickly befriends a quirky and jovial kid‚ however the jealously and angst Gene harbors will cause him to make impulsive decisions that will inevitably change him. The novel takes place in Devon prep school in which author‚ John Knowles‚ uses to portray various symbols. Specifically‚ John Knowles uses naturalism to convey a deeper meaning to the old tree and to the

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    something to never forget and he lost his innocence because it was partially his fault. I do believe the writer meant that the enemy was the innocence and he wanted people to think that’s what Gene thought to. He snuck little things into The Separate Peace book about enemy things and some might get confused about who the real enemy is. He talked about how in the

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    you gone through an experience where you lose your innocence. In the novels Lord of the Flies by William Golding‚ and A Separate Peace by John Knowles‚ the main characters of both novels suffer a fall from innocence. Ralph from Lord of the Flies suffers his fall from innocence when he takes part in the brutal‚ gruesome death of Simon. However‚ Gene‚ in A Separate Peace‚ suffers the greatest fall from innocence. Gene subconsciously cripples his best friend Phineas‚ which in the end‚ leads to the death

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    A Separate Peace- Study guide Chapter 1: What two locations- which he describes as “fearful’- does the narrator visit? How does he describe each? The narrator describes the marble staircase and the tree as “fearful” sites‚ he describes the marble staircase as being “unusually hard” and “not very deep” (3)‚ and the tree as having “certain small scars rising along its trunk’ and as the tree being “the giants of your childhood” (6). What is suggested by the tone of the opening section of the novel

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